• Tether launches gold-backed cryptocurrency
    All that is gold does not glitter—particularly the Tether Gold stablecoin. (Photo: Linda Hamilton via Pixabay)
    Cryptocurrencies,  Tether

    Tether launches gold-backed cryptocurrency

    The new Tether Gold tokens will be backed by one fine troy ounce of gold stored in a secure Swiss vault, the company said

    January 24, 2020 /

    Tether launched a gold-backed cryptocurrency, tether gold (XAUT), that can be redeemed for one fine troy ounce of gold stored in a secure Swiss vault—assuming you can redeem 430 tokens currently worth about $670,000 at once.

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  • Pornhub logo
    PayPal won't let us pay you in real dollars, so here's some tether. (Photo: Pornhub)
    adblock,  Cryptocurrencies,  Tether

    Pornhub now accepts tether for model payments

    The world’s biggest porn site now accepts the world’s biggest stablecoin 

    January 23, 2020 /

    Visitors to Pornhub, which boasted 42 billion visits in 2019, can now pay live webcam models with tether via the Tron wallet, the site announced yesterday. The move follows PayPal’s announcement in November that it would stop supporting payments for the hugely popular pornographic website.

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  • Calling the (un)caped crypto crusaders! (via Pixabay)
    Calling the (un)caped crypto crusaders! (via Pixabay)
    Cryptocurrencies,  Technology

    Student crypto crime-fighting league forms

    Cryptocurrency intelligence firm CipherTrace will provide education and tracking tools to students for hands-on training solving real thefts and scams

    January 13, 2020 /

    CipherTrace is working with the student-founded Blockchain Acceleration Foundation in California and Mexico and several universities to create the CipherTrace Defenders League.

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  • PewDiePie and Justin Sun. A perfect storm of hype (via DLive, Tron).
    A perfect storm of hype (via DLive, Tron).
    Alt coins

    Justin Sun’s BitTorrent buys DLive streaming platform

    The Tron founder said that PewDiePie-favored DLive will abandon its Lino blockchain in favor of Tron, used by decentralized peer-to-peer service BitTorrent

    December 31, 2019 /

    Tron founder and CEO Justin Sun’s decentralized peer-to-peer filesharing network BitTorrent has bought DLive, the blockchain-based livestreaming home of world No. 2 YouTuber PewDiePie.

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