Tag:cftc

News: Civil ripped off its journalists, Bitfinex untethers Tether, working at Trezor, Amazon Managed Blockchain

Any company that tries to pay your wages in company scrip — rather than actual money — should be treated as fraudulent trash.
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News: Australia “nah mate” to blockchains, Bitfinex/Tether push Rothschild conspiracy theories, JPEG blockchain DRM, miners as locusts, Initiative Q

“The market can stay irrational longer than you can retain hope for humanity.”
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News: CFTC crypto win, Bitcoin power use, NiceHash, Huobi public listing, Indiegogo goes crypto, Cosbycoin comes true

Craig S. Wright, the man who failed to be Satoshi, turns out to be… not such a good coder.
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News: WeChat ban, Virtual Commodity Association, MyHealthRecord and RMIT Blockchain, Venezuela, TRON guts BitTorrent, Inc., Bitfinex/Tether, Deloitte blockchain survey

The FOIA request denial from the CFTC over Bitfinex and Tether is particularly interesting.
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News: Me on launching an ICO, SEC on ICOs, CFTC subpoenas exchanges, KodakCoin and NBA/NHL, 51% attacks, Mona Lisa on the blockchain, EOS security, York retrospective

Pictures from York. And “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” is cheap in Canada this month!
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Explaining the Justice Department/CFTC criminal investigation into Bitcoin trading — and likely Bitfinex/Tether

A rundown of what market manipulations warrant a criminal investigation — and why Bitfinex/Tether are a likely focus.
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News: UK Treasury Digital Currencies Inquiry, Ethereum as a security, Bitcoin Cash, mining for charity

The first spoken evidence session from the Treasury’s Digital Currencies Inquiry is a blinder.
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News: Tether in the Netherlands and Puerto Rico, CoinHive thefts, CFTC pump-and-dump bounties, the market is stupid

Tether’s banking may be more interesting than we thought.
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News: Bitfinex/Tether subpoena, AriseBank vs SEC, Facebook bans crypto ads

And the cheapest way to get a good video card now? Buy a high-end pre-built PC and rip it out.
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Fire and Fury: merchant de-adoption, Visa, Bitcoin futures, porn ICO, Ripple, market cap collapse, book pics

“Fire and Fury” seems to be a title that shifts copies, so let’s see how it goes.
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