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Recent Government Actions Against Crypto Ecosystem

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:/...

OCC grants Anchorage First Federally Chartered Bank

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...

One of China's Largest Banks launches Digital Yuan ATM

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...

Cardano becomes the most decentralized network

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...

OCC's Brian Brooks opinion piece on DeFi

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...

US State Kentucky Proposes Bill to Lure Crypto Miners

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/...

BTC from 10K to $41K in mere weeks

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...

Is 2021 the year of Crypto Consolidation?

6 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk

Is 2021 the year of Crypto Consolidation?   I offer you my over simplified take on how markets work.  As with any industry there are first to markets then those that tag along and steal market share.   As more and more competition pile into the marke...

Cybercriminals Targeting Crypto Users via new ElectroRAT malware!

6 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk

Cybercriminals Targeting Crypto Users via new ElectroRAT malware!   Although construed as common knowledge today... that with success comes unwanted fame and potentially attacks. Thus as Crypto's 2021 Bull run garners more attention from the media, t...

Gov of Ukraine Picks Stellar to Help Build National Digital Currency

4 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk

Gov of Ukraine Picks Stellar to Help Build National Digital Currency - CBDC   Well here we are 4th of January 2021 and the CBDC race is heating up!  Recall a CBDC is a Central bank digital currency What has been done thus far in regard to CBDC in Uk...