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John Kiff

Hackers Infect 50,000 Servers With Sophisticated Crypto Mining Malware - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/sticated-crypto-mining-malware

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  • John Kiff on 03 Jun 19
     
    Hackers have breached over 50,000 servers across the world to mine cryptocurrency using unusually sophisticated tools, according to Guardicore Labs. The large-scale "Nansh0u​ campaign" malware effort has been ongoing since February, mostly targeting firms in the healthcare, telecoms, media and IT sectors.
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Breaking down the most funded stablecoin projects as of May 2019 - 0 views

medium.com/...ts-as-of-may-2019-63df2767b5bf

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  • John Kiff on 03 Jun 19
     
    2019 looks to be the year of the stablecoin. Since the beginning of 2017, 122 stablecoin projects have been announced but are still in development. We took a look at the projects with a stablecoin that have received the most outside funding.
John Kiff

Inwara Initial Exchange Offering report - 0 views

www.inwara.com/...inwara-monthly-report-may-2019

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  • John Kiff on 03 Jun 19
     
    Blockchain and crypto projects have raised $2.65B during May 2019. ~$1.2B, was raised through Initial Exchange Offerings.
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Utility Settlement Coin Completes £50m Funding Round - 0 views

www.marketsmedia.com/in-completes-50m-funding-round

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  • John Kiff on 03 Jun 19
     
    The founding shareholders of Fnality comprise: Banco Santander, BNY Mellon, Barclays, CIBC, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, ING, KBC Group, Lloyds Banking Group, MUFG Bank, Nasdaq, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, State Street Corporation, and UBS. Clearmatics continues in its role as the technology partner to Fnality.
John Kiff

Top banks push ahead with digital coins for 2020 - 0 views

www.ft.com/...ea-83e5-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b

Fintech CryptoAssets AltCoins Stablecoins

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  • John Kiff on 03 Jun 19
     
    Thirteen of the world's biggest banks are preparing to launch digital versions of major global currencies in 2020 after years of research convinced them that the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies could be used to make trading less risky and cheaper.
John Kiff

Understanding Capture and Validate KYC Processes - 0 views

www.gsma.com/...ure-and-validate-kyc-processes

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  • John Kiff on 03 Jun 19
     
    Whilst governments can take different approaches to implementing SIM registration, we have asserted that 'Capture and Validate' (C&V) processes give the highest level of confidence that the person registering a SIM 'is who they claim to be'. This is because C&V enables mobile network operators (MNOs) to validate their customers' ID against a central government database, usually in real time. Globally, only 16 countries follow this approach.
John Kiff

SEC's 'CryptoMom' fights for controversial ETF innovation - 0 views

www.ft.com/...0c-d2a7-3c4d-9ccd-5908e88599a3

Fintech CryptoAssets ETFs Regulation

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  • John Kiff on 03 Jun 19
     
    Hester Pierce, aka the US SEC's "CryptoMom", has called on fellow supervisors to abandon their cautious approach to approving controversial new exchange traded funds (ETFs) and allow innovation to flourish.
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Major Utility Settlement Coin Project Raises $63 Mln for Commercial Realization - 0 views

cointelegraph.com/...mln-for-commercial-realization

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  • John Kiff on 03 Jun 19
     
    The Utility Settlement Coin (USC) project - led by some of the world's largest banks - has announced the creation of a new firm (Fnality International) and closure of an accompanying £50 million Series A financing round.
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Wave of SIM swapping attacks hit US cryptocurrency users - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/...ks-hit-us-cryptocurrency-users

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  • John Kiff on 03 Jun 19
     
    SIM swapping, also known as SIM jacking, is a type of ATO (account take over) attack during which a malicious threat actor uses various techniques (usually social engineering) to transfers a victim's phone number to their own SIM card.
John Kiff

Facebook in talks with US regulator over digital currency - 0 views

www.ft.com/...fe-83c6-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b

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  • John Kiff on 02 Jun 19
     
    Facebook has begun talks with the top US derivatives regulator over its plans for a digital currency, in a sign of how the world's largest social media platform is laying the groundwork for an ambitious push in to payments.
John Kiff

