Stories by Guillermo Jimenez
VanEck, SolidX pull the plug on Bitcoin ETF proposal
The VanEck, SolidX super team has withdrawn its proposal for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), according to an SEC filing issued earlier today. The VanEck investment firm and blockchain st...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Blockstack nets $23 million in historic SEC-qualified token sale
Who says playing by the rules doesn’t pay. Blockstack, the first crypto startup to receive the SEC’s blessing to conduct an ICO-like offering of its blockchain-based tokens to anyone in the wo...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Blockchain music-streaming service Audius gears up for public beta
A new streaming service with its sights set on making the middlemen of the music biz obsolete is inching closer toward its goal of disrupting the Spotifys and SoundClouds of the world. After a...
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Guillermo Jimenez
SEC targets blockchain healthcare company over unregistered $6 million ICO
A blockchain healthcare company has settled charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over an allegedly unregistered ICO that raised $6.3 million, according to a statement on Mo...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Binance unveils long list of potential tokens to offer on U.S. exchange
Binance might be having trouble with hackers abroad, but it’s coming out swinging in the U.S. The U.S. division of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume today revealed the exte...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Why a proof of stake blockchain alliance is lobbying Congress
U.S. lawmakers struggle to understand the blockchain industry. But some blockchains are more misunderstood than others, according to the latest crypto-focused lobbying group taking the fight t...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Coinbase opens up Tezos (XTZ) trading for all U.S. customers, except New York
The wait is over, Tezos fans. Three long, agonizing days after first adding Tezos (XTZ) support for its pro customers, Coinbase has now enabled XTZ trading for all of its users. As usual, howe...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Gods Unchained levels up, hires former Magic: The Gathering executive
Can Chris Clay recreate the Magic for blockchain gaming? The former game director for Magic: The Gathering Arena—a digital collectible card game based on the original table-top craze—is joinin...
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Guillermo Jimenez
The Fed’s new real-time payments system is no threat to Bitcoin
The Federal Reserve intends to create a real-time payments system for banks to send money between themselves. The offering will be operational sometime after 2023, and available for transactio...
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Tim Copeland, Guillermo Jimenez
Coinbase mulls adding Dash, Cosmos, Harmony, and more to its crypto exchange
Coinbase customers might soon have a host of new cryptocurrencies in which to invest and trade. Fresh off adding Tezos (XTZ) to its pro trading platform, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency...
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Guillermo Jimenez
How to sell a stake in your home via the Ethereum blockchain
A Silicon Valley startup has developed a new way for homeowners to cash in on sky-rocketing property values in prime real-estate markets—without selling the home or taking on any debt. It’s ca...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Helium’s trial balloon: A new peer-to-peer wireless network goes live in Austin
There’s a new way for Internet-of-Things devices to connect to the digital world—a low-power, wide-area network that no single entity controls, called Helium. Nicknamed “the people’s network,”...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Kin adds music-streaming service MonkingMe to its lineup of apps
Barcelona-based blockchain startup MonkingMe is joining the Kin family. The music-streaming app company announced on Tuesday that it is integrating its platform with the Kin cryptocurrency, en...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Coinbase is bringing Tezos (XTZ) cryptocurrency to its pro trading platform
Tezzies hodlers, rejoice. Coinbase has just given XTZ its blessing. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange announced today that it is soon adding Tezos (XTZ) on its Coinbase Pro platf...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Judge delays ruling on Bitfinex case, extending injunction for 90 days
The New York Supreme Court will take a further 90 days to deliberate over whether cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex ought to hand over documents to the New York Attorney General. But despite th...
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Ben Munster, Guillermo Jimenez
BitTorrent founder says Justin Sun is skipping out on paying for acquisition
Another day, another strange turn in the saga of Justin Sun. The latest controversy stems from a statement on Twitter from BitTorrent creator—and current CEO of cryptocurrency startup Chia—Bra...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Justin Sun’s credibility problem
Are Chinese authorities preventing Tron CEO Justin Sun from leaving that country? Or is he in San Francisco healing from kidney stones, as he and his PR team insist? No one seems to know for s...
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Shuyao Kong, Guillermo Jimenez
Justin Sun’s $4.6 million lunch with Warren Buffett is off (for now)
A meeting of crypto minds with one of the world’s foremost business investors in Warren Buffett is not to be—at least not yet. The Tron Foundation, the nonprofit behind the Tron blockchain net...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Bitcoin peer-to-peer trading is on the rise says new report
It’s been a good year so far for Bitcoin trading, according to a new report from peer-to-peer exchange Paxful. The average monthly trading volume for Bitcoin on Paxful in the first half of 201...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Bitcoin exchange owner gets 14 months in jail for lying about hack to SEC
A crypto criminal case that dates back to 2013 has finally come to an end. The founder and operator of the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Bitfunder, Jon Montroll, was sentenced yesterday to 14 ...
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Guillermo Jimenez