Michael Kern

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Contributor since: 21 Feb 2018

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• Bitcoin Hash Rate Stutters After Chinese Floods

  Published 04 July 2018 | viewed 4,212 times

  China is the world’s undisputed leader in bitcoin mining and home to the largest mining pools including AntPool, BTCC, F2Pool and BW. Despite feverish efforts…

• The Crypto Payment Conundrum

  Published 03 July 2018 | viewed 2,286 times

  Back in May, the World Cup was being touted as a huge opportunity for bitcoin to function as a payment option, and by extension, see…

• The Leaders In The Quantum Computing Race

  Published 29 June 2018 | viewed 4,039 times

  "All is waves, with nothing waving, over no distance at all." That’s a famous line in a fantasy duology describing the basics of magic. Interestingly,…

• The Exclusive Clubs Controlling Crypto Markets

  Published 28 June 2018 | viewed 4,110 times

  John McAfee might be one of the most polarizing individuals in crypto. He’s known for his outlandish antics, an ongoing feud with the SEC, crypto-of-the-day…

• This E-Commerce Giant Turned Into A Lobbying Powerhouse

  Published 26 June 2018 | viewed 5,315 times

  Amazon is much more than an e-commerce giant and the world’s largest online marketplace. It’s much more than a tech giant, too. It’s a lobbying…

• Tech Giants Under Fire For Facial Recognition

  Published 21 June 2018 | viewed 3,557 times

  From concerns about mass surveillance to the inhumane separation of thousands of children from their parents at the borders, the relationship of giant tech companies…

• Crypto Heists Are On The Rise

  Published 16 June 2018 | viewed 2,986 times

  This year is poised to go down in fame as the worst in terms of cryptocurrency theft, with cybersecurity firm Carbon Black reporting a whopping $1.1 billion…

• The Tech Fueling The Fourth Industrial Revolution

  Published 15 June 2018 | viewed 3,495 times

  Just a few short years after economists and social theorists declared that we had entered the Third Industrial Revolution, the next revolution is already on…

• Moscow Exchange To Launch First ICO Data Platform

  Published 12 June 2018 | viewed 2,508 times

  The world of initial coin offerings (ICOs) is decidedly Russian, and now the country’s largest stock exchange operator is getting ready to roll out the…

• Dennis Rodman Aims To Unite North Korea And The U.S.

  Published 09 June 2018 | viewed 3,448 times

  In waiting to find out if a nuclear war is fated, the entire world has been put at ease by the news that Dennis Rodman…

• IMF Rescues Argentina With Its Biggest Loan Ever

  Published 08 June 2018 | viewed 1,929 times

  In what will be the largest-ever IMF loan to any country in the world, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has granted Argentina a $50-million stand-by…

• Argentina’s Economic Crisis And The Case For Bitcoin

  Published 05 June 2018 | viewed 2,941 times

  Argentina’s current economic troubles are likely to get worse before they get better. And with the second highest inflation rate in South America, behind Venezuela,…

• Crypto Bulls Misread Beijing’s Love For Blockchain

  Published 04 June 2018 | viewed 2,272 times

  Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech last week lauding the powers of blockchain technology as revolutionary has sparked a flurry of bullish speculation that the country…

• Bitcoin Plummets On Price Manipulation Investigation

  Published 24 May 2018 | viewed 3,635 times

  Reports that the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has launched a criminal probe into potential illegal manipulation of cryptocurrency prices has seen bitcoin lose 3…

• The Battle For Shkreli's $2 Million Wu-Tang Record

  Published 23 May 2018 | viewed 2,267 times

  Martin Shkreli, who was convicted of securities fraud in March and is serving a seven-year prison sentence, may not be challenging the government any longer,…

• The Wild World Of Celebrity Endorsed ICOs

  Published 21 May 2018 | viewed 2,424 times

  The crypto-crowdfunding craze has been a double-edged sword in the wild world of digital assets. While there are, and will continue to be, plenty of…

• The Key Takeaways From Blockchain's Biggest Week

  Published 17 May 2018 | viewed 2,619 times

  A ticket to the 2018 CoinDesk Consensus blockchain conference in New York cost almost as much as a Super Bowl ticket, and attendance was around…

• Iran Looks To Bitcoin As Rial Tumbles

  Published 16 May 2018 | viewed 4,653 times

  Amid sanctions fears, Iranians have reportedly spent over $2.5 billion on cryptocurrencies to get their cash out of the country in a new form of…

• Is Facebook Planning Its Own Cryptocurrency?

  Published 15 May 2018 | viewed 1,920 times

  Facebook seems serious about launching its own cryptocurrency with a focus on cross-border payments, but while talk of this adds more meat to the global…

• HSBC Hits Milestone With Its First Blockchain Trade

  Published 14 May 2018 | viewed 2,205 times

  Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock recently knows that blockchain—the digital ledger tech that underpins cryptocurrency—is moving quickly to disrupt pretty much every…