Crypto is a robust intellectual experiment that could fail, but it probably won’t. That’s the assessment of Argentine tech entrepreneur Wences Casares, the founder of Xapo, a bitcoin wallet provider based in Palo Alto, California. “We…
The truth is that anything connected to the internet can be hacked. However, hacking wasn’t always a problem. The History of Air Gap Technology Data used to be held offline, in what’s now known as cold storage. Data on external paper cards, then moved …
A reckoning coming to the cryptocurrency markets, an “extinction-level event” that’s poised to wipe out 90 percent of the more than 1,800 coins and tokens that aren’t named bitcoin. That’s the prognostication of Xapo Presi…
Metropolitan Bank, a commercial bank based in New York, has revealed that more than 15 percent of the bank’s deposits are made by cryptocurrency investors and clients, and that the bank is willing to continue its support for digital asset traders. In a…
Cryptocurrency wallet and vault Xapo is the latest recipient of New York’s ‘BitLicense’, arguably the strictest state law governing the crypto sector, from the state’s financial regulator. In an announcement on Thursday, the New York Department of Fina…
Ted Rogers, the president at Xapo, a widely utilized cryptocurrency wallet and vault, has revealed that the platform has activated Segregated Witness (SegWit), the scaling solution developed by the Bitcoin Core development team. SegWit Adoption and Imp…
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Xapo, a bitcoin wallet that claims the largest capitalization in the bitcoin industry and a reputation for not fearing controversy, has jumped into Argentina’s battle with Uber by allowing Uber Argentina to accept Xapo card payments. Uber sent a tweet on July 3 saying “Pay your trips with Bitcoin! Loading your card @Xapo obtains a $ […]
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LifeLock says that Xapo CEO Wences Casares developed Xapo using LifeLock’s resources. The background is that Caseres previously ran Lemon, a digital wallet start-up that was later sold to LifeLock at the end of 2013. Casares and most of the Lemon team became LifeLock employees. LifeLock claims that Casares started Xapo by “using a product developed by Lemon employees, in Lemon’s facilities, on Lemon’s computers, and on Lemon’s dime.” Casares initially pushed to have the case thrown out, but a judge in Silicon Valley disagrees, and the lawsuit against current Xapo CEO will move forward. The case could have serious ramifications […]
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Lance Parker has always had an interest in space. He was an early adopter of Bitcoin, having mined it in the early days until it seemed the difficulty had gotten the better of him. He’s run a number of different companies since graduating college, notably a mobile security company called iTag, which grew to 50,000 […]
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Lance Parker has always had an interest in space. He was an early adopter of Bitcoin, having mined it in the early days until it seemed the difficulty had gotten the better of him. He’s run a number of different companies since graduating college, notably a mobile security company called iTag, which grew to 50,000 […]
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Maybe you haven’t heard of Taringa! but that’s about to change. Think of Taringa! as a combination of Facebook and Reddit for Latin America. Based in Argentina, Taringa! claims a unique user base of 75 million, second only to Facebook itself in the region among social networks. And they have caught the bitcoin bug, with […]
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