If the lawsuit is decided in favor of Ripple, for example, this is anticipated to be seen as a bullish sentiment for those looking to buy XRP. As a reminder, the US regulator sued the blockchain company for allegedly illegally selling over $1.3 billion worth of XRP tokens. According to the SEC, the tokens were securities during the sale between 2013 and December 2020. Both sides have now handed in their closing arguments, which raises the possibility that a resolution may be reached in the near future....

Indeed, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is not considering the CBDC implementation in the near future due to the popularity of credit cards, internet banking services, and e-money payment tools among the consumers in the country, Asia Times’ Sayuri Shirai reported on July 20. Preferable payment methods As it happens, the private sector also encourages the widespread use of digital and mobile technologies for making payments. In addition, most Japanese citizens reportedly have unimpeded access to the banking system, and the need hasn’t arisen to promote financial inclusion for any marginalized group....

OMG Network was formerly known as OmiseGo. The OMG Network is designed as a scaling solution for finance on Ethereum. It supports transparent, peer-to-peer transactions in real-time. The decentralized network enhances and supports self-sovereign financial services across asset classes, geographies, and applications. Its token, OMG, has joined 25 other cryptos that are currently approved in the Asian country. Therefore, it means that crypto-asset can now get listed on all the compliant exchanges operating within Japan....

Through his website dubbed Art is Crime, Borisov detailed how the government had frozen his bank accounts without communicating with him regarding the case. In the case timeline, the developer who earned the amount from 3,557 NFT releases noted that the case proceedings were launched in February this year, but he was only notified about the matter on May 9. Lack of crypto regulation Due to a lack of clear crypto tax regulations, the developer stated that he contacted the Latvian State Revenue Service (VID) on how to legalize his income in cryptocurrency....

Bitcoin has reached another milestone high when prices climbed to $60,900 on March 13, according to Tradingview.com. The asset remained over the $60k price zone for most of the weekend but has begun to correct during Monday morning trading in Asia. At the time of writing, BTC was trading at just below $58,000, a gain of over 15% since the same time last week. If the correction deepens, support lies at the $57,500 level, which is still higher than it has been for most of the year....

Indeed, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP reminded all investors who purchased the shares of Lucid and incurred losses to contact them in an announcement made on May 6, reports PRNewswire. The law firm seeks that the Court designates each investor as a lead plaintiff of the proposed class action against Lucid and Wolf Haldenstein states investors must file their motion no later than May 31, 2022. The details behind the Lucid lawsuit Lucid announced its plans to merge with Churchill Capital Corp....

What is occurring behind the scenes is that NCSI is performing an HTTP request for http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt or a DNS look-up for dns.msftncsi.com that resolves to 131.107.255.255. You can disable this behavior either by modifying the registry of the local machine or if you want to disable it across multiple domain joined systems, you can do so by creating a group policy object (GPO). Registry (Windows Vista & Later) 1a – Group Policy (Vista): 1b – Group Policy (Windows 7/2008 R2) 2 – Group Policy (Windows 7/2008 R2) This setting specifies whether or not the “local access only” network icon will be shown....

Netflix (NFLX) stock remained range-bound because of overhead resistance.The stock will rally above the overhead resistance if a breakout occurs at 380.Resistance Level: $360, $380, $400, $420.Support Level: $300, $280, $260, $240. On January 28, Netflix posted its last quarter performance on earnings, despite the growing competition. Netflix recorded revenue growth of 30.5%. As the revenue reached a high of $5.47 billion, the share earnings were $1.30 per share. In the same vein, Netflix stock is valued at 100 times P/E (price-earnings)....

According to data acquired by Finbold, 614 operators have installed 39,008 crypto ATMs across 77 countries, as per Coin ATM Radar data retrieved on August 8, 2022. Q3 2022 shows a more positive trend despite the slowdown between Q1 2022 and Q2 2022, when the number of new crypto ATM installations dropped by 32.26%, from 2,362 to 1,600 machines. Notably, this upward trend started in January 2017, when the figures were advancing towards 1,000 machines....

