The police service of the Canadian city of Calgary is launching a Cryptocurrency Investigations Centre in partnership with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis to help combat crypto crime. The center “will enable law enforcement to tackle crime that takes place using blockchain technology,” Chainalysis described. Canada’s Cryptocurrency Investigations Centre The police service of Calgary, the largest city in the western Canadian…
Chinese banks are opening bank accounts for regulated crypto companies, with several acting as a payment layer for the crypto platforms. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/public/index.php/news/china-s-state-affiliated-banks-are-on-boarding-crypto-companies-in-hong-kong
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a complaint against the Seattle-based exchange as Bittrex prepares to stop offering services in the United… Source: https://cointelegraph.com/public/index.php/news/sec-charges-bittrex-with-unregistered-operations-calls-six-tokens-securities
Ray Youssef—ex-CEO of the now-shuttered peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace Paxful—triumphantly announced yesterday that withdrawals are now unfrozen for the vast majority of users. “Sleepless night with no engineers or compliance folks but we did it,” Youssef wrote. “This is my final act as CEO of Paxful.” According to a tweet from the former executive, 88% of frozen Paxful user accounts are…
The tech billionaire made the announcement during a Fox interview on April 17. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/public/index.php/news/elon-musk-to-launch-truth-seeking-artificial-intelligence-platform-truthgpt
A.I. is coming for our jobs! Or not. It depends on who you ask. Since the public launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November, the predicted shift to an artificial intelligence-driven workforce has stoked concerns about what comes next. In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the worry we’re seeing in the early stages…
Hester Peirce, a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has issued her opinion on the recent attempts of the institution to change the definition of “exchange” under the Exchange Act Rule. According to Peirce, the institution is now expanding its reach to solve “problems that do not exist,” stifling innovation in the process. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce…
Bank of England deputy governor Sir Jon Cunliffe spoke at the Innovative Finance Global Summit in London on April 17 about the development of tokenization. The UK’s central bank is currently exploring tokenization in bank money, non-bank money and central bank money and the ways tokenized assets will interact. Stablecoins, Cunliffe said, “offer the possibility of greater efficiency and functionality…
According to an Apr. 18 post by Fox News, Elon Musk told the media outlet’s anchor Tucker Carlson that he’s developing a ChatGPT rival in the form of “TruthGPT,” a large language model (LLM) that Musk says will be trained to explore the mysteries of the universe. “I’m going to start something which I call TruthGPT, or a maximum truth-seeking…
Academia and science are both in the throes of a crisis, marked by several inefficiencies directly impacting our scientific prowess and research capabilities. The subject of stagnation within universities and academic institutions is taboo, and there is no place in this system for dissenting intellectuals who challenge the status quo or the quality of scientific research. Decentralized science (DeSci) aims…
