El Salvador begins mining Bitcoin using volcanic energy October 1, 2021 El Salvador has begun mining Bitcoin using power harnessed from a volcano, its president has revealed. President Nayib Bukele took to Twitter on Tuesday to share a teaser video showing Bitcoin mining equipment arriving at an energy factory in government-branded containers. Earlier today, Bukele confirmed that volcano-powered Bitcoin mining had kicked off with 0.00599179 BTC [...]
Fear grips markets while Bitcoin holds at over $43k October 1, 2021 Bitcoin has banked more people in three weeks than the entire banking system did in several decades, writes Jason Deane.
Binance hires two US financial crime experts to bolster security October 1, 2021 Crypto exchange giant Binance has hired two former special agents from the US’ Internal Revenue Service in a bid to win over regulators. Binance has announced Tigran Gambaryan and Matthew Price will be the latest cyber security experts to join the company. Gambaryan will take over as VP of Global Intelligence and Investigations after a [...]
Binance hires two US financial crime experts to bolster security – CityAM : CityAM October 1, 2021 Crypto exchange giant Binance has hired two former special agents from the US’ Internal Revenue Service in a bid to win over regulators. Binance has announced Tigran Gambaryan and Matthew Price will be the latest cyber security experts to join the company. Gambaryan will take over as VP of Global Intelligence and Investigations after a [...]
Winners crowned at the Crypto A.M. awards October 1, 2021 The Crypto A.M. summit was topped off with a glittering awards ceremony recognising some of the most innovative projects in the sector. Last night 14 category winners were honoured at a black-tie awards ceremony, held at the Leonardo Royal Hotel in St Pauls, London. “The quality of the entries this year was fantastic,” said head [...]
Winners crowned at Crypto A.M. awards – CityAM : CityAM October 1, 2021 The Crypto A.M. summit was topped off with a glittering awards ceremony recognising some of the most innovative projects in the sector. Last night 14 category winners were honoured at a black-tie awards ceremony, held at the Leonardo Royal Hotel in St Pauls, London. “The quality of the entries this year was fantastic,” said head [...]
Crypto Summit LIVE: Updates from the heart of the City September 30, 2021 Day 2 Yesterday, we were treated to keynote talks from Lord Chris Homes MBE, member of the House of Lords, Marcus Hughes of Coinbase and Alderman William Russell, Lord Mayor of The City of London and more! The day was topped off with an awards ceremony held at St Leonardo’s hotel in London. Closing thoughts [...]
Natwest chairman Sir Howard Davies on the ‘pandexit’ to China, levelling-up and crypto September 30, 2021 Sir Howard Davies is as near as the UK gets to the continental ideal of a polymath who is equally at home in the worlds of arts, industry, finance and politics. While currently serving as the chairman of banking giant Natwest, he is a former director of the LSE, a professor at Sciences Po in [...]
Exclusive: MELD to launch gold-backed stablecoin on Cardano network September 30, 2021 MELD has announced plans to launch a gold-backed stablecoin on the Cardano network as part of plans to democratise access to crypto. On day two of the City AM crypto summit, chairman Ken Olling announced a three-way partnership with African agri-fintech Tingo International Holdings, and Ubuntu Tribe – an ethical firm which tokenises natural resources. [...]
Can Bitcoin style validation solve financial statement fraud? September 30, 2021 Jason Meyers, inventor of Auditchain Protocol addresses the question of how a Bitcoin-style validation could solve financial statement fraud.