By day, Ilya Lichtenstein is the founder of blockchain start-up Endpass, a crypto wallet to "stop fraud and terrorism" in the global fight against identity theft.Wife Heather Morgan is the tech company’s CEO, who also happened to write about sales and marketing advice for Inc. Magazine and Forbes.By side hustle, Dutch, 34, is a dual…
By day, Ilya Lichtenstein is the founder of blockchain start-up Endpass, a crypto wallet to "stop fraud and terrorism" in the global fight against identity theft.Wife Heather Morgan is the tech company’s CEO, who also happens to write about sales and marketing advice for Inc. Magazine and Forbes.By side hustle, Dutch, 34, is a duel…
After this week’s plunge in crypto prices, a number of US celebrities may regret getting paid in digital currencies.NFL star Aaron Rodgers, for example, has chosen to get paid partly in Bitcoin. Another football player, Odell Beckham, said he would receive his entire salary that way. And in politics, New York City’s new mayor, Eric…
The Trump family has said that “legal action will be taken” against a cryptocurrency using their name. Eric Trump made the threat on Monday afternoon, tweeting: “Fraud Alert: It has come to our attention that someone is promoting a crypto currency called “TrumpCoin” (Symbol “TRUMP.”) This has nothing to do with our family, we do…
Cryptocurrency leaders were called before Congress to defended Bitcoin as Democrats questioned how the energy-intensive mining was affecting President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda.The Congressional hearing comes after the Environmental Protection Agency blocked two requests to use coal-fired power plants to power bitcoin mining operations.Democrat Diana DeGette opened the hearing, “Cleaning Up Cryptocurrency: The Energy…
Kosovo has banned the mining of cryptocurrency in a bid to reduce electricity consumption amid a severe energy crisis.The decision, which was announced this week, comes a month after the country’s government announced a 60-day state of emergency, allowing it to spend more on energy imports and to introduce power cuts.Power outages plunged the Balkan…
Melania Trump expressed her support for Bitcoin during the 13th anniversary of its launch, weeks after she launched her own non-fungible token (NFT) endeavour.In a tweet, Ms Trump noted that Bitcoin had surpassed $1 trillion (£742.3bn) in market value.“It is widely reported that Bitcoin’s market cap exceeds USD$1 Trillion. Today marks the 13th anniversary of…
Twitter is cringing after a TV commercial starring Matt Damon compared trading cryptocurrency to mankind’s greatest achievements.In the ad, which aired during Sunday night’s NFL games, Mr Damon makes an abstract plug for crypto.com – a platform for exchanging digital currencies like Bitcoin – while striding past images of explorers and astronauts.“History is filled with…
Twitter is cringing after a TV commercial starring Matt Damon compared trading cryptocurrency to mankind’s greatest achievements.In the ad, which aired during Sunday night’s NFL games, Mr Damon makes an abstract plug for crypto.com – a platform for exchanging digital currencies like Bitcoin – while striding past images of explorers and astronauts.“History is filled with…
The top executive overseeing Facebook’s efforts to get into cryptocurrency and international money transfers quit on Tuesday, further complicating the company’s efforts to gain a foothold in the fast-growing world of digital currencies and blockchain technology.David Marcus’s high-profile departure comes just months after the company began hitting walls in Washington when it relaunched its initiative…