• Call in the experts: Jeremy Allaire of Circle, Rebecca Nelson of The Blockchain Association, and Mehrsa Baradaran of the University of California, Irvine School of Law before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, July 30, 2019.
    Call in the experts: Jeremy Allaire of Circle, Rebecca Nelson of The Blockchain Association, and Mehrsa Baradaran of the University of California, Irvine School of Law before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, July 30, 2019.
    Bitcoin,  Cryptocurrencies,  Libra,  Politics,  United States

    Analysis: Cryptocurrency experts tell Senate innovation requires regulation

    In the wake of Facebook’s Libra plan, a Senate Banking Committee hearing shows Congress getting serious about cryptocurrency regulation

    July 31, 2019 /

    A week after the U.S. government’s inaction on cryptocurrency regulation drove Jeremy Allaire to move most of his company out of the U.S., the Circle chairman and CEO told congress why.

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  • Edward Woodford, CEO of Seed CX
    United States

    Seed CX exchange wins New York BitLicense

    The digital asset exchange focuses on institutional investors, not the retail clients fueling the current cryptocurrency boom

    July 15, 2019 /

    SeedCX, a cryptocurrency exchange for large institutional investors, announced on July 15 that it has received a pair of virtual currency BitLicenses from the New York Department of Financial Services.

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  • Stanley Yong, IBM's Global Lead on Central Bank Digital Currency Solutions, is leaving the company.
    People,  Technology

    EXCLUSIVE: Stanley Yong, IBM CTO, departs Big Blue

    After Jesse Lund exit, a blow to IBM blockchain ambition and Stellar partnership

    June 14, 2019 /

    Just two weeks after IBM’s blockchain ambitions fell into doubt with the mysterious departure of Jesse Lund, Big Blue is set to lose another key advocate for the space. Modern Consensus has exclusively learned that Stanley Yong, the company’s Global Lead on Central Bank Digital Currency Solutions, is leaving the company.

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    Here's a chart of GBP/USD but it looks like a chart of anything that can be charted (via Pixabay).
    Cryptocurrencies

    CryptoCompare starts ranking good, bad, and ugly exchanges

    Top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges announced after grading after the data and indices provider studied more than 100 trading platforms worldwide

    June 12, 2019 /

    Calling the cryptocurrency trading business ripe with fraud and manipulation, cryptocurrency data and indices provider CryptoCompare has begun rating the reliability of exchanges.

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