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Ex-IBM Executive Becomes Chairman Of Board At Bakkt
The CEO of the institutional trading platform Bakkt Kelly Loeffler made an official announcement that the former cybersecurity expert and Cisco, Endgame and IBM Tom Noonan, will become the chairman of Bakkt’s board of directors according to the blog post published yesterday that reached our digital currency news.
The blog post initially reported in Medium, states that the founder, CEO and chairman of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) who is also the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Jeff Sprecher will also be joining the board of directors at Bakkt. In this group a couple of other popular names will be included such as the Softbank managing partner Akshay Naheta and Sean Collins who is the managing partner at Goldfinch partners.
Kelly Loeffler pointed out that the current state of the crypto market and the manipulation of it, increases the security concerns which show how important a regulated crypto space and custody market is for all of the digital assets. She added:
“Security, infrastructure and regulatory clarity are cornerstones for building trust, and ultimately to help this technology serve people around the world.”
The announcement goes on further and explains how the realization of vision of the company requires a serious amount of work by the future and current board members. The post also underlines that the company is working with the United States Regulator- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in order to get the much needed regulatory approval for their Bitcoin (BTC) futures that are expected to be physically delivered.
Loeffler also pointed out that, despite the fact that the company cannot set up an exact launch date, they are making progress with obtaining the needed regulatory approval. The post outlines that bitcoin futures will definitely be listed on the CFTC regulated exchange.
As previously reported by DC Forecasts, the first delay of the Bakkt’s futures launch was caused by the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission after explaining their concerns over the decision of the company to have custody of the clients’ crypto assets. The CFTC told the platform back in February that if Bakkt wants to be a physical warehouse for their customers, they have to fulfill other conditions that are not required for other platforms. The CFTC also requires ‘’disclosures of the venture’s business plan and a public comment period, which would have further delayed approval.’’
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Bitcoin Copyright Registrations Don’t Recognize Wright As The BTC Creator
“In a case in which a work is registered under a pseudonym, the Copyright Office does not investigate whether there is a provable connection between the claimant and the pseudonymous author.”Also, as mentioned in the latest cryptocurrency news, by registering the source code for bitcoin does not mean that you protect the intellectual property for the largest cryptocurrency as an invention. The Copyright office can also cancel the registration application if it finds that the gathered information is a false claim. The office can also deny the application if it finds out that the person who claims to be an author of a piece of work is not the real identity of who they claim to be. Over the past few weeks, a scandal around Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) which is the altcoin backed by Wright himself, got the creator in the eye of the international community when the crypto exchanges around the world started delisting his coin when he went after everyone who said that he is not the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright went after the crypto user Hodlonaut after he called him a fraud and he stated that he is not the real creator of bitcoin. Wright sued the crypto user and this is when the entire crypto community showed their solidarity with Hodlonaut.
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Crypto Startup Circle Fires 10% Of Its Staff Due To Harsh Regulatory Climate
“Today we made organizational changes at Circle and eliminated approximately 30 positions, which is about 10% of our employees. We made these changes in response to new market conditions, most importantly, an increasingly restrictive regulatory climate in the United States.”As it was previously reported in the altcoin news, Allaire outlined the slow progress on the unification of the patchwork regulatory landscape but he said he was very hopeful that improvements will follow in the future. He commented while he attempted to explain why the crypto startup Circle cut off the access to multiple trading pairs on Poloniex which is a crypto exchange that was acquired by the company in 2018. Allaire also underscored Circle’s health as a company in general by saying:
“Circle remains strong and healthy, and we will continue to drive new product innovation and growth globally, working with jurisdictions that offer forward-looking policies regulating digital asset businesses, while we press for more balanced crypto policy in the U.S.’’Also, the crypto news outlet The Block reported that Circle even lowered its March fundraising goal which was $250 million by 40 percent but the sources remained unknown. Circle is simply another company in the industry business to get a shed of its workforce fired over the past two years. The climate was extremely challenging due to the harsh crypto winter. For example, the Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain and the crypto startup ConsenSys had also reduced the number of the staff because of the bad climate. Huobi was one of the companies which also cut down on its workforce during the crypto winter. Since then, the markets rebounded and bitcoin increased and is slowly approaching $8,000. The rest of the crypto market also reported moderate gains and their prices are slowly increasing and strengthening.
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YouTuber PewDiePie Helps Blockchain Platform Grow Its User Base By 67%
“I think the lack of transparency and the huge cut that platforms take from content creators, are the two biggest problems the online streaming industry has. And blockchain is the perfect technology to solve both problems.”However, this is not the final goal for DLive. The company and the YouTuber PewDiePie are planning to grow beyond its rival which is the Amazon-owned live streaming video platform Twitch - known for taking a 50% cut from streamers and having more than 2.2 million daily broadcasters and 15+ million daily viewers on average. Lino managed to raise $20 million in February 2018 to build the "YouTube on the blockchain" as they defined it, a topic that was re-shared by many best cryptocurrency news sites. The money apparently helped them contact and sign a deal with the YouTube streamer PewDiePie.
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Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs) Supported By Bitfinex: Report
“What it means to be an exchange has evolved to become an entire ecosystem, not just limited to the remit of trading digital assets. We are proud to finally launch Tokinex and bring the opportunity for participation in quality token sales in a fair environment.”Tokinex will have its token sale on June 13th. Only users who will qualify will be able to participate in the token sale. The Tokenzied projects that use Tokinex will pay a fee if they hit a higher fundraising goal. Initial Exchange offerings and security token offerings represent the watchdogs of the next altcoin wave. Users will send Bitcoin or Litecoin in an exchange with a predetermined amount of coins from the brand new blockchain. The majority of the projects as reported in the best cryptocurrency news sites, that have funded via ICO failed and eventually lost their value for their investors. Tokinex is now entering a very competitive space with the most popular competitor being Binance Launchpad. Most of the exchanges have some kind of a platform that helps the new tokenized projects to lift off the ground. Launching a token via an exchange platform has a lot of benefits such as better liquidity and a higher degree of trust. Tokinex is represented as the ‘’trusted home of token sales’’ and goes live soon.
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