India's Finance Minister Strikes Stern Tone on Cryptos in Budget Speech
During his annual budget speech, Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley confirmed his position that cryptocurrencies are not legal tender.
View ArticleSamsung Confirms It's Now Making Cryptocurrency Mining Chips
Samsung has confirmed it is now manufacturing cryptocurrency mining chips after reports earlier this week.
View Article2-Month Low: Bitcoin Price Drops Below $9K
The price of bitcoin has fallen below $9,000 for the first time in two months, representing a decline of roughly 11% on the day.
View ArticleSPECTRE Creators Propose 'PHANTOM' Blockchain Protocol
The researchers behind the SPECTRE project have developed another blockchain scaling solution called the PHANTOM protocol.
View ArticleCrypto Cleanup Crew? New Law Practice Focuses on Resolving Messes
Stephen Palley's team will work on mediating disputes and what people in the traditional finance world call "workouts" â fixing distressed situations.
View ArticleBee Token ICO Stung by $1 Million Phishing Scam
Due to a phishing scam, investors in the Bee Token ICO have actually sent nearly $1 million to malicious actors instead.
View ArticleUPS Might Be Making a Locker That Accepts Bitcoin
A new patent application filed by UPS indicates that bitcoin could be used as a payment system.
View ArticleUS Commodities Regulator Beefs Up Bitcoin Futures Review
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued a new checklist as part of the "heightened review process" it's developing for virtual currencies.
View ArticleTezos Has a New Board, But What Does It Mean for the Money?
Tezos may be embroiled in a back-room brawl, but what does this mean for the funds raised at ICO? The answer to that question isn't so clear.
View ArticleEU Launches Blockchain Observatory in Partnership with ConsenSys
The European Union initiative launched Thursday will fund up to $425 million in blockchain projects and draw on ConsenSys' expertise and connections.
View ArticleJanuary's Top Large Cap Crypto? Not Bitcoin or Ether...
Which coins saw big price gains in January? Data shows it wasn't a great month for the more name-brand assets.
View ArticleJapan's FSA Probes Coincheck's Ability to Issue Hack Compensation
Japan's Financial Services Agency is conducting an on-site inspection at Coincheck to see if it can afford to compensate victims of its recent hack.
View ArticleTexas Takes Aim at Overseas ICO with Cease-and-Desist
The Texas State Securities Board is ordering another cease-and-desist to an overseas ICO that allegedly solicited investors from its jurisdiction.
View ArticleBitcoin Slides Towards $8K Amid Market Slump
Bitcoin could be heading for its worst weekly loss since April 2013, but the charts indicate a defense may be in the offing.
View ArticlePhilippines Investigates Crypto Firm over Use of Politician's Name
The Philippines' Department of Justice has ordered an investigation over the alleged misrepresentation of the senate president by a crypto firm.
View ArticleMnuchin Calls for Crypto Regulatory Talk At G20 Summit
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has indicated he is planning to raise the subject of cryptocurrency regulation during an upcoming G20 summit.
View ArticleRed Tide: Double-Digit Losses Sweep Crypto Asset Market
The cryptocurrency markets are a sea of red today, with all the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap reporting double-digit percentage losses for the last 24 hours (at press time). Bitcoin (BTC) has...
View ArticleCopycat Twitter Accounts Seek to Scam Crypto Users
A new type of scam sees Twitter users copying cryptocurrency developers and companies and asking the public to send "donations."
View ArticleChinese Retail Giant JD.com Joins Blockchain in Transport Alliance
The logistics arm of Chinese retail and internet giant JD.com has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.
View ArticleQuantification of systemic risk from overlapping portfolios in the financial...
Financial markets are exposed to systemic risk, the risk that a substantial fraction of the system ceases to function and collapses. Systemic risk can propagate through different mechanisms and...
View ArticleA Supermartingale Relation for Multivariate Risk Measures....
The equivalence between multiportfolio time consistency of a dynamic multivariate risk measure and a supermartingale property is proven. Furthermore, the dual variables under which this set-valued...
View ArticleFormer Iced Tea Maker Cancels Purchase of Bitcoin Mining Rigs
Long Blockchain announced Friday that it was no longer pursuing a purchase of 1,000 AntMiners.
View ArticleCrypto and Forex Scam Reports Tripled in the UK Last Year, Watchdog Says
Reports of cryptocurrency and foreign exchange scams surged in the U.K. last year, while total reported losses dropped, says the FCA.
View ArticlePBoC’s Fintech Research Institute Is Hiring Blockchain Experts
A research institute under the Chinese central bank has just announced 29 job openings â three of which focus on blockchain-related expertise.Â
View ArticleGame of Thrones Actor Jerome Flynn to Advise Vegan Crypto Project
Jerome Flynn, the actor who plays "Bronn" in TV series Game of Thrones, is now an adviser to decentralized vegan lifestyle project VeganNation.
View ArticleTesting Sharpe ratio: luck or skill?. (arXiv:1905.08042v2 [q-fin.RM] UPDATED)
Sharpe ratio (sometimes also referred to as information ratio) is widely used in asset management to compare and benchmark funds and asset managers. It computes the ratio of the (excess) net return...
View ArticleNew copulas based on general partitions-of-unity (part III) - the continuous...
