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Cardano becomes the most decentralized network

12 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk $0.21

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 $0.15

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 $0.10

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 $0.11

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 $0.09

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 $0.20

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 $0.17

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...

Is ISO 20022 a replacement for SWIFT?

4 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk $0.06

Is ISO 20022 a replacement for SWIFT?   What is ISO 20022?  Executive Summary: ISO 20022 is an emerging global and open standard for payments messaging. or according to Wikipedia "is an ISO standard for electronic data interchange between financial i...

Recall all the ICO hype?

3 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk $0.17

Recall all the ICO hype? Did you FOMO in?   The ICO craze peaked in 2017-2018 (concurrently with the Crypto Bull then crash timeframe), how much was raised? CoinDesk’s ICO tracker shows that 2017, January to early September saw more than $1.7 billio...

SEC obtains Emergency Asset Freeze against Virgil Capital LLC

28 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk $0.42

SEC obtains Emergency Asset Freeze against Virgil Capital LLC The United States Security Exchange Commission (SEC) is on a tear the past week, this just in the SEC has obtained an Emergency Asset Freeze against Virgil Capital LLC.   What is the order...