The first federally regulated platform for trading Bitcoin futures is off to a slow start, but predicted to pick up steam over time.
Kirill Bryanov
Kirill Bryanov is a PhD researcher at Lousiana State University. His scholarly interests center on political and societal implications of communication technology, with a focus on blockchain-powered decentalized architectures.
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Craig Wright’s Hidden Treasures: Court Order to Unlock the Tulip Trust A U.S. judge ruled that Craig Wright must give up half of what he and Dave Kleiman mined together — but how much is that?
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Crypto Custody: Adoption Shortcut or Blockchain Purists’ Nightmare? With Coinbase becoming the world’s largest institutional custodian of digital assets, the crypto community is left to wonder what it means for the industry...
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How Do Crypto Exchanges Select Coins, What Does It Take to Get Listed? As the crypto industry becomes more structured, major exchanges develop policy frameworks to evaluate the process of listing new tokens and delisting others...
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Who Is David Marcus: Bitcoin Believer Turned Facebook Libra Co-Creator David Marcus, the man who has come to personify the seismic change in the global financial system, has come a long way to the helm of Facebook’s Libra...
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Behind Ripple’s Regulation Call: ‘Do Not Paint Us With a Broad Brush’ Ripple has a long history of pro-regulation declarations and actions, but this time, its fervor appears to be profoundly reactive...
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Bank of America’s Blockchain Foray: Patent Trolling or Hedging Risks? While the nation’s second-largest bank is remarkably active in registering novel blockchain-powered solutions, critics fear that this might be not in the indust...
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Trump Tweets Crypto Rant — What Is the Bitcoin Reference Really About? President Donald Trump’s mention of cryptocurrencies is historic, but the blockchain industry deserves a more serious conversation...
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CFTC’s New Chairman: Who Is Heath Tarbert, What He Thinks of Crypto? An Oxford scholar, Supreme Court Justice’s clerk and an international financial regulator: Meet the new CFTC Chairman...
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Crypto Industry in Numbers: How Does Q2 2019 Compare to the Past The surge in crypto prices in Q2 of 2019 is backed by a respective growth in fundamental indicators...
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Quantum Computing Vs. Blockchain: Impact on Cryptography Quantum computers will not kill blockchain, but they might trigger fundamental changes in underlying cryptography.
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Discovering Insuretech: Blockchain Disruption of the Insurance Sector The insurance sector is riddled with inefficiencies — and distributed ledger technology is on a mission to fix them.
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A Blockchain System for Azerbaijan’s Digital Economy A Caucasian nation is on the path to digital transformation, and blockchain-powered identification system is one of its cornerstones.
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Grand Theft Crypto: The State of Cryptocurrency-Stealing Malware and Other Nasty Techniques In 2019, centralized exchanges and individual hodlers are losing record-breaking sums of digital money to hackers and scammers.
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The Strange Case of CCN and the Google June 2019 Core Update One of the oldest crypto sites shuts down, then comes back up immediately, citing loss of traffic.
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