The US OCC clears path for banks to custody crypto July 23, 2020 As the great State of Wyoming leads the way in the USA for crypto and blockchain friendly banking (thanks to the tireless efforts of Caitlin Long, Tyler Lindholm and Jared Olsen) and with Texas saddling up to follow suit, huge news came out of the US as the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency [...]
Cryptoforhealth Twitter Scam exposes the benefits of cryptocurrency, not the flaws July 21, 2020 Bitcoin tends to get a bad wrap and has ever since its inception. It’s a useful headline for the media, doom mongers and legacy protectors that always have a go. The truth is that the scale of this activity in the cryptocurrency space pales in significance compared to the multi billion dollars scammed everyday from [...]
State Of The Bitcoin Network Q2 2020 July 21, 2020 | Sponsored Formal Verification is very excited to release its ‘In The Network: Bitcoin Q2 2020’ report today – an on-chain analysis of the current state of the Bitcoin network and the ecosystem that surrounds it. The article below highlights 5 key insights from the use of established and more exotic metrics. Studying the financial bandwidth is [...]
You Can Hold Politicians To Account Using Blockchain July 21, 2020 Politicians – and lots of other people, but mainly politicians – are continually trying to duck and dive around what they have committed to and what they have achieved. The media, as well as activist groups and regular citizens, spend countless hours trying to hold politicians to account. There has never been a better situation [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Venrai July 21, 2020 | Sponsored Venrai provides a suite of compliance advisory, security audit and technology development services to those organisations possessing appetite to seize the disruptive benefits afforded by blockchain technologies. What is the opportunity? Blockchain can most succinctly be described as the “Internet of Value”. Whereas the internet itself is merely a digital communication network, excitement quickly ensues [...]
FCA’s Supervision of Cryptoasset Businesses July 21, 2020 It was announced from the 10th of January this year that the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will be acting as the supervisor of UK cryptoasset businesses under the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (MLRs). The relevant amending regulations expands the application of the MLRs to [...]
