Progress On Ethereum Privacy Projects Is Slowing
The promise of private ethereum smart contracts remains undiminished, though a conference this week showcased that challenges that persisting today.
View ArticleBears in Control, But Bitcoin Eyes $8K Defense
Bitcoin's 28 percent drop this week has turned the tide in favor of the bears, but a sustained break below $8,000 looks unlikely in the short-run.
View ArticleCannabis Publication to Launch on Civil's Decentralized News Platform
Cannabis Wire, a trade publication dedicated marijuana industry coverage, is launching a newsroom on blockchain-based journalism platform Civil.
View ArticleBitcoin Mining Giant Bitmain Sets Up Secret US Subsidiary
New reports indicate that crypto mining firm Bitmain is quietly preparing to open new facilities in Washington state.
View ArticleCash for HODL? NY Wealth Manager to Issue Loans Against Bitcoin
New York family office Dominion Capital is launching a product for a new breed of consumer that's "crypto rich" but low on cash.
View ArticleOKCoin CEO Hints at China Cooperation In Leaked Chat
Star Xu, the founder of Chinese crypto exchange OKCoin, is sparking controversy with remarks his firm may be open to working with the government.
View ArticleBitcoin Drops 20% But Wasn't Week's Big Crypto Price Loser
How bad were the crypto markets this week? Bitcoin lost nearly one-quarter of its value and it still wasn't the week's big loser.
View ArticleMarc Andreessen, Craft Ventures Back Crypto Hedge Fund Multicoin
Crypto investment fund Multicoin Capital has announced that investors including Marc Andreessen are taking part in its $250 million flagship fund.
View ArticleCongress Must 'Push Back' Against Overregulation of Blockchain, Says US Rep
"Keeping the dogs at bay" is Rep. Tom Emmer's goal. The Congressional Blockchain Caucus member worries overzealous regulation could stifle innovation.
View ArticleTennessee Is Closer to Barring Retirement Funds from Crypto Investments
The Tennessee Senate Ways and Means Committee has voted to advance a bill banning public retirement trusts from investing in cryptocurrencies.
View ArticleSEC Foils Penny Stock Executive’s Plan To Pump Stock And Exploit Investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission today barred the president of a penny stock company from ever again serving as a public company officer or director after he was caught making false and...
View ArticleTMX Group Wins Information Technology Deal Of The Year - Canadian Dealmakers...
TMX Group was awarded the Information Technology Deal of the Year by Canadian Dealmakers at their annual gala event last evening in Toronto. The awards honour excellence in mergers and acquisitions,...
View ArticleEEX And EPEX SPOT Publish Joint Response To The First Edition Of The Bidding...
EEX and EPEX SPOT welcome the opportunity to provide an evaluation of the draft report of the first edition of the Bidding Zone Review (BZR). We suggest a number of changes to the process and analysis...
View ArticleMedical Malpractice Reforms and the Location Decisions of New Physicians --...
Spatial inequalities in access to physicians is a long-standing problem in the US, and it may be an important underlying cause of SES-related and racial/ethnic disparities in health outcomes. One...
View ArticleReach for Yield and Fickle Capital Flows -- by Ricardo J. Caballero, Alp Simsek
In Caballero and Simsek (2018), we develop a model of fickle capital flows and show that, when countries are similar, international flows create global liquidity and mitigate crises despite their...
View ArticleBlockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts -- by Lin William Cong, Zhiguo He
Blockchain technology features decentralized consensus as well as tamper-proof and algorithmic executions, and consequently enlarges the contracting space through smart contracts. Meanwhile, the...
View ArticleThe Efficiency and Sectoral Distributional Implications of Large-Scale...
Renewable policies have grown in popularity across states in the US, and worldwide. The costs and benefits from renewable policies are unevenly distributed across several margins. The incidence of...
View ArticleClimate Adaptive Response Estimation: Short And Long Run Impacts Of Climate...
This paper proposes a simple two-step estimation method (Climate Adaptive Response Estimation - CARE) to estimate sectoral climate damage functions, which account for long- run adaptation. The paper...
View ArticleQuality of Judicial Institutions, Crimes, Misdemeanors, and Dishonesty -- by...
We investigate the extent to which the quality of judicial institutions has an impact on individuals' propensity for criminal and dishonest behavior and on their views regarding the acceptability of...
View ArticleConcentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence From Online Vacancy Data -- by...
Using data on the near-universe of online US job vacancies collected by Burning Glass Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) for each...
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