Mt. Gox Soap Opera Continues: Karpeles Released on Bail, Shadow Companies, and Whale Dumps

Mt. Gox Mark Karpeles’ release on bail has produced a new radio program examining the historic hack and heist, but is also raising questions about sister exchanges such as BTC-e and their role in laundering stolen bitcoin. If all that wasn’t enough, a Gox trustee decided to dump over 400 million USD in bitcoin core … Read more

PR: Auctus Releases the First Blockchain Based Retirement Planning Platform

Auctus, the world’s first platform for smart contract-powered retirement plans, which allows you to create customized retirement focused portfolios, consisting of traditional assets and cryptocurrencies, just released their (alpha platform) on Ethereum’s Rinkeby testnet. The released platform allows you to choose between portfolio recommendations, created by the community, in the human advisory marketplace, or be … Read more

Research Paper Says Issuers of ICO Tokens Will Face Class Action Lawsuits

This month a law firm called Polsinelli LLP published a study called “Cryptocurrency Class Action Lawsuits: A New Frontier” which explains that initial coin offerings (ICO) will spark a large number of litigation proceedings against cryptocurrency projects and businesses. Also read: New Study Looks at the Cost to Mine BTC Across the Globe ‘ICOs May Be … Read more

Bots Blamed for Binance Bug That Leaves Traders Reeling

Binance has found itself at the center of an unusual trading bug that has created big winners and losers. In a matter of minutes, viacoin pumped by 70x. Just to compound the drama, bitcoin experienced a massive sell-off shortly afterwards following bearish news from the SEC. Binance suspended withdrawals while it investigated the matter, but … Read more

From ‘Attack’ to ‘Optimization’ — Slush Pool Reveals ASIC Boost Compatibility

Back in the spring of 2017, the discussion of a technology called ‘ASIC Boost’ was a very hot debate amongst bitcoin proponents. Bitcoin core (BTC) supporters were extremely upset with the firm Bitmain Technologies and its owner Jihan Wu for allegedly using ASIC Boost covertly, even though the company denied it. Now according to reports … Read more