Winklevoss Crypto Exchange Wins Approval to Trade Zcash
Gemini exchange has added zcash trading and custody services in New York after receiving authorization from state's Department of Financial Services.
View ArticleBlockchain Startup Enigma to Demo 'Secret Contracts' Privacy Tech
Enigma will conduct the first public demonstration of its "secret contracts" protocol, which revamps smart contracts to provide data privacy.
View ArticleCircle Becomes 'Bitcoin Unicorn' With Bitmain-Backed Mega-Round
Bitmain is investing big in blockchain firm Circle as part of an ambitious bid to clean up one of the more gray aspects of the crypto economy.
View ArticleUS Regulators Say They Want to Avoid 'Hindering' Blockchain Innovation
U.S. regulators don't aim to suppress innovation in the blockchain industry, representatives said during a panel at CoinDesk's Consensus 2018.
View ArticleVLOG: Consensus 2018 Begins!VLOG: Consensus 2018 Begins!
Consensus 2018 just started, bringing over 8500+ blockchain experts and investor! I give you guys an inside scoop of what's happening and interview Wanchain, Tony G, Lisk, Decred, Keep Key. Brining it...
View ArticleSocial Investing Platform eToro Expanding Crypto Trading to US
Social investing platform eToro will launch a full-fledged cryptocurrency exchange and mobile wallet and expand to the U.S. this year.
View ArticleCNET Founder Closes $50 Million ICO for Video Streaming Token
CNET founder and early Salesforce investor Halsey Minor has revealed new details on his latest cryptocurrency project VideoCoin.
View ArticleBitLicense Refugees: Kraken, ShapeShift CEOs Talk Escape from New York
Jesse Powell and Erik Voorhees delivered red-meat rhetoric but also made subtler points about New York's cryptocurrency regulations at Consensus 2018.
View ArticleLympo (LYM) Interview: Can Blockchain make me Healthy?Lympo (LYM) Interview:...
Ada, the co-founder of Lympo (LYM) explains how they are using blockchain to make the world healthier and #cryptofit. I personally took on a challenge with Tony G to lose 10% of our body weight and...
View ArticleWall Street Vet Brian Kelly Launches Blockchain ETF
Investment manager Brian Kelly is launching a blockchain-focused exchange-traded fund, or ETF, he announced Wednesday.
View ArticleBear Revival? Bitcoin Risks Fall Below $8K After 3.5-Week Low
Bitcoin hit a 3.5-week low of $8,100 earlier today and now risks a bear revival, the price chart analysis indicates.
View ArticleEnterprise Ethereum Alliance Unveils Common Blockchain Standards
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance announced the release of a common technical specification at Consensus 2018 on Wednesday.
View ArticleICO Project Polymath Is Trying to Buy a Stake In a Real Stock Exchange
If one announcement summarizes the ambitions of crypto project Polymath, it might be Wednesday's acquisition of the domain "Tokens.com" One of its several this week, it cuts to the heart of the...
View ArticleChanges in Nutrient Intake at Retirement -- by Melvin Stephens Jr., Desmond...
While the literature finding a decrease in food expenditures at retirement suggests households do not adequately save for retirement, subsequent evidence that nutrient intake is unaffected by...
View ArticleAn Assessment of the Forward-Looking Hypothesis of the Demand for Cigarettes...
In this article we develop a model of the demand for cigarettes that incorporates forward-looking behavior related to the adverse health consequences of smoking and the addictive nature of cigarettes....
View ArticleEnergy Productivity and Energy Demand: Experimental Evidence from Indian...
This paper studies a field experiment among energy-intensive Indian manufacturing plants that offered energy consulting to raise energy productivity, the amount plants can produce with each unit of...
View ArticleEstimating Latent Asset-Pricing Factors -- by Martin Lettau, Markus Pelger
We develop an estimator for latent factors in a large-dimensional panel of financial data that can explain expected excess returns. Statistical factor analysis based on Principal Component Analysis...
View ArticleThe other 1%: Class Leavening, Contamination and Voting for Redistribution --...
We perform an experiment to measure how changes in the effort exerted by a small fraction of a low-reward group affect the willingness of the high-reward group to vote for redistributive taxation. We...
View ArticlePartial Identification of the Distribution of Treatment Effects with an...
We bound the distribution of treatment effects under plausible and testable assumptions on the joint distribution of potential outcomes, namely that potential outcomes are mutually stochastically...
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