The Current State of Cryptocurrencies and How to Implement Digital Money in Y...
During its relatively short lifetime, the cryptocurrency market has already experienced many drastic ups and downs. It’s a pretty volatile sector that is constantly evolving and changing. That being said, 2021 was an especially eventful year for crypto. For example, Bitcoin reached a new all-time high when it surpassed $60,000. Further, Ether hit $3,000 while […]
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This March, New York University's Department of Media, Culture and Communication plays host to a symposium on cryptographic currencies such as Bitcoin. The symposium follows a trail that has already been blazed by other institutions of higher learning that have included cryptocurrencies into their courses or are planning to do so in the near future. Some of the institutions that have begun to take a closer look at Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies include Ivy League universities. The Changing Nature of Money. The upcoming symposium will endeavor to debate the very question. It will also....
March 21, 2015. Los Angeles, CA. On April 18th, 2015, for the first time in downtown Los Angeles, the State of Digital Money will paint a picture of a future vision shaped by the leaders of the digital currency community. Key speakers include, Jeff Garzk, Bitcoin core developer at Bitpay, Steve Beauregard, Co-Founder and CEO at GoCoin, and Connie Gallippi, Founder and Executive Director at the BitGive Foundation. Executives from innovative startups such as Factom, Changetip and Airbitz, will also be represented. Hosted at rhubarb studios within the U. S. bank tower building in downtown Los....
The Texas Department of Banking (DOB) has announced that it will not treat Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as money in a memo, whose pdf document version, interestingly enough, is no longer available. Lately, Texas has been in the headlines quite often alongside mentions of Bitcoin, from the launch of one of the first Bitcoin ATMs in the US to the State’s Attorney General accepting Bitcoin contributions for his gubernatorial campaign. Indeed, the Lone Star state has been at the forefront of embracing the peer-to-peer digital currency as of late. This is why Daniel Wood, assistant....
In an interview for The Delphi Podcast, billionaire Mark Cuban talked about his experience with cryptocurrencies, the current state of the market, and the reasons behind his bullish perception of Bitcoin and Ethereum. For Cuban, cryptocurrencies and their applications are the next evolution of the internet. Claiming that Bitcoin has “taken money away” from gold […]
Marco Santori of the Bitcoin Foundation has a piece up on CoinDesk in which he explores money transmission licenses at the state level in the US. This, he argues, is much trickier than simple FinCEN registration. The state with jurisdiction ultimately decides whether to grant a business a license to transmit money. It’s not a right, and it’s no entirely predictable for a 50-state rollout. Also, because a business meets FinCEN’s definition of a money transmitter does not mean the same applies at the state level. South Carolina and Montana do not even require licenses for such companies, and....