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BitPay to create National Bank in Georgia, USA

10 Dec 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk

BitPay to create National Bank in Georgia, USA   Who is BitPay? - they are a crypto payments startup firm that started in '11. Their website states 'BitPay provides Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash payment processing services for merchants' Additionally, the...

Whales Collude?

9 Dec 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Keith Thuerk

Whales Collude? Before you go off on me, hear me out.  Collusion is defined as : An often secret action taken by two or more parties to achieve an illegal or improper purpose. n. Secret agreement for a fraudulent or harmful purpose; a secret or craf...

Reasons why CBDC are a BAD idea

5 Dec 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Keith Thuerk

Reasons why CBDC are a BAD idea What is CBDC its defined as a Central Bank Digital Currency.  One can think of it as a Digital dollar ($) or whatever currency it is intended to displace. The premise being they are digital offerings, which during a pa...

Bank of Canada "CBDC, might see the light of the day sooner than expected."

3 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk

Bank of Canada "CBDC, might see the light of the day sooner than expected."   On Dec 1st Timothy Lane, Deputy Governor and head of research at the bank’s fintech and crypto department, Stated that Canada’s central bank digital currency, or CBDC, migh...

Bitcoin Development Is Evolving – and What’s Behind It

29 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk

Bitcoin Development Is Evolving – and What’s Behind It Its no secret that Bitcoin’s code has been chugging along for over 10 years now, but it has undergone a few changes.  Lots of bug fixes have taken place, the next upgrade will be a significant ne...

Major Traditional Investing House Guggenheim to Invest Up to $530MM in BTC

29 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk

Major Traditional Investing House Guggenheim to Invest Up to $530MM   Just one short day following Roubini's Twitter meltdown proclaiming how right he was about BitCoin (and the massive sell-off) Traditional Global Investing and advisory firm Guggenh...

All Pizza Hut in Venezuela to accept Cryptocurrency!

28 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Keith Thuerk

All Pizza Hut in Venezuela to accept Cryptocurrency!   You might be thinking so what, I don't live anywhere near Venezuela.  Think Bigger! 1) Pizza Hut is a US Based Multinational firm called Yum! Brands Inc. It is part of the Fortune 1000 and is pub...

What do you know about reCAPTCHA?

26 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk

What do you know about reCAPTCHA? Seems a harmless little application; right? Let's dig in and find out, secondly it is a security apparatus.  First did you know that the Global behemoth Google owns reCAPTCHA? True, and that it is a behavior monitori...

US CFTC has had a busy week - Impacts Coinbase Pro

25 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Keith Thuerk

CFTC has had a busy week - Impacts Coinbase Pro    The US Commodities Future Trading Commission (aka CFTC) has  worked with Coinbase in the background and from that we get no more margin trading. That goes live today 25/11/2020.  As of now the impact...

Publish0x adds a new Token - Ampleforth

24 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Keith Thuerk

Publish0x adds a new Token - Ampleforth for earnings   Today I checked by Publish0x earnings and noted a new token at the bottom of the list - Ampleforth. Having never heard of it I was off to perform research.  First from a ticker symbol its known a...