US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii is running for president of the United States in 2020. In December 2017, Gabbard bought Litecoin and Ether at the height of the crypto bull market, according to federal filings. “I have decided to run and …
As CCN recently reported, Ripple and Stellar co-founder Jed McCaleb took time out of a recent interview to denigrate Cryptocurrency TRON. Calling it “garbage,” McCaleb has apparently set off a minor firestorm of reactions on Twitter. Said firestorm in…
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has become the second congressperson to disclose cryptocurrency investments, reporting holdings of both ethereum and litecoin. Virginia Republican Robert Goodlatte became the first lawmaker to disclose cryptocurrency hold…
Over the weekend, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro began broad economic changes that ultimately ties Venezuela’s currency to the contentious ‘oil-backed’ cryptocurrency Petro. As CCN reported, President Maduro announced the plan la…
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced this that the Petro, an oil-backed cryptocurrency that the country launched to work around sanctions in February, will become an official currency for the state oil company PDVSA. By Monday next week, the P…
“I am merely saying that the current constitution is not wise.” With that comment, Daniel Larimer — the creator of EOS — proposed a fundamental restructuring of the fifth-largest cryptocurrency’s on-chain governance model. That governance m…
After just one week of the EOS mainnet going live, the community is questioning its decentralized nature. Early last week, the network’s 21 block producers who verify transactions and validate blocks froze seven EOS accounts allegedly belonging to thie…
“Consensus by conference call” — that’s how one critic characterized the on-chain governance model employed by the nascent EOS network in the wake of several high profile incidents involving block producers. Most recently, the network’s 21 block …
Kevin Warsh, a former U.S. Federal Reserve governor, recently told The New York Times the Fed should give serious consideration to releasing a government-sponsored cryptocurrency — commonly called a “FedCoin.” Warsh is among a group o…
Ethereum’s most well-known founder and, perhaps, most benevolent influence-wielder is starting April off the way he normally does: cracking jokes. But after the joke itself played out on Github via Buterin’s Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) #960 — t…
David Seaman, a crypto blogger, has written a blog in the Huffington Post saying that sources have told him authorities are examining Barry Silbert’s role with Ethereum Classic, which Seaman considers a scam. In another Huffington Post blog, Seaman claims CoinDesk, which Silbert’s Digital Currency Group has acquired, is promoting Ethereum Classic. In the interest […]
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Digital currency exchange Coinbase has revealed its stance with the Ethereum hard fork, stating that it has no plans to support Ethereum Classic, the spin-off blockchain based on the consensus and protocols of the original Ethereum blockchain. In an announcement today, bitcoin and ether exchange Coinbase has revealed that its recently launched support for ether, […]
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In a recent essay, Bittorrent founder Bram Cohen lays out his interpretation of recent Bitcoin projects such as Bitcoin Classic. He labels the project purely marketing and hints what they are creating is a form of an alternative digital currency, also known as an alt-coin. This, a controversial opinion in Bitcoin circles, has major […]
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Ada Colau, Barcelona’s new mayor, has made good on her campaign promise to create a local digital currency to help simulate local commerce and spending within the city limits, along with other benefits. The city of Barcelona, capital of the Catalonia – an autonomous community in Spain is in currently the throes of a heightened local movement to break away from Spain. Although the Spanish constitution explicitly disallows any region in the country to separate, pro-independence parties won a clear majority of seats in Catalonia’s parliament during the recent local elections. In a coalition, the victorious parties have sought to […]
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A year on from the national referendum where Scotland rejected independence from the UK – leaving the pound sterling to continue as its national currency, a member of Parliament from the Scottish National Party (SNP) issued a rallying call to his party and the country to begin experimenting with digital currency. George Kerevan, MP for East Lothian and a member of the SNP called for the country to start experimenting with digital currency and spoke about the British pound not being “the be-all and end-all,” insisting that a new digital currency could help Scotland reach beyond its reliance on the […]
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