[ad_2][ad_1] Last year, when Facebook officials were hauled in front of Congress to defend their plans for a cryptocurrency called Libra, they arrived with a speech on financial inclusion. With Libra, people anywhere in the world would have access to a common payment network, they said, regardless of whether they …
Read More »Ripple Hires Chief Economist To Manage Massive Cryptocurrency Portfolio, Oversees 54,642,632,616 XRP
[ad_2][ad_1] Ripple is now looking for a chief economist to help create a strategy for the company’s massive XRP holdings. Ripple claims it currently owns 54,642,632,616 XRP, which is more than half of the third largest cryptocurrency’s total offering. In December 2017, the company pledged not to sell all of …
Read More »Twitter hires a notorious hacker as its head of security months after the Bitcoin Scam
[ad_2][ad_1] Twitter hired a new security chief four months after suffering one of the worst breaches in its 14-year history. As reported by Reuters on Monday, Peiter Zatko, a prominent white-hat hacker named “Mudge,” said he will take care of security, site integrity and engineering on behalf of the social …
Read More »A PayPal-backed blockchain analytics firm hires the former US Treasury adviser
[ad_2][ad_1] Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs has appointed Ari Redbord, the former head of the U.S. Treasury and Financial Crimes (FinCEN), to help build risk-based anti-money laundering (AML) programs for cryptocurrency and digital assets. Redbord joins TRM Labs as the company’s head of legal and government affairs. At the Treasury, …
Read More »CoinPayments launches Global Business Development & Partnerships team, hires key executives in North America and Europe to drive growth
[ad_2][ad_1] GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands, 6 August 2020 / PRNewswire / – CoinPayments, the world’s leading cryptocurrency payment processor, today announced the launch of its global development and partnership team, set to drive growth in key North American and European markets. Sam Fagin become part of North America is Simon Bowles …
Read More »Libra Association hires Robert Werner as legal counsel – BlockTribune
[ad_2][ad_1] Libra Association hires Robert Werner as legal counsel Business appointments | May 20, 2020 br> By: David Pimentel The Libra Association has announced the appointment of Robert Werner as General Counsel. The Libra Association was founded by social media giant Facebook to oversee the Libra token, an authorized blockchain …
Read More »Blockchain Bites: Coinbase and BlockFi Make Big Hires, Tron Said Getting Relief From Coronavirus
[ad_2][ad_1] UPDATE (May 6, 17:50 UTC): This article has been updated to clarify that the claim about Tron receiving a loan in the event of a pandemic came from the project’s Chinese social media channels and to include a statement from a spokesperson for Tron in the United States Justin …
Read More »Blockchain hires a CFO as he is preparing to become public "in the coming years"
[ad_2][ad_1] / News / 2018/12 / blockchain-assumptions-a-CFO-as-his-reported-prepares-to-go-public-in-the-next-few years / Blockchain hires a CFO as he is preparing to become public "in the coming years" blockchain-assumptions-a-CFO-as-his-reported-prepares-to-go-public-in-the-next-few years The cryptocurrency portfolio provider Blockchain recently hired its first Chief Financial Officer (CFO), according to the LinkedIn profile of Macrina Kgil, which joined the …
Read More »Sec Hires, Exchange Rumors, and Bitcoin Price Woes: this week in Crypto
[ad_2][ad_1] Be sure to take a look at our previous edition here, now let's go over what happened in the crypt this week. Also, be sure to sign up for this week's The CCN Podcast on iTunes, TuneIn, Stitcher, Google Play Music, Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube or wherever you get your …
Read More »Ripple Hires Facebook Exec Kahina Van Dyke, New Names CTO
[ad_2][ad_1] The blockchain company Ripple announced the assumption on Wednesday of Kahina Van Dyke, a banking industry veteran who recently served as director of global payments for Facebook, as the new senior vice president for corporate and business development. The company also said that the chief cryptographer, David Schwartz, would …
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