Crypto Startups Push Swiss VC Investments to a Record $1.25B
Startups based in Switzerland have attracted a record amount of venture capital in 2018 and companies from the cryptocurrency industry have contributed to the notable increase. Zug, which is...
Study Finds Three Quarters of Attendees at Crypto Events Are Male
A recently released report confirms a well-known observation – crypto-focused events are still largely male-dominated, not only in terms of registrants in general but also speakers. According to another...
Defying Crypto Winter, Swiss Crypto Valley Grows to 750 Companies
A new survey shows that the cluster of companies working with cryptocurrencies and related technologies in the Swiss Crypto Valley has expanded, despite the onset of what has been...
Poll: 63 Percent of Senior Execs Lack Understanding of Blockchain Tech
A recent poll of institutional investors by the Global...
18 Months Away? Latest Lightning Network Study Calls System a ‘Small Central Clique’
The Lightning Network has been touted as the solution to the Bitcoin Core (BTC) network’s scalability problem for years now. Over the last few months, the Lightning Network has...
Central Bank Official: Regulators Are Hindering the Development of Cryptocurrencies
An excessive number of regulatory agencies are interfering with the prospects of successful development of cryptocurrencies in Ukraine, according to a high-ranking representative of the country’s central bank. What...
Major Mining Pools Have a ‘High Die-Off Rate’ Study Reveals
On Monday, Coinmetrics.io published a study looking at hashrate history of the most competitive BTC mining pools. The research from the open source cryptocurrency analytics site reveals interesting insights into...
South African Officials Create Regulatory Working Group Dedicated to Cryptocurrencies
The Minister of Finance of South Africa, Tito Mboweni, explained in a letter on Jan. 2 that the region’s government has created a regulatory working group dedicated to cryptocurrencies....
Private Blockchains Have Few Applications, Study Finds
Despite all efforts, so far businesses haven’t been able to come up with significant applications for private, centralized blockchains as opposed to public distributed ledgers, a new study shows....
