Dominica partners with Huobi for digital identity program
Dominica has launched a digital identity program and national token in partnership with cryptocurrency exchange, Huobi. Huobi and the Commonwealth of Dominica have joined to launch a digital identification and national token service that aims to give the West Indian island nation’s residents digital citizenship. Dominica, which is not to be mistaken with the neighbouring, […]
FTX to resume paying staff, contractors’ salaries
Troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX revealed that it would “resume conventional” cash payments, salaries, and benefits to its surviving staff members worldwide excluding former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, and certain former execs. The announcement was made on November 28 by John Ray III, the newly appointed CEO of FTX, as the insolvency expert works to assist […]
BlockFi sues Sam Bankman-Fried over shares in Robinhood
Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender BlockFi is suing FTX’s Bankman-Fried’s investment company Emergent Fidelity Technologies to turn over its $575M stake in Robinhood as collateral it agreed to pay. Sam Bankman-holding Fried’s firm has been sued by now bankrupt cryptocurrency lending business BlockFi for the shares of Robinhood that Bankman-Fried promised as collateral earlier this month. Just […]
LBRY reveals forced censorship with Apple during COVID-19
Following Elon Musk’s tweet about a reduced activity of Apple’s advertising on Twitter, blockchain-based file-sharing and payment network LBRY commented that Apple forced it to censor certain terms during COVID-19. LBRY asserts in a November 28 tweet that the company was instructed to conceal all references to COVID-19, including immunizations and the human origins of […]