In this audio interview, CoinDesk’s Leigh Cuen and Spankchain community manager Allie Eve Knox talk about the conjunction of porn and crypto. From performers who accept BTC and XRP to decentralized delivery services, Cuen and Knox explore what happens when financial companies meet censorship-resistant systems. The biggest problem? Knox and other performers and sex workers
Month: February 2020
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the opening bell in New York, January 24, 2020. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Halfway through earnings season for the fourth quarter of 2019, and it’s been a tale of haves and have-nots. The haves include megacap tech names like Netflix, Intel, Microsoft,
A Tesla car dealership in Munich. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Tesla— Shares of Elon Musk’s automaker roared more than 15% higher, continuing a surge begun on Monday after major shareholder Ron Baron called for the company’s
Starting your own business is one of the most difficult career paths to navigate, and even the most successful entrepreneur makes mistakes. But to really succeed, you need to take risks and understand you will not be successful right from the get-go. It takes a long time to grow a business — and even longer
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Motors David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Investors betting against Tesla‘s stock have lost more than $8 billion since the beginning of the year, according to data from S3 Partners, including nearly $2.5 billion in losses on Monday’s surge alone. Tesla has more short sellers than
Crypto Capital co-founder Reginald Fowler has rejected a plea deal with the US government in an ongoing case in which he is accused of operating a “shadow bank” for several crypto exchanges. Fowler was indicted in April 2019, along with Israeli national Ravid Yosef, for allegedly running a shadow bank for several cryptocurrency firms, including Bitfinex
Political obstacles to the finalization of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority debt restructuring have grown in the last seven days. On Wednesday, the presidents of the Puerto Rico House and Senate held a press conference to announce that none of the New Progressive Party legislators under them supported approving the rate surcharge part of
The U.S. Marshals Service is auctioning nearly $40 million in bitcoin, the first such auction since the end of 2018. The Marshals will auction “approximately” 4,040 bitcoin, worth $37.7 million at press time, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index, to registered bidders on Feb. 18, the press release said. Potential bidders must register by Feb.
Aztec has launched its privacy network on ethereum, providing users with what it said is a cost-efficient solution for keeping transactions private. Aztec CEO Thomas Walton-Pocock said in a blog post Friday those using the system will be able to transact with private ethereum-based assets. Using the same zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) as zcash, the protocol
Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks with reporters as he walks through the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa on August 11, 2019 Alex Edelman | AFP | Getty Images Iowa’s Democratic presidential caucus Monday is a step toward narrowing the far-flung field of Democratic candidates, and investors could start getting
Cassidy Claire Risien, 34, is a resident at the Haven co-living community in Venice, California. Source: Kalen Hayman Cassidy Claire Risien, 34, is an actor and artist living in Los Angeles but, even with her day job as a spin instructor, her budget is tight. Despite that, she lives in a newly renovated townhouse in
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) signage displayed on the side of a grain storage bin at an ADM grain elevator in Niantic, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oxford Industries This week Needham raised its rating on the stock to buy from hold. The company is best known as the maker of apparel brands like
The first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit of a mixed bag for the crypto sphere, but one of the most remarkable happenings has been the rally in Chainlink (LINK). The cryptocurrency has gained as much as 50% over the course of the past month and has emerged as one of the tokens
Economic growth has taken a firm hold in North Las Vegas, Nevada, leading Fitch Ratings to upgrade the suburb’s rating an investment grade BBB-minus. Fitch follows Moody’s Investors Service and S&P Global, both of which had restored the city’s ratings to investment grade by April 2018. The Fitch Ratings upgrade makes North Las Vegas investment-grade
In what must have been a drastic change for Denis Pitcher, chief fintech advisor to the Premier of Bermuda, he and CoinDesk’s Michael Casey took to the chilly streets of Davos to talk about his government’s steps to enable blockchain adoption in the island nation. “In the summer of 2018, we launched a comprehensive regulatory
In “Libre Not Libra: Facebook’s Blockchain Project,” Andreas answers the burning question… Has he tried haggis? Just kidding… He shares his thoughts on the recently released Libra whitepaper, as part of a permissioned blockchain project spearheaded by Facebook. Years of jokes about “FaceCoin” and “ZuckBucks” have finally come to life – sort of. In a
An Aramco employee walks near an oil tank at Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Saudi Arabia. Ahmed Jadallah | Reuters OPEC and its allies could meet soon to discuss deepening their production cuts, in an effort to stem the sharp decline in oil prices due to a demand scare from
A sign advertising home mortgage services at a Bank of America branch in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Millions more borrowers can now save big on a mortgage finance as rates have hit the lowest level in more than three years. The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage
A nurse holds up a one dose bottle and a prepared syringe of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine made by Merck at the Utah County Health Department on April 29, 2019 in Provo, Utah. George Frey | Getty Images The deadly coronavirus worsened quickly this month, roiling the financial markets as investors fled risk
Over the past week or so, Ripple has been in the news after it emerged that the company is exploring the option of actually going for an initial public offering at some point. However, in a new development that might not please XRP fans, it has emerged that as many as 93.5 million tokens of
Municipal bond issuers are taking note after tax-exempt yields have been been falling to historic lows. Twice in the past week, yields on Refinitiv Municipal Market Data’s AAA benchmark scale set record lows. Primary marketIHS Ipreo estimates the week’s volume at $7.06 billion in a calendar composed of $5.80 billion of negotiated deals and $1.26
The zcash community has agreed to continue funding the development of its privacy coin, ZEC, as spearheaded by the Electric Coin Company (ECC) and the Zcash Foundation, according to voting results published by the foundation Thursday. The decision marks the end of a months-long – and often contentious – campaign to address imminent funding losses
Last December Brian Behlendorf is the Executive Director of Hyperledger said that 2019 was a year of “careful, prosaic BUIDLING.” Now, in an interview with CoinDesk’s Michael Casey at Davos, Behlendorf said he believes a lot of what the blockchain ecosystem was building is getting closer to becoming a net positive in the world. Citing
Traders signal offers in the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on September 18, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson As stocks enter the month of February, worries about the coronavirus that slammed stocks in January could continue to
Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain. Ihor_Tailwind | iStock | Getty Images When Petra Ahmann decided to uproot her life in New York and move to Barcelona, she was motivated by the same reason as many other expatriates. She fell in love with the city. “I felt like I could live here,” Ahmann said. An initial trip
Four technology giants now sit on top of the list of most valuable U.S. companies, each worth more than $1 trillion — and there’s a familiar theme to each of their stories. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet have all looked to services and cloud businesses for growth in the past couple of years. In
Former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges filed against him by the US Attorney’s office in relation to a speech he gave at a blockchain conference in North Korea in April 2019. Griffith was arrested on Thanksgiving at Los Angeles International Airport after the FBI alleged that he breached the
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