Cryptocompare, a provider of cryptocurrency data and indices, is launching a new benchmarking service to evaluate cryptocurrency exchanges. The new service uses a proprietary methodology, based upon a combination of […]
If you’re the operator of a large trading platform, charged by a US prosecutor with fraud, misusing customer funds and covering up losses, what do you do? Plead guilty in […]
In theory, micropayments could be one of the most disruptive technologies of all. But will a future of instant, free small money transfers ever arrive? The micropayment promise The designers […]
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been described as ‘the world’s most exclusive club’. Its bimonthly policy meetings, held in Basel, Switzerland, bring together the heads of all the […]
Cryptocurrency networks are intensely political. But it’s often fiendishly hard to work out how those politics operate. Who made the decision to split the ethereum network in 2016, or to […]
Financial market data is now a huge revenue earner: spending on market-related data and news has grown at a compounded rate of 13 percent a year since 2012, according to […]
One intriguing aspect of bitcoin is the way it makes explicit the cost of running a monetary system. Bitcoin mining requires a lot of energy: nearly as much as Switzerland, […]
The proliferation of new forms of money is inevitable and our lives are going to become more challenging as a result. That’s the view of Simon Gleeson, a specialist in […]
The fallout from last week’s indictment by the New York State Attorney General of Bitfinex and Tether continues, this time in the form of a 6 percent price premium in […]
Tired of sharing your data with car manufacturers or web giants for free? Jaguar Land Rover is partnering with a cryptocurrency network to help drivers to earn money from the […]