The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained a court order to halt an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering by Dallas-based AriseBank, which was depicted as the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency banking product, it was announced Tuesday. The SEC noted that AriseBank used a celebrity endorsement as one tactic to raise what it claims to […]
FanDuel is offering thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoin to users competing in its upcoming NFL fantasy sports playoffs, in what the company says will be the first fantasy football contest to award Bitcoin to winners and the first sports tech company to award cryptocurrency in a consumer promotion. During Week 2 of the NFL […]
A new sponsorship deal with a billionaire Bitcoin broker will see one hockey club’s arena in Denmark rebranded to promote cryptocurrencies and its top player (the son of one of the owners) paid exclusively in Bitcoin, a volatile digital coin that has skyrocketed in value over the past few months. On Dec. 27, Bitcoin Suisse, […]
A new social network is paying users to post — as long as their content is verified. OnG.Social, the social media platform of parent company OneName Global, Inc., allows users to create posts using a centralized dashboard that can then distribute those posts on a user’s other social networks — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. These […]
