Spain’s Guardia Civil (Civil Guard) police unit has indicated that current rules in Europe are inadequate with regards to discouraging the use of Bitcoin ATMs to launder money. According to Bloomberg, this deficiency results from the fact that the owners of the Bitcoin ATMs are not required by the strict AML regulations to vet users…
Binance yesterday completed its eighth quarterly “burn” of BNB. With this move, the exchange follows its commitment to reduce the total token supply periodically. However, along with the obligatory token burn, Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao announced that his company would relinquish its entire BNB allocation as part of its efforts to promote the growth…
The Federal Trade Commission has whacked Facebook with a record $5 billion fine stemming from the 2018 scandal in which a political consulting firm improperly accessed Facebook user data. The fine comes as a result of settlement talks between the two entities. The consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, scraped data from 87 million Facebook profiles without…
Veil, a decentralized application that mostly interacts with Augur to help crypto users create and participate in prediction markets, is going away. Prediction Markets Just One Mass Appeal for Crypto The product itself that is. The company behind it will continue developing new products, and one thing that Veil leaves behind is the ability to…
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By CCN: The Dow and broader U.S. stock market rose Monday, bolstered by strong consumer spending data that pointed to a firm domestic recovery at the start of the year. Although markets are enjoying record highs for now, Donald Trumps new Federal Reserve appo…
By CCN.com: According to a Bloomberg report, billionaire investor Mike Novogratzs Galaxy Digital Holding Ltd. lost more than $272 million in 2018 amidst an intense crypto bear market. From January to December 2018, the valuation of the crypto market dropped …
For many viewers tuning into Game of Thrones last night, what was supposed to be one of the shows most remarkable and momentous scenes ever was marred by, well, darkness. The Battle of Winterfell, playing out in the season 8 episode The Long Night, took an ar…
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke speaks during a kickoff rally in El Paso, Texas, March 30, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The progressive environmentalist group Sunrise Movement criticized Beto O’Rourke’s climate-change-policy proposal on Mond…
April 29, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC / Source: Space.com By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com The moon may have formed after a giant Mars-size rock hit a magma-covered newborn Earth, a new study finds. Earth came together about 4.5 billion years ago, and previous research…