According to data acquired by Finbold, a total of 686 Bitcoin ATMs were installed around the world in March 2022 as the number rose from 36,023 on March 1 to 36,709 by April 1. This indicates that 22 Bitcoin ATMs were added daily in March alone, as the number of Bitcoin machines installed over time continues to grow. The total number of crypto ATMs around the world stands at 36,733 as of April 11, per statistics provided by Coin ATM Radar....

In particular, 92% of professional investors believe the current values of popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are attractive and highlight a positive outlook for the sector, a new research by Nickel Digital Asset Management shared with Finbold on November 9 indicates. The research based on feedback from 200 professional investors managing $2.2 trillion in assets across seven countries found that, on the whole, the investors believe that purchasing cryptocurrencies amid the current conditions will likely have better returns in five years....

Porsche attained the status on October 6, with a valuation of €85 billion ($83.5 billion) after the share price rose to €93 ($91.40), while Volkswagen was valued at €77billion, Reuters reported the same day. Notably, Porsche had previously recorded a sharp drop in its shares early in the week but rallied after investment banks that participated in its flotation acquired almost 3.8 million shares valued at €312.8 million. The acquisition was part of the greenshoe option....

In particular, according to data acquired and calculated by Finbold, as of January 2, 2023, the number of Bitcoin millionaire addresses stood at 28,007, representing a drop of about 71.73% or 71,085 addresses from January 2, 2022. At the start of last year, the number of millionaire addresses stood at 99,092. Elsewhere, in January 2022, the number of addresses holding $1 million worth of Bitcoin stood at 90,902 to record, a year-over-year (YoY) drop of 73....

The shares of the semiconductor company also got support due to the announcement of a lucrative patent dispute settlement with Huawei– which the majority of analysts believe would contribute significantly to revenue and earnings per share. Qualcomm announced a settlement with Huawei this month and it also reached a new long-term global patent license agreement. The company says Q4 outlook assumes royalties due on Huawei sales as well as $1....

The OLE DB providers make the non-relational data appear relational. This means that SQL Server can query the contents of an Active Directory domain, which is structured like a tree, and not a flat table. Data retrieved from Active Directory can be made into a view or even joined with existing SQL Server data. There are three components to querying your Active Directory: Create a linked server definition which is defined in SQL....

Indeed, crypto investors’ gains globally and across cryptocurrencies increased by more than 400% in just one year, according to the report published by on-chain analytics platform Chainalysis on April 20. Overall, across all cryptocurrencies that the platform observed, investors around the world reached gains totaling $162.7 billion in 2021, which is an increase of precisely 400.61% from $32.5 billion in 2020. Which countries had the largest gains? In terms of specific countries, the United States was the largest gainer, accounting for $46....

According to the company’s annual report for last year, administrative expenses more than doubled in 2020 from £125 million ($174 million) to £266 million ($370 million), mainly driven by staff costs alongside risks and compliance spending. Elsewhere, the company, which is in the process of increasing its cryptocurrency offering, recorded an adjusted revenue of £261 million ($363 million), an increase of 57%. Notably, the revenue entails about £39 million ($54 million) gain in digital currencies....

In this line, crypto attorney Jeremey Hogan has pointed out what he terms as confusion regarding the handover of former SEC Division Director William Hinman’s emails, he said in a series of tweets on October 14. According to the legal expert, following the decision by the presiding Judge to overrule SEC’s objections to turning over the emails, she did not clarify when they must be handed over. The email in contention concerns a speech Hinman delivered in 2018, where he said Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are not securities....

According to data acquired by Finbold, as of June 2021, the top ten grossing iPhone games in the U.S. generate an estimated average of $11.2 million in daily revenue, equivalent to $336.2 million every month. Online game and game creation platform Roblox (NYSE: RBLX) tops the chart with estimated revenue of $3.01 million daily or $92 million monthly. Clash of Clans ranks a distant second with an estimated average of $1....

Data analyzed by Finbold indicates that only three countries produced 79.62% of all the estimated 54 million carats of natural diamond produced in 2020 globally. Russia tops with a share of 35.18% or 19 million carats, followed by Australia with 22.22% or 12 million carats. Therefore, the two countries cumulatively accounted for more than half (57%) of the mined diamonds in 2020. The Democratic Republic of Congo also produced 12 million carats of diamond....