Successful applicants can use the funds to buy a ticket to the company’s headquarters. Researchers wishing to apply to New York-based Red Balloon Security have to complete an unusual technical interview as part of their application process: unlocking a hard drive containing crypto.
Crypto friendly regulations, rising user activity and a recent collaboration with Yearn finance back Curve DAO Token’s recent triple-digit rally. Over the past two weeks the entire DeFi sector has been in a strong uptrend and many of the top market cap tokens rallied by double and triple-digits. Curve DAO’s governance token CRV has been […]
The inconvenience of using Bitcoin directly may soon be dwarfed by the headache of moving it on and off exchanges. The United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, recently proposed a series of new regulations applying to financial institutions dealing with digital currencies, such as Bitcoin (BTC). To summarize the proposed regulations, exchanges would
The BTC price is at a crucial inflection point, according to JPMorgan strategists. Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital-asset manager, could hold the key to Bitcoin’s (BTC) short-term price outlook, according to JPMorgan Chase. As Bloomberg reports, strategists led by Nikolas Panigirtzoglou believe Bitcoin could lose its luster over the short-term unless it
Altcoins are beginning to lose bullish momentum as Bitcoin price struggles to reclaim $40,000. Investors are beginning to worry that Bitcoin’s (BTC) uptrend could be in peril after the top-ranked cryptocurrency failed to pull above the $40,000. Some traders are afraid that a repeat of the crushing 2018 bear market is on the cards again […]
Analysts say Bitcoin and Ether’s growing dominance of the crypto market are signals that the current bull market is drastically different than the last one. New data from Pantera Capital, an investment firm and hedge fund, suggests that Bitcoin’s (BTC) current price action is closely following the stock-to-follow model’s trajectory and the firm’s analysts believe […]
Current CTO David Schwartz claims Stefan Thomas created hundreds of accounts with 1.0 BTC “because that was the fastest and easiest number to type” for his experiments. David Schwartz, current chief technical officer at Ripple, is responding to reports his predecessor had lost access to hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin. In a Quora […]
Bitcoin’s brief period of consolidation has opened a path for select altcoins to rally higher. Bitcoin (BTC) price has yet to recapture the $40,000 level and traders who were expecting a quick resumption of the uptrend may have been caught off guard by the recent pullback. This could have led to the liquidation of about […]
Lyn Alden likens Ethereum to the Concorde aircraft: functional, but not “an economically sustainable project.” One reason strategist and investment guru Lyn Alden isn’t invested in Ether is she considers the Ethereum network an “unfinished product” when compared with Bitcoin. Alden’s economic analysis of Ethereum released today compares the smart contract
They said that 2020 was the year of DeFi. Perhaps 2021 should be the year of DeFi’s sensible regulation. One rule at a time, decentralized finance is gradually being outlawed. It is not that governments specifically aim to make it illegal. Rather, every proposal that comes out lately seems to enact rules that are impossible […]