Tag:visa

News: Bitfinex/Tether v. New York, Facebook-only Libra, Justin Sun, IRS letters, unbanking the banked

How to get through Bitfinex’s bulletproof Know Your Customer process — click the “Not a US Resident” button.
[Read more …]

News: FATF money laundering regs on crypto exchanges, Binance cuts off the US, Tether big in China, Bitcoin energy consumption, unofficial Telegram public sale, Cathio, IPFS, Visa’s non-blockchain

And the FUDCon 2019 exploratory committee. With T-shirts for PTK:SV and PTK Classic.
[Read more …]

News: LocalBitcoins less local, Cryptopia, QuadrigaCX, crypto banking, Telegram, Wirecard, EOS Voice, Kik and Defund Crypto, Wright gets a copyright competitor

So much for the “business deals in parking lots” market.
[Read more …]

News: Coinbase suspends Bitcoin, Quadriga officially bankrupt, Bittrex out of New York, Bitfinex margin trading on Tethers, Blockstack Reg A+ token offering

“The more experienced a respondent is, the more likely they are to say blockchain technology is an irresponsible use of resources.”
[Read more …]

News: Crypto Visa issuer fined by Gibraltar, ICOpocalypse, US Congress, BitMEX, EOS, OmiseGo, Laurie Penny

And the week’s opinion pieces — some sane and lucid … some not so much.
[Read more …]

Bitcoin’s stupendous power waste is green, apparently — bad excuses for Proof-of-Work

Did you know that Bitcoin using 0.1% of all the electricity on earth, and 0.5% by the end of the year, is actually good? Huge if true.
[Read more …]

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.
[Read more …]