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20 Jan 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Keith Thuerk
Brave Browser adds support for IPFS What is IPFS? - InterPlanetary File System (F/S) is a A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to make the web faster, safer, and more open. IPFS is an open-source project created by Protocol Labs, an R&D lab...
19 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
CoinShares launching an exchange-traded bitcoin product (ETP) on Swiss stock exchange Who is CoinShares? Digital asset management firm CoinShares is a European digital asset investment firm. You might recall that in June of '20 CoinShares partnere...
19 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk
Grayscale adds 18x daily mined amount of BTC Well, Grayscale continues to kick butt and take names, they recently added 18x (yes 'x') the daily amount of mined BTC in one day. That day was just yesterday 1/18/21. So what does that really mean? Grays...
18 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk
Recent Government Actions Against Crypto Ecosystem Updated 1/19/21 Iran Reportedly blames Bitcoin miners for massive power outages across the country! 1/18/21 - Australian Bitcoin Trader Takes Banks to Tribunal After Sudden Account Closures - https:/...
13 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk
OCC grants Anchorage First Federally Chartered Bank So the City of Anchorage has a federal charter? - negative ghost rider! The Crypto custodian Anchorage has been granted that conditional approval! One could think of this as a National Bank w/ C...
12 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
One of China's Largest Banks launches Digital Yuan ATM Who?- The Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), one of China’s “big four” banks, launched a pilot program to enable the first digital yuan ATMs. The banking institution deployed the first machines...
12 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
Cardano becomes the most decentralized network A recent report shows that 69% of Cardano ADA has been staked making it THE most decentralized network! Recall the Shelly Main-net launched July '20. They switched from the Byron address scheme to th...
12 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
OCC's Brian Brooks opinion piece on DeFi Today Tuesday 1/12/21 the OCC's, Brian Brooks had an opinion piece published in the Financial Times (FT), yep the pink paper folks! Premise of the piece - thinks that DeFi can root out bias and fraud in trad...
12 Jan 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Keith Thuerk
US State Kentucky Proposes Bill to Lure Crypto Miners Who? Two Kentucky General Assembly Representatives Steven Rudy and Chris Freeland's introduced a Bill last week (can find it here https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/hb230/...
8 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk
BTC from 10K to $41K in mere weeks So, welcome aboard the crazy train (no, not Ozzy's, although that would be an awesome theme song running in the background of this bull market) the BTC express has gone from $10K to pushing through $41K in just four...
