Cryptocurrency

(DFN) — Google has announced that it will be cracking down on cryptocurrency-related advertising, furthering the “crypto blackout” online. According to new policies relating to financial services to be rolled out in June, among newly banned content will be anything related to cryptocurrency: “Cryptocurrencies and related content (including but not limited to initial coin offerings, cryptocurrency exchanges, cryptocurrency wallets, and cryptocurrency […]

Today James welcomes back Derrick Broze of TheConsciousResistance.com for a wide-ranging conversation on the pros and cons of cryptocurrency and its potential to fund independent journalism. We also go in-depth into Derrick's new (free) Holistic Self-Assessment and the importance of better understanding and improving ourselves before we change the world.

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2018-03-12%20Derrick%20Broze.mp3"][/audio]Today James welcomes back Derrick Broze of TheConsciousResistance.com for a wide-ranging conversation on the pros and cons of cryptocurrency and its potential to fund independent journalism. We also go in-depth into Derrick's new (free) Holistic Self-Assessment and the importance of better understanding and improving ourselves before we change the world.

(ANTIMEDIA) —  A federal crackdown may be looming over the cryptocurrency world. On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a warning on “potentially unlawful” online platforms used to trade digital assets. “The SEC staff has concerns that many online trading platforms appear to investors as SEC-registered and regulated marketplaces when they are not,” the statement read. “Many platforms refer to themselves […]

(ANTIMEDIA) Republic of the Marshall Islands — In a move that, for anyone following the progress of cryptocurrencies, was truly inevitable, the world’s first country has adopted a digital asset as legal tender. From the Associated Press (AP): “The tiny Marshall Islands is creating its own digital currency in order to raise some hard cash to pay bills and boost the […]

It’s becoming clear that Bitcoin was only the beginning of a much bigger revolution in digital finance and investment. Here’s another potentially exciting new Bloc Chain trend here…

Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne announces his company’s new ground-breaking cryptocurrency offering, which extends beyond just the tokens themselves – and into a whole digital financial infrastructure which he believes will be able to one day take on the Masters of the Universe in Wall Street. Watch:

(ANTIMEDIA) It’s been an embattled year so far for Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency world in general. The start of the year saw a precipitous drop in Bitcoin value, marking somewhere around blockchain’s 250th death. Then, numerous financial institutions, government regulatory agencies, and elite moguls rubbed salt in the wounds with a series of rhetorical attacks aimed at discrediting cryptocurrency and dismissing it […]

Imagine an international currency backed by energy? By a raw material that the entire world needs, not gold – which has hardly any productive use, but whose value is mostly speculative – not hot air like the US dollar. Not fiat money like the US-dollar and the Euro largely made by private banks without any economic substance whatsoever, and which are coercive. But a currency based on the very source for economic output – energy.

The second largest bank by total assets, Bank of America, detailed in an annual report to the SEC that cryptocurrencies pose a threat to their business model.