Court Reconsiders Ruling After SEC Proves Blockvest Tokens Are Securities
After failing to convince a federal court regarding the nature of Blockvest tokens in the previous hearing, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally convinced the same judge that these tokens are securities. [...]
ICO Investments Fall 95% in 10 Months
Interest in token sales has dropped dramatically over the past 10 months, with investment falling almost 95 percent. Nevertheless, according to a new study, the ICO market is still significantly larger than two years ago. [...]
How Blockchain Crowdfunding Could Soon Kill Off The ICO
The words Blockchain and ICO might go together like sausage and mash but there's a good reason, it generated nearly $8 billion in funds raised in 2018. Impressive but still only a tiny fraction of [...]
ICO Raised With ‘No Strings Attached’ Led to Massive Abuse – iAngels Exec [Interview]
Bitcoinist spoke with Shelly Hod Moyal, Founding Partner and Co-CEO of iAngels, on why the ICO market popped and where the cryptocurrency industry is headed next. A Hunter College and Kellogg MBA graduate, Shelly is [...]
Analysis: Hackers Liquidated $3.2 Million in Tokens From Cryptopia Hack
$3.2 million in Ethereum and ERC20 tokens stolen from the Cryptopia cryptocurrency exchange have been liquidated
‘Swiss Leaks’ HSBC Whistleblower Plans to Launch ‘Clean, Ethical’ Crypto Token
Hervé Falciani, a whistleblower convicted of purportedly one of the largest banking leaks, plans to launch an ethical cryptocurrency to combat money-laundering and fraud
Swiss Stock Exchange to Launch Its Own Security Token This Year
Switzerland’s Stock Exchange (SIX) wants to have its own security token offering in the second half of 2019 alongside the launch of its SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) platform for trading digital assets. SIX To Launch [...]
BitTorrent Partners with CoinPayments to Launch Support for Native BTT Token
Peer-to-peer torrent client BitTorrent has announced that its native TRON-based token, BTT, is now supported by CoinPayments’ crypto payments gateway
Basic Attention Token Price Surges Following Coinbase “Promotion”
Even though most cryptocurrency markets are not out of the woods yet, there is some interesting momentum to take note of. As far as the Basic Attention Token price is concerned, things are not looking [...]
Infinite Token Printing Bug Fixed By Zcash Team … About 4 Months Ago
The counterfeiting vulnerability was initially discovered 11 months ago at the 2018 Financial Cryptography Conference.