New York University professor and staunch bitcoin critic Nouriel Roubini is threatening to sue BitMEX, a global cryptocurrency exchange. The renowned economist lambasted Arthur Hayes, co-founder & CEO of BitMEX, for releasing a doctored video of a debate featuring the two. He alleged that Hayes, who owns the rights to the footage, neither permitted the…
The first day of the Ripple’s two-day blockchain conference saw some significant updates. As predicted, the San Francisco event turned out to be the launchpad of Ripple’s cross-border payment system, xRapid. CEO Brad Garlinghouse took the stage to announce that xRapid will go live for the first time with three mainstream financial institutions. Payment providers Mercury…
The second and the final day of Ripple’s Swell conference maintained the excitement of the previous day. The San Francisco event, which on the first day saw former US President Bill Clinton taking the stage to speak about crypto revolution, and the launch of Ripple’s much-awaited xRipple cross-border payment service, shifted its focus to blockchain…
A special collaboration between a group of artists on a 2017 digital original re-worked to an ass-kicking motion shape! Tuesday 10th, at 9 PM CET the motion version of my 2017 art piece “T(r)opical” will hit the Bitcoin Live show with Jan & Nicholaas Dalmulder. The digital still original has been reworked, with the help…
The day is here. In a few hours, El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law goes into effect. We will have the first real-world example of a whole nation using the hardest money ever created as legal tender. And, how is the Bitcoin community celebrating? Stack sats, obviously. The order is for everyone to buy $30 worth of…
As Kenn Bosak mentions in the launch podcast we did together with Brittany Kaiser; you must have lived under a rock not to know who Brittany is. Her life story juxtaposes big data, blockchain, information security, Facebook, and now, art about it all to be tokenized. If we want protection, we need to start thinking…
Is this what Elon Musk wanted? To constantly be present on every type of news outlet? The bastion of quality journalism known as Page Six reports that the billionaire, his rockstar girlfriend, and musical guest Miley Cirrus went to a Dogecoin-themed party. This was after Musk’s infamous Saturday Night Live hosting gig, a night that…
Bitcoin prices declined for the sixth day in a row Tuesday, falling about 12% from the same time last week. BTC/USD fell to a low of $37,358.00 to begin the trading week after reaching a high of $39,394.44 on Sunday. BTC fell to its lowest level since February 4 as it approached its long-term support…
Bitcoin plunges below $40,000 in the early hours of the weekend and proceeded to backpedal in the face of escalating tensions on the Ukraine-Russia border, not to mention ongoing inflationary unease. At the time of writing, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency was trading near $38,700, down 3.4% in the previous 24 hours and at its…
Bitcoin price, in the face of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, is shedding 0.7% of its value and is currently trading at $43,352 on Coingecko charts Thursday, retreating from the $47,000 level it hit on January 1. Ethereum (ETH), the second most popular cryptocurrency also, is also down 2.14% to $2,873. The world’s most…