Blockchain.com CFO Says Company Could IPO in ’18-Months,’ Firm’s Balance Sheet Holds BTC, ETH
This week Blockchain.com CFO Macrina Kgil discussed how the company has surpassed $1 trillion in cryptocurrency transactions and the company may go public with an initial public offering (IPO) in 2023. The cryptocurrency firm is one of the oldest in the industry and Kgil explained that 76 million Blockchain.com wallets have been created since the…
US Consumers Expect Inflation to Continue Rising Sharply According to the Fed’s Latest Survey
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published the Survey of Consumer Expectations report on Monday, which shows U.S. consumers are expecting short-term inflation levels to be higher than usual. Meanwhile, the report also shows American consumers’ expectations of long-term inflation have reached the highest level since 2013. New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations…
Bitcoin Protects Privacy and Fights Oppression
Surveillance is power, as authoritarian regimes across history have known. The emergence of the internet in the late-20th century made surveillance easier than ever, by creating a historically unprecedented repository of information about individuals and organizations stored on servers throughout the world. Over the years the dangers of the internet’s Panopticon have pushed many ordinary…
Dow Jones, Nasdaq Flash Red at Thursday’s Opening Bell
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 all flashed red at Thursday’s opening bell as the three major US stock market indices continued to grapple with the fallout of Apple’s revenue guidance cut, which reduced the tech giant’s quarterly target by as much as $9 billion from earlier estimates. The Nasdaq suffered the…
Envion – Digital Currency Mint in a Box Exploits World’s Lowest Cost Power
The post Envion – Digital Currency Mint in a Box Exploits World’s Lowest Cost Power appeared first on CCN This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. The SanShangLiang industrial park in remote Inner Mongolia and…
Bosch and Wien Energie Demo Blockchain-Powered Refrigerator
Electronics giant Bosch and power supplier Wien Energie have revealed a blockchain fridge aimed to enable better control of electricity consumption.
Help Wanted! Japan Needs Crypto Engineers
The half billion dollar Coincheck exchange hack is still working its way through the ecosystem, carrying implications of all sorts. Rarely mentioned is how, at least in part, the exchange’s problems were due to a lack of crypto engineers in Japan. A dearth of engineering know-how is a perfect recipe for security gaps to be…
Safemoon Product Launch Hits a Snag, Project Bombarded by Accusations, Community Deflects Criticism
A cryptocurrency project called Safemoon has been trending in forums and social media in recent times, as the crypto asset team promised a few new products, but the team claims that the launch has seen difficulties. This weekend, a post published to the subreddit forum r/cryptocurrency claims “Safemoon has been exploited from day 1 and…
Russians Design а ‘Beautiful’ Mining Rig
A Russian design studio has developed a “beautiful” cryptocurrency mining rig. The fashionable “Freer” is a modular, customizable home mining device. It comes in different colors, displays and sets of ports, depending on the requirements of the client. Meanwhile, members of the Russian crypto community have urged the government to classify individual miners as self-employed which…
Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Turns 48 Today, Coinciding With the Anniversary of FDR’s US...
According to the P2P Foundation forum, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, has ostensibly turned 48 today on April 5, 2023. More than 14 years ago, Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the forum members, noting that the inventor “developed a new open-source P2P e-cash system called Bitcoin.” The Significance of April 5 in the History…