Prometheus and Epimetheus in the Digital Age | German Bundesbank - 0 views

www.bundesbank.de/...-im-digitalen-zeitalter-797914

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  • John Kiff on 02 Jun 19
     
    The President of Germany's central bank, Jens Weidmann, has warned that implementing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could lead to the destabilization of global financial systems, especially during times of fiscal crisis.
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Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay for Bitcoin - 0 views

arxiv.org/1905.10518

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  • John Kiff on 02 Jun 19
     
    A newly-proposed relay protocol called Erlay could reduce the transaction bandwidth used up by bitcoin nodes by up to 75%. The proposed protocol alters the way transactions are relayed, for example, by sending transaction announcements directly only over a small subset of connections. The authors include Greg Maxwell and Pieter Wuille.
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Local startups to be at forefront of utilizing the Bahamas new central bank digital cur... - 0 views

thenassauguardian.com/...central-banks-digital-currency

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  • John Kiff on 01 Jun 19
     
    The CEO of NZIA, the tech firm behind the Central Bank of the Bahamas Project Sand Dollar, has said the key to making it a reality is by engaging with local banks, SMEs and entrepreneurs to create new products and solutions around the new digital currency.
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Why money laundering risk is very real with crypto cards - 0 views

ftalphaville.ft.com/...is-very-real-with-crypto-cards

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  • John Kiff on 01 Jun 19
     
    PIN numbers and contactless cards have greatly eased the ability of mules to share their crypto-backed debit cards with those they are working for. And that is why crypto cards pose such a risk.
John Kiff

Eggs in One Basket: Security and Convenience of Digital Currencies - 0 views

economics.ca/...cms

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  • John Kiff on 01 Jun 19
     
    Digital currencies store balances using anonymous addresses. This Bank of Canada paper analyzes the cost, safety and convenience trade-offs between aggregating balances versus safeguarding a large number of passwords of many small accounts.
John Kiff

Japan officially revises its crypto-asset laws to provide more clarity - and tighter co... - 0 views

www.coindesk.com/tocurrency-storage-and-trading

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  • John Kiff on 31 May 19
     
    The legislation amending the Payment Services Act and Financial Instruments and Exchange Act was formally enacted on May 31 and will take effect in April of next year. Among the notable changes, the Act will limit crypto-asset margin trading.
John Kiff

Australian Securities Regulator Releases Cryptocurrency, Mining, ICO Guidelines - 0 views

asic.gov.au/...sses-on-icos-and-crypto-assets

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  • John Kiff on 31 May 19
     
    The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) published new initial coin offering (ICO) and cryptocurrency guidelines on its official website on May 30.
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The Potential Decline of Cash Usage and Related Implications - 0 views

crsreports.congress.gov/...R45716

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  • John Kiff on 31 May 19
     
    The Congressional Research Service examined the decline in cash usage in the United States and the potential rise of alternative payment systems, including bitcoin or other digital assets, in the purchase of goods and services.
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SBI Ripple Asia to Trial Store Settlement Service for XRP-Powered Payments App MoneyTap - 0 views

cointelegraph.com/...-powered-payments-app-moneytap

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  • John Kiff on 31 May 19
     
    SBI Ripple Asia is launching a store settlement service using the consumer-focused XRP-powered payments app MoneyTap, jointly developed by SBI and Ripple. MoneyTap implements Ripple's blockchain solution xCurrent to enable near-instant domestic bank-to-bank remittance services.
John Kiff

Bitcoin's Rally Masks Uncomfortable Fact: Almost Nobody Uses It - 0 views

www.bloomberg.com/...ble-fact-almost-nobody-uses-it

Bitcoin Fintech CryptoAssets

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  • John Kiff on 31 May 19
     
    Hardly anyone is using Bitcoin for anything beyond speculation. Data from Chainalysis show that only 1.3% of economic transactions came from merchants in the first four months of 2019, little changed over the boom and bust cycles of the prior two years.
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