Stories by Guillermo Jimenez
Bitcoin bulls are borrowing big to bet on the crypto market
Sunny days in crypto are here again, but just how hot is it going to get? Crazy, red, speculative hot, say the folks at BabelFinance. The Hong Kong-based crypto finance institution, formerly k...
News>Business
Guillermo Jimenez
Coinbase will now pay you Dai to learn about the stablecoin
Coinbase, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, announced today that it has added the Ethereum-backed stablecoin Dai to its Earn program. Coinbase users will now be able to earn...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Guillermo Jimenez
SEC v Kik will end with certainty, but will it bring clarity?
It’s been billed as the cryptocurrency trial of the century—the mother of all digital-asset disputes. And the outcome could determine the future of token-based fundraising, as well as the fate...
News>Business
Guillermo Jimenez
5 ways you can still raise cash for your crypto startup
Raising money for your blockchain or cryptocurrency-based startup has never been harder. The last few years of regulatory uncertainty, ICO exit scams, and SEC enforcement actions have seen to ...
Startup 3.0
Guillermo Jimenez
Lucid Sight boldly goes where no blockchain gaming company has gone before
The final frontier meets the technological bleeding edge. In a move that makes all the sense, blockchain gamers will soon be able to buy (and presumably trade) tokenized versions of Star Trek ...
News>Business
Guillermo Jimenez
Austin-based blockchain startups join forces to find health care solutions
As Americans continue to struggle with the rising cost of health care, and service providers grapple with heightened privacy and data-management concerns, could a little blockchain be the cure...
News>Technology
Guillermo Jimenez
Coinbase opens up EOS trading to all U.S. customers, except those in New York
Coinbase announced today that the EOS cryptocurrency will now be available to buy, sell, and trade for its retail customers across its many platforms, including Coinbase.com and its Android an...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Guillermo Jimenez
Unstoppable Domains raises $4 million to make “uncensorable websites” a reality
Imagine a digital world in which no website can ever be taken down—and no content can ever be censored—by anyone other than the web domain’s owner. That’s the vision behind Unstoppable Domains...
News>Business
Guillermo Jimenez
SEC targets yet another ICO: a diamond-backed “ponzi scheme” Argyle Coin
Diamonds may be forever, but the ICOs of yesteryear are nearing the end of their run. Argyle Coin, which pitched itself as a “diamond-backed cryptocurrency,” is allegedly at the center of a $3...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Guillermo Jimenez
SEC again delays ruling on VanEck Bitcoin ETF, surprising no one
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took its sweet time on this one, but the result on the the latest Bitcoin ETF proposal was the same—which was no result at all. On Monday, the SEC o...
News>Business
Guillermo Jimenez
What 60 Minutes got wrong about Bitcoin
Bitcoin is having itself a moment. Again. Bouncing back from the depths of crypto winter, and now hovering around nearly $8,000 per coin, the king of crypto got itself 15 minutes of solid expo...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Guillermo Jimenez
DOJ wants the book thrown at confessed ICO scammer
Three years hard time. That’s the fate of a confessed ICO fraudster, if the U.S. government has its way. Maksim Zaslavskiy, the man behind “cryptocurrency” projects REcoin and Diamond Reserve ...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Guillermo Jimenez
Binance releases details on its next multi-million-dollar IEO
Binance is back in business. After a hiccup last week, suffering the sixth-largest hack of a cryptocurrency exchange in history, Binance has reopened its doors, and it’s coming out guns blazin...
News>Business
Guillermo Jimenez
Gab is serious about forking Keybase, replacing Stellar with Bitcoin
Gab’s plans to fork over Silicon Valley projects did not end with just Brave. The “free speech social media network” is evolving, and Gab is taking a whole new approach to its business: find o...
News>Technology
Guillermo Jimenez
Crypto traders get access to FDIC-insured accounts through Safra Bank
The risky world of cryptocurrency trading may soon be getting appreciably less risky—at least when cash is involved. SFOX, a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency prime brokerage, announced today...
News>Business
Guillermo Jimenez
Comedian Kevin Hart faces multi-million dollar ICO lawsuit
An ICO investor walks into a courtroom—stop us if you’ve heard this one. Last November, a group of investors in Flik—a blockchain-based funding and distribution network for the entertainment i...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Guillermo Jimenez
Rocket Lawyer plans to bring blockchain to millions of customers
How do you get millions of customers to use your blockchain-based product? Make the technology “invisible” and build something people actually need—like access to legal services. Rocket Lawyer...
News>Business
Guillermo Jimenez
Will Ethereum be the one blockchain to rule them all?
Can Ethereum maintain its position as the leading smart contract platform in the nascent blockchain industry? Panelists engaged in a fiery discussion to consider that very possibility on Frida...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Guillermo Jimenez
Bitfinex IEO token LEO shares its name with Crypto Capital shell company
Is it just us, or is it a little weird that Bitfinex’s new exchange token, called the LEO—meant to raise $1 billion in an IEO to replace funds “lost” to Crypto Capital—bears the same name as a...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Guillermo Jimenez
Craig Wright ordered to reveal bitcoin addresses, but don’t hold your breath
The dispute over 1.1 million of “Satoshi’s bitcoins” took an interesting turn over the weekend, with a judge ordering self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright to produce documents related...
News>Cryptocurrencies
Guillermo Jimenez