Michael Kern

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Contributor since: 21 Feb 2018

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• Paying For Populism In 2019

  Published 02 January 2019 | viewed 3,230 times

  Populism may have made some massive gains in 2018, from Brazil to Italy and a number of venues in between, but economics is likely to…

• Japan Regains Bitcoin Crown As Yen Trading Volume Soars

  Published 28 December 2018 | viewed 5,133 times

  Japan is making major moves in the cryptocurrency world, with new legislation aiming to pave the way for a more supportive and secure regulatory backdrop…

• What The Mt. Gox Trial Can Tell Us About Bitcoin Markets

  Published 27 December 2018 | viewed 6,252 times

  The two-and-a-half year Mt. Gox trial is nearing an end, and former CEO Mark Karpelès is sticking to his guns, denying the embezzlement and manipulation…

• The Most Desirable Profession In Tech

  Published 20 December 2018 | viewed 7,506 times

  With blockchain technology poised to upend virtually every industry on the planet, from global resource distribution to big finance, it’s safe to say that developers…

• Corporate Bounty-Hunting Raked In $168M This Year

  Published 12 December 2018 | viewed 2,490 times

  The SEC is loving the new whistleblower atmosphere that is living large in the aftermath of Bernie Madoff and the financial crisis. Employees with a…

• Bitcoin Miners Reel As IPO Dreams Crumble

  Published 11 December 2018 | viewed 7,300 times

  The Bitcoin rout has claimed many victims, from everyday investors to medium-sized miners, but now, even some of the industry’s biggest names are being forced…

• Asia’s Wealthiest Double Down On Blockchain Tech

  Published 07 December 2018 | viewed 13,089 times

  Recently, a group of some of the most promising entrepreneurs in Asia gathered in Singapore to learn more about tech and its potential use cases…

• Huawei Plummets As CFO Faces Extradition To The U.S.

  Published 06 December 2018 | viewed 3,022 times

  Beijing is demanding the immediate release of the CFO and deputy chairwoman of Chinese tech giant Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, who has been arrested in Canada…

• U.S. Treasury Sanctions Bitcoin Wallets For First Time

  Published 04 December 2018 | viewed 8,040 times

  Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted two bitcoin addresses, announcing that the wallets associated Iranian citizens Ali Khorashadizadeh and…

• Maduro Triples Minimum Wage, Raises Price Of “El Petro”

  Published 03 December 2018 | viewed 7,560 times

  Late last week, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ordered a hike in the value of the country’s state-sponsored cryptocurrency ‘el petro.’ In an announcement on Thursday,…

• Investors Lost $4M In This Celebrity-Endorsed Crypto Scam

  Published 01 December 2018 | viewed 7,232 times

  Federal authorities have arrested the CEO of a cryptocurrency operator based in Dallas for allegedly defrauding investors out of $4 million in a digital coin…

• SEC Boss Speaks Out Against Bitcoin ETF

  Published 28 November 2018 | viewed 5,220 times

  The cryptocurrency community has been eagerly awaiting the approval of a Bitcoin ETF since early November, when U.S. regulatory agencies were supposed to officially announce…

• Apple Reels On Trump Tariff Threat

  Published 27 November 2018 | viewed 3,084 times

  If negotiations with Beijing fail at the G20 this week, Trump is prepared to push the tariff limits by targeting another $267 billion in goods,…

• Bitmain Faces $5 Million Lawsuit

  Published 26 November 2018 | viewed 6,187 times

  Bitmain is in hot water once again, facing a $5 million class action lawsuit from customers who allege the firm was using its hardware to…

• SEC Crackdown On ICOs Leads To New Lawsuits

  Published 20 November 2018 | viewed 15,886 times

  According to legal analytics firm Lex Machina, cryptocurrency related lawsuits are up over 300 percent this year, with over 45 legal cases opened in the…

• Europe’s “Link Tax” Could Kill Its Internet Sector

  Published 19 November 2018 | viewed 2,785 times

  With Europe’s proposed “link tax” facing its final vote in early 2019, Google is making pre-emptive threats to shut down Google News in Europe, citing…

• Iran Turns To Crypto As SWIFT Cuts Off Central Bank

  Published 15 November 2018 | viewed 6,113 times

  On November 5th, the United States put into effect the harshest round of sanctions on Iran to date, scaling back Tehran’s ability to do business…

• An Army Of ‘Verified’ Twitter Accounts Is Promoting Bitcoin Scams

  Published 14 November 2018 | viewed 3,517 times

  Google and Target are the latest to fall victim to malicious actors who hijack official ‘verified’ Twitter accounts in order to promote a “Bitcoin Giveaway…

• How To Play The 5G Revolution

  Published 13 November 2018 | viewed 3,199 times

  One of the biggest tech industry stories of next year will likely be 5G—the next-gen of cellular technology that will redefine speed and responsiveness, making…

• Virtual Reality Real Estate Could Become A Billion Dollar Business

  Published 11 November 2018 | viewed 4,713 times

  Earlier this week, someone reportedly paid $215,000 for a 126-parcel estate. It sounds like a steal, except in terms of “location, location, location”, which in…