Stories by 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 ...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Guillermo Jimenez
Donald Trump blasts Bitcoin, Facebook’s Libra in Twitter tirade
President Donald Trump is angry. And he’s taken to Twitter to let the world know how he feels, for a change. This time, cryptocurrency has got his goat—specifically, Bitcoin and Facebook’s Lib...
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Guillermo Jimenez
SEC greenlights a second crypto offering: YouNow’s Props tokens
“You get a Reg A+ token offering, and you get a Reg A+ offering—everybody gets a Reg A+ token offering!”—Oprah didn’t say this. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has just handed out ...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Blockstack’s token offering is historic, but its dance with the SEC is far from over
Make no mistake. Blockstack receiving the SEC’s approval to sell its blockchain-based tokens to mom and pop investors is a big deal. But the crypto startup’s journey to achieving regulatory co...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Fed Chairman: Facebook’s Libra “cannot go forward” without addressing serious concerns
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has had more time to think about Facebook’s Libra project and is now singing a much different tune. On Wednesday, Powell testified before the House Finan...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Bram Cohen at last releases his Chia Network’s “green paper”
Ever since Bram Cohen first ventured into the world of cryptocurrency, fans of decentralized technologies have eagerly awaited what the creator of the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol would de...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Coinbase-backed blockchain game Gods Unchained releases public beta
Imagine a modern version of Magic: The Gathering, but on the Ethereum blockchain, and that’s what you get with Gods Unchained. The competitive, crypto collectible card game has been in closed ...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Celer Network is now live, and it’s coming for the blockchain gaming throne
Celer Network is open for business. The Singapore-based blockchain startup today announced the public launch of its alpha mainnet, Cygnus. And the self-professed “most advanced layer-2 scalin...
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Guillermo Jimenez
MetaMask’s “bridge to the decentralized web” is finally coming to mobile
Nine long months of anticipation will soon come to an end for users of MetaMask, the primary gateway to the Ethereum blockchain. MetaMask, backed by Ethereum incubator ConsenSys (which also fu...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Maduro’s scheme to give away petro to Venezuela’s youth is good for bitcoin
The government of Venezuela will not let its petro cryptocurrency dreams die. And Venezuela’s embattled president, Nicolás Maduro, now has a new plan to get his state-backed crypto into the h...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Jose Antonio Lanz
Gab is decentralizing, raising $10 million in Series A powered by bitcoin
You don’t have to like it. But there’s nothing you can do to stop it. Gab, the free-speech maximalist, social media network is decentralizing—relaunching its platform for its members on the Fo...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Crypto exchange Coinbase sued for patent infringement
In an apparent first in the world of crypto, U.S.-based exchange Coinbase has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly violating a registered patent. Anuwave, LLC, an affiliate of the Texas-based...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Bitcoin awareness is soaring in America says new report
Coinbase released its United States of Crypto report today, and the state of bitcoin in the Union is… bullish. Awareness of Bitcoin is on the rise among the U.S. population, according to Ameri...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Crypto startup Celer partners with Wyre to make its dapps feel more like apps
San Francisco-based blockchain startup Celer Network is teaming up with crypto payments provider Wyre to help minimize the friction users typically experience when interacting with dapps, it a...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Kleiman v Craig Wright is careening towards a showdown in Florida
It’s cryptoland’s white Bronco, drudging down an L.A. interstate—we just can’t turn away. Craig Wright, who claims to be the creator of Bitcoin, is heading to a Florida courtroom on Friday, wh...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Opera releases crypto-ready mobile browser for iPhone
There are more than a billion Apple devices in use throughout the world, and now, they’ll all be just one download away from the decentralized web. After months of teasing, the Norwegian softw...
News>Technology
Guillermo Jimenez
This new cryptocurrency lottery is impossible to lose
Anyone who’s ever bought a lottery ticket knows the feeling: the odds are so slim, just breaking even is a small victory in itself. Now, a new cryptocurrency-based game of chance wants to help...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Blockchain startup Audius aims to make dapps easier to use with Hedgehog
Ask any blockchain developer or crypto entrepreneur what keeps the industry from breaking through to the mainstream and most will tell you the same thing: dapps have a usability problem. User ...
News>Technology
Guillermo Jimenez
First batch of “uncensorable” blockchain web domains set to be auctioned
Uncensorable websites are inching closer to being unleashed unto the world. And the demand for a top-level “unstoppable” web domain is growing, according to the eponymous San Francisco-based s...
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Guillermo Jimenez
Facebook discussed Libra plans with Fed, bankers not “too concerned”
The bankers have taken a look at Facebook’s Libra, and the response is a resounding “Meh.” U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that Facebook discussed its plans to la...
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Guillermo Jimenez