Venezuela to Peg Pension, Salary Systems to Petro Cryptocurrency
Venezuela is set to begin using its "petro" cryptocurrency as an official accounting unit, according to the country's president.
View ArticleKaspersky: Cryptocurrency Scammers Stole $2.3 Million in Q2
Cybercriminals earned more than $2.3 million from cryptocurrency scams during the second quarter of 2018, a new study reports.
View ArticleBitcoin's Taproot Privacy Tech Is Ready – But One Thing's Standing In...
Bitcoin could get better privacy with Taproot, but there's one big obstacle - it can't be deployed until another technology goes through.
View ArticleFor The First Time - The Israeli Public Will Be Able To Compare Trading Fees...
TASE’s CEO, Ittai Ben-Zeev: “This is another stage in the joint process executed by the Ministry of Finance and the Israel Securities Authority towards restructuring TASE’s ownership, similarly to...
View ArticleMessaging Giant LINE Launches $10 Million Token Venture Fund
LINE has announced yet another move into the cryptocurrency space with the launch of a $10 million token venture fund.
View ArticlePrime Trust Enters Crypto Custody Race, Will Hold 'Any' Ethereum Token
Prime Trust, a Nevada trust company, says it can handle custody for bitcoin, ether and any token issued on ethereum under the ERC-20 standard.
View ArticleHKEX Appoints Group Chief Communications Officer
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), today (Wednesday) announced that it has appointed Tori Cowley as its Group Chief Communications Officer. She will relocate from London to Hong Kong and...
View ArticleDubai Financial Market Achieves 100% Compliance In Local Public Listed...
Dubai Financial Market (DFM) today announced that its local public listed companies have recorded a 100% compliance regarding the disclosure of Q2-2018 results within the deadline of 45 days from the...
View ArticleY Combinator's New China Chief Is Bullish on Blockchain
Lu Qi, the head of Y Combinator's new China division, believes blockchain has great potential for entrepreneurship in the long run.
View ArticleBreakdown Over? Bitcoin Indicators Suggest Price Outlook Is Improving
Bitcoin looks to have fought off recent bear attacks that saw prices landing just above the yearly low of $5,755.
View ArticleEnd of the Stupid Bull RunEnd of the Stupid Bull Run
Crypto markets have been taking some major hits over the last few days, with the market cap touching almost 200B. We see a significant rise in Bitcoin dominance and return fundamentals. Are we seeing...
View ArticleR.J. O’Brien Names Stephen Brodsky To New Role Of Chief Strategy Officer
Chicago-based R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), the oldest and largest independent futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, today announced that Stephen A. Brodsky – long-time...
View ArticleSBI Holdings Again Invests in Crypto Exchange Under Scrutiny
SBI Holdings is making a new round of investment in a cryptocurrency exchange that's under increased scrutiny from the country's financial regulator.
View ArticleThe World Federation Of Exchanges Proposes Enhancements To FSB’s Cyber...
The World Federation of Exchanges (“WFE”), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, has today published its response to the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) Cyber Lexicon Consultation.read...
View ArticleTaking PISA Seriously: How Accurate are Low Stakes Exams? -- by s. Pelin...
PISA is seen as the gold standard for evaluating educational outcomes worldwide. Yet, as it is a low-stakes exam, students may not take it seriously resulting in downward biased scores and inaccurate...
View ArticleHousehold Portfolio Underdiversification and Probability Weighting: Evidence...
We explore the relation between probability weighting and household portfolio underdiversification in a representative household survey, using custom-designed incentivized lotteries. On average, people...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Longevity: Evidence from Canada -- by Kevin Milligan, Tammy...
We find a steep earnings-longevity gradient using fifty years of administrative data from Canada, with men in the top ventile of earnings living eight years (11 percent) longer than those in the bottom...
View ArticleOrganizational Decision Making Under Uncertainty Shocks -- by Luis...
In line with the fallacy of riskification of uncertainty by which decision makers believe that the effects of unpredictable phenomena can be captured accurately by probability distributions,...
View ArticleHuman-Capital Externalities in China -- by Edward L. Glaeser, Ming Lu
This paper provides evidences of heterogeneous human-capital externality using CHIP 2002, 2007 and 2013 data from urban China. After instrumenting city-level education using the number of relocated...
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