It’s bad enough that bitcoin is being used for a bunch of fake bomb threats across the US and Canada today. Now, Republican Congressman Warren ‘Crypto’ Davidson would like Americans, and maybe Mexicans, to “Buy a Brick, Build...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) settled charges against professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr and music producer DJ Khaled for failing to disclose payments they received for illegally promoting investments in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Mayweather agreed to...
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Jay Clayton told the Consensus: Invest conference in New York that digital ETF approval will only be possible once market manipulation concerns are answered. “The prices retail investors are seeing are...
In two recent blog posts, Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings picked for cryptocurrencies to avoid and another for that it considers “buy-rated.” Today, we’ve got a quick summary of Weiss ratings on those cryptocurrencies analyst Juan Villaverde says to avoid...
Malta has moved quickly to position itself as one of the friendliest jurisdictions for cryptocurrency and digital asset regulations and trading. Tax rates are as low as 5% and recent laws are designed to make cryptocurrency issuing and trading...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) used an emergency court order to halt a planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder, Reginald Buddy Ringgold, III. The SEC said Blockvest falsely claimed it was...
New research from BitMEX and TokenAnalyst looked at 222 ICO projects and found the big drop in market cap for Ethereum during the past year has not resulted in losses so far. "At the macro level, the projects appear...
Cryptocurrency market capitalization across the board has dropped to near record lows and analysts are trying hard to make sense of the persistence of the bear market. In the case of Ether, analysts and industry leaders are pointing...
The top 10 ICOs from 2017 have each returned an average 136,000% return for investors according to Crypto Finance Conference (CFC) analysts. This contrasts hugely with a Boston College report earlier this year which estimated that 56% or...
Barry Ritholtz interviews veteran Wall Street Journal reporter and cryptocurrency book author Paul Vigna. We’ve got highlights of this excellent podcast. Creation of bitcoin Vigna highlights Satoshi Nakamoto’s release of the original bitcoin whitepaper at the height of the...
A new PwC/Crypto Valley Association (CVA) report says initial coin offerings (ICOs) raised a record $13.7 billion in the first five months of 2018. More than 537 ICOs were launched and the 2018 total raised is more than...
Yesterday at the Future of Fintech conference in New York, NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman said ICOs may provide startups with valuable funding but they’re harmful to retail investors. She argued investors like “Auntie Mae in Iowa” are being taken...