In this paper we discuss a natural extension of infinite discrete partition-of-unity copulas which were recently introduced in the literature to continuous partition of copulas with possible...
View ArticleCraig Wright Attempts to Copyright the Satoshi White Paper and Original...
Craig Wright has filed copyright registrations for the original Satoshi white paper and bitcoin code with the U.S. Copyright Office.
View ArticlePewDiePie Helps Blockchain Video Streaming Platform to 67% Hike in Users
Blockchain-based live streaming service DLive has seen a 67 percent increase in users since popular YouTuber PewDiePie joined the platform in April.
View ArticleCraig Wright Is Playing Three-Dimensional Checkers
Craig Wrights efforts to copyright the Bitcoin archives are genius in a very special way.
View Article$19 Million: Ethereum Foundation to Fund Work on 2.0 Upgrade, Plasma and More
The Ethereum Foundation issued a blog post today outlining how an estimated $30 million would be spent to further develop the ethereum ecosystem.
View ArticleRussia’s Central Depository to Launch Security Token Blockchain Next Month
Russiaâs National Settlement Depository will launch its long-awaited digital asset ledger next month â 5,000 kilometers away from its Moscow HQ.
View Article‘Fortnite’ Maker Teams Up With Crypto’s Steam Competitor to...
The Abyss, a gaming platform built on crypto, is teaming up with "Fortnite" creator Epic Games in a bid to incentivize developers.
View ArticleThe perils of automated fitting of datasets: the case of a wind turbine cost...
Rinne et al. conduct an interesting analysis of the impact of wind turbine technology and land-use on wind power potentials, which allows profound insights into each factors contribution to overall...
View ArticleObligations with Physical Delivery in a Multi-Layered Financial Network....
This paper provides a general framework for modeling financial contagion in a system with obligations in multiple illiquid assets (e.g., currencies). In so doing, we develop a multi-layered financial...
View ArticleA CDS Option Miscellany. (arXiv:1201.0111v3 [q-fin.PR] UPDATED)
CDS options allow investors to express a view on spread volatility and obtain a wider range of payoffs than are possible with vanilla CDS. We give a detailed exposition of different types of...
View ArticleBitcoin Price Stuck Around $8K But Still Up Nearly 50% This Month
Bitcoin is teasing a downside break of its recent trading range, having again faced rejection above $8,000 today.
View ArticleCollapsed Cryptopia Exchange Founder Wants You to Put Funds in His New Project
Adam Clark, creator of the now-defunct Cryptopia, is trying again with a new exchange. Details are slim.
View ArticleUS Copyright Office Says It Does Not ‘Recognize’ Craig Wright as...
No, the U.S. government didn't officially recognize Craig Wright as Satoshi.
View ArticleBinance CEO CZ Is Suing VC Giant Sequoia for Reputational Damages
Binance CEOÂ Changpeng Zhao is taking Sequoia Capital back to court, claiming the VC firm hurt his reputation.
View ArticleState Street’s Blockchain Lead Departs to Build Data Privacy Startup
Moiz Kohari, State Street's global chief technology architect, has left to build a new data privacy startup.
View ArticleReal-time Prediction of Bitcoin bubble Crashes. (arXiv:1905.09647v1 [q-fin.ST])
In the past decade, Bitcoin has become an emerging asset class well known to most people because of their extraordinary return potential in phases of extreme price growth and their unpredictable...
View ArticleSwiss Watchmaker Franck Muller Launches ‘Functional’ Bitcoin...
Swiss luxury watchmaker Franck Muller has launched a limited-edition bitcoin timepiece dubbed âEncryptoâ that comes with a cold wallet.
View ArticleDetection of Chinese Stock Market Bubbles with LPPLS Confidence Indicator....
This paper aims to present an advance bubble detection methodology based on LPPLS confidence indicator for the early causal identification of positive and negative bubbles in the Chinese stock market...
View ArticleDiagnosis and Prediction of the 2015 Chinese Stock Market Bubble....
In this study, we perform a detailed analysis of the 2015 financial bubble in the Chinese stock market by calibrating the Log Periodic Power Law Singularity (LPPLS) model to two important Chinese stock...
View ArticleVariable annuities in a L'evy-based hybrid model with surrender risk....
This paper proposes a market consistent valuation framework for variable annuities with guaranteed minimum accumulation benefit, death benefit and surrender benefit features. The setup is based on a...
View ArticleRep. Eric Swalwell Is Accepting Crypto Donations in Bid for US Presidency
Rep. Eric Swalwell is accepting donations in six cryptocurrencies to support his bid for the U.S. presidency in 2020.
View ArticleTechnological Learning and Innovation Gestation Lags at the Frontier of...
This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of Big Science Centres on technological innovation. We exploit a unique dataset with information on CERN's procurement orders to study the...
View ArticleMachine Learning Tree and Exact Integration for Pricing American Options in...
In this paper we modify the Gaussian Process Regression Monte Carlo (GPR-MC) method introduced by Gouden`ege et al. proposing two efficient techniques which allow one to compute the price of American...
View ArticleEconomics, Ecology and Ethics
I spent the first part of the week at the eco**2 meeting, sponsored by the British Ecological Society and the LSE's Systemic Risk Centre and exploring the relationship between economics and ecology. I...
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