Judgment Day: Crypto-Shilling Church Pays Price for OneCoin Scam Link
By CCN Markets: Judgment day has arrived for a Samoan church that New Zealand authorities say has damning links to the notorious OneCoin cryptocurrency scam. New Zealand, Samoa Target Church …
Dow Jones: Privacy Scandals Led to Facebook’s S&P 500 ESG Ouster
Jack Dorsey Expects Crypto, Blockchain to Be a ‘Secular Trend’ in Finance
By CCN Markets: Jack Dorsey is all in on bitcoin. The tech entrepreneur, who is at the helm of both Twitter and Square, recognizes that cryptocurrency and the blockchain …
Bitcoin Surges as Analyst Warns That Binance Triggered ‘Altcoin Winter’
GlobalCoin Crypto Among Facebook’s ‘Most Important’ Launches, Squeals Banker
By CCN Markets: Analysts at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Capital Markets predict that Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin, could be the company’s most significant achievement yet. In a message …
Amazon & Alibaba Trade Blows in War for China’s E-commerce Throne
Trade war or not, Amazon intends to challenge Alibaba’s dominance in China’s e-commerce industry. The Jeff Bezos-led company is on a hiring spree in China. Not to be outdone, …
Crypto Unicorn Circle Shutters Payment App to Focus on Stablecoins
By CCN Markets: Crypto unicorn Circle is shutting down its Circle Pay app in July to focus on stablecoins and developing new wallet services. The parent company of crypto …
Dow Cowers as Trump Blames Iran for Gulf Tanker Attacks: ‘It Was Them’
By CCN Markets: The Dow inched toward a cautious session on Friday following President Donald Trump’s blunt assertion that Iran owns the blame for attacks on two tankers in …
Bitcoin Tax Evaders Will Be Criminally Prosecuted, Warns IRS Agent
By CCN Markets: The IRS will soon hunt down bitcoin users who don’t pay taxes by criminally prosecuting them en masse. That’s the prediction of IRS tax investigator Gary …
Facebook Recruits Bank Lobbyist for Regulatory Assist with Crypto GlobalCoin
By CCN Markets: Facebook has just hired a senior UK bank lobbyist ahead of GlobalCoin launch to help the company cope with European regulations. According to the Financial Times, …
Wasted Naysayers Continue to Flog Wasteful Energy-Consuming Bitcoin
By CCN Markets: Here we go again. Yet another article has surfaced taking potshots at the perceived threat of Bitcoin’s energy consumption. A recent article out of MIT Technology …
Binance US is Finally Launching, Will Co-Exist with Coinbase: CEO Zhao
Bitcoin Price Reclaims $8,200 as Trade War Intensifies Bullish Demand
By CCN Markets: In the past four days, the bitcoin price has increased from $7,630 to $8,240 by nearly eight percent against the U.S. dollar as other major crypto …
Major African Insurer Refuses to Cover ‘Risky’ Crypto Mining Equipment
By CCN Markets: One of Africa’s largest insurers, Old Mutual, has announced it will no longer cover crypto mining equipment due to lack of regulation. After researching the industry, …
90% of Polish Bitcoin Users are Uber-Bullish Males Under 40: Survey
By CCN Markets: Bitcoin users in Poland are mostly men under the age of 40. Moreover, a whopping 92% of them believe that payments using cryptocurrencies will soon become …
Italian Retail Deposits Reach All-Time Highs and is Screaming for Bitcoin
By CCN Markets: The Italian government is reportedly trying to be lenient on some forms of hard-to-tax savings, such as that held in safe deposit boxes. Bitcoin could be …
Op-ed
Lamb to Slaughter? Visa Follows Zuck into Facebook’s Centralized Crypto
By CCN Markets: Facebook has managed to lure some big names to support its cryptocurrency endeavor. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, payment giants Visa and …
Opinion
Morgan Stanley Cries Wolf on ‘June Gloom’ Economy Outlook
By CCN Markets: Morgan Stanley economist Ellen Zentner told clients today that June may be a rough month in the economy, going so far as to suggest “June Gloom” is …
Crypto’s Gender Divide Surfaces: Only 5% of Coders Are Women
By CCN Markets: Less than 5% of crypto developers are women, according to an analysis of the 100 most popular blockchain projects submitted to GitHub, Microsoft‘s code-sharing site. The …
Op-ed
Why Fiverr, Beyond Meat, & CrowdStrike Stock Defied the Uber IPO Curse
By CCN Markets: The Uber and Lyft IPOs went absolutely nowhere, despite enormous hype and anticipation. Since then, other IPOs from lesser-known companies like Fiverr, CrowdStrike, and Beyond Meat …
Elon Musk Wants Teslas to Be Fun with Games, Says Self Driving Is Hard
By CCN Markets: Elon Musk never said that self-driving was going to be easy. The Tesla CEO was featured in an interview at the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo with …
Op-ed
GE Ignites 100-Startup Fire Sale in Last-Ditch Bid to Save Crumbling Stock
Following a vicious stock price downturn, GE is making a last-ditch attempt to raise cash. GE Ventures intends to sell its portfolio of investments in more than 100 startups …
Opinion
Bitcoin Can Be a Hedge During Persistent Liquidity Crises: Grayscale
By CCN Markets: Global financial crises are on the rise, thrusting bitcoin into the spotlight. Legendary investor Warren Buffett called bitcoin “rat poison squared,” but it turned out to …