Cryptocurrencies markets continue to suffer major losses following the depegging of Terra ecosystem’s stablecoin TerraUSD (UST), causing discrepancies between stablecoin pegs and the value of Bitcoin ...
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Tether CTO Says, USDT-Dollar Remains Strong Amid Stablecoin Crises
The LUNA/UST affair has caused discrepancies in the BTC-stablecoin trading pairs on different global cryptocurrency exchanges. Cryptocurrencies are still feeling the effects of the TerraUSD disaster, ...
CTO of tech used in Bitcoin-Qt wallet thinks crypto is a “Ponzi scheme”
The CTO of the popular programming framework Qt — which tech giants like Adobe use, Tesla, Blackberry, Google, and Blizzard — called cryptocurrency a “Ponzi scheme” on May 6. However, the company has ...
CTO Paolo Ardoino (Exclusive Interview)
The leading stablecoin by market capitalization — backed by reserves of cash and money market cash equivalents — USDT has a market cap of approximately $83 billion at the time of this writing. Paolo A...
We are ready for a bank run says Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino
Tether is ready for whatever the economic climate throws at it, Chief Technical Officer Paolo Ardoino told CryptoSlate at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit. In this exclusive interview, Ardoino explai...
SafeMoon Stays In Controversy: Former CTO Puts His Side Forward About Fraud Allegations
CoffeeZilla has further takes a dig against the crypto project SafeMoon exposing all that he found is suspicious. This time, the former CTO approached the Youtuber following his allegations of the th...
Former SafeMoon CTO ‘Papa’ responds to fraud allegations
YouTuber Coffeezilla, AKA Stephen Findeisen, has been exposing SafeMoon in a series of videos that allege fraudulent practices at the organization. Primarily, this relates to the theft of user funds f...
Bitfinex CTO reveals key information on El Salvador’s up and coming Volcano Tokens
Europe’s biggest conference, the Paris Blockchain Week Summit (PBWS), ran for two days last week from April 13. It featured over 3,000 attendees and 250 speakers, including some of the most prominent ...
Ripple CTO Lashes Out at Elon Musk, Following His Free Speech Vantