Bitcoin And Crypto-Currency
Inheritance Planning For Cryptocurrencies (#GotBitcoin?)
Inheritance Planning For Cryptocurrencies: 3 Steps In 3 Minutes. Inheritance Planning For Cryptocurrencies (#GotBitcoin?) I’ll be expanding these ideas in a forthcoming article and book but with prices skyrocketing, and so many new people owning tokens for the first time, I want to provide a quick reference guide that you…
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains: How Are They Doing After 10 Years? (#GotBitcoin?)
It wasn’t supposed to have worked out like this. Bitcoin was created about a decade ago, with the release of the original design paper, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, under the pen name of Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin aimed to become a decentralized cryptocurrency and digital payment system that would…
How Dirty Money Disappears Into the Black Hole of Cryptocurrency (#GotBitcoin?)
Journal investigation documents suspicious trades through venture capital-backed ShapeShift. How Dirty Money Disappears Into the Black Hole of Cryptocurrency (#GotBitcoin?) A North Korean agent, a stolen-credit-card peddler and the mastermind of an $80 million Ponzi scheme had a common problem. They needed to launder their dirty money. They found a…
Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards. Retailers Hate Them (#GotBitcoin?)
Merchants want the right to reject some rewards credit cards, citing high interchange fees. Shoppers Love Rewards Credit Cards. Retailers Hate Them Consumers have become addicted to credit cards with generous rewards programs. Retailers are trying to cut them off. Large merchants including Amazon.com Inc., Target Corp. and Home Depot Inc.…
Workers Strike Demanding Better Pay And Benefits While Corporations Use Excess Cash To Buy-Back Company Stock (#GotBitcoin?)
The strengthening economy and tight labor market are giving workers more confidence to demand employer concessions through strikes. Workers Strike Demanding Better Pay And Benefits While Corporations Use Excess Cash To Buy-Back Company Stock In recent weeks, unionized hotel housekeepers in Chicago, distillery workers in Kentucky and crane operators in Seattle…
PayPal Bans Alex Jones And InfoWars (#GotBitcoin?)
Alex Jones can add PayPal Holdings Inc. to the list of companies ending ties to the conspiracy theorist and his InfoWars website for hateful and intolerant behavior. PayPal Bans Alex Jones And InfoWars (#GotBitcoin?) The payments company said Friday in a blog post that it will no longer offer its…
Hedge Funds Investing Billions In Crypto (#GotBitcoin)
Billionaire investor Steven Cohen, once dubbed the "Hedge Fund King," has reportedly entered the crypto space. Hedge Funds Investing Billions In Crypto (#GotBitcoin) According to a Fortune article published July 12, Cohen has invested in cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Autonomous Partners through his VC firm Cohen Private Ventures. Autonomous Partners was…
Ultimate Resource For Money Laundering, Spoofing, Market-Rigging, Etc. In Banking Industry (#GotBitcoin)
Bank of America To Pay $30 Million In Benchmark-Manipulation Settlement. Ultimate Resource For Money Laundering, Spoofing, Market-Rigging, Etc. In Banking Industry (#GotBitcoin) The bank was accused of trying to help its own derivatives positions. Bank of America Corp. will pay $30 million as part of a settlement with the…
Crypto Pioneer David Chaum Says He’s Built A Better Bitcoin (#GotBitcoin?)
A new platform, called Elixxir, promises to improve on bitcoin’s speed by processing thousands of transactions a second. Crypto Pioneer David Chaum Says He’s Built A Better Bitcoin The godfather of the cryptocurrency movement is back with a plan to address bitcoin’s biggest shortcoming: speed. David Chaum, who built his own…
Fidelity CEO Hints At Crypto Products As Sector Aims For Mainstream (#GotBitcoin?)
Fidelity Investments is cooking up more blockchain and cryptocurrency-related products and services, with a goal of rolling some of them out in the next few months, CEO Abigail Johnson said Friday morning. Fidelity CEO Hints At Crypto Products As Sector Aims For Mainstream (#GotBitcoin?) Johnson made the comments during an…
Ultimate Resource On Large And Small Bitcoin Hodlers
Over 55% of Bitcoins currently sit in wallets that have balances upwards of 200 coins – worth over $1Mn at any point in time within the last 11 months when the price of Bitcoin breached the $5k mark. Ultimate Resource On Large And Small Bitcoin Hodlers And impressively, 1/3…
Social Security Fixes That Would Help Widows, The Oldest Old, And Low Earners (#GotBitcoin?)
Will We See Them Implemented? We all know the Social Security system needs reforming to keep it solvent so Americans will continue receiving their promised benefits. But Social Security also could be improved to better assist the economically vulnerable. Social Security Fixes That Would Help Widows, The Oldest Old, And Low…