If appointed, his tenure at the SEC would likely be considerably different than Jay Clayton’s, whose legacy has been tainted by a considerable lack of regulatory certainty surrounding digital assets—much to the exasperation of the cryptocurrency innovators and investors, as well as some regulators like SEC Commissioner Hester “Crypto Mom” Peirce.
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Top universities partner with privacy-focused blockchain
Berkeley, Cornell and MIT, alongside British universities in Oxford and Cambridge, will build apps and help govern the Oasis Network
The Oasis Network, which has a stated goal of giving back users control and ownership over their personal information, said the program has more than 20 founding members.
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Crypto hackers often walk around wearing hoodies and holding useless tokens of fake bitcoin around just in case they get photographed (via Pixabay).MIT’s Stuart Madnick says blockchain’s biggest strengths can also be weaknesses
Poloniex exchange lenders lost $14.4 million to flash crash decentralization made possible
An MIT professor’s June 6 warning about some of blockchain’s vulnerabilities came too late for margin lenders on U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, who lost nearly $14.4 million in bitcoin to a flash crash early last week.
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Coinbase CEO speculates on QuandrigaCX management coverup
Analysis points to possible trouble long before the CEO’s death
As the QuadrigaCX saga continues to play out, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has jumped into the fray. The chief executive at the largest U.S. exchange suspects that management at its largest Canadian competitor is using its founder’s death to cover up what could be a massive fraud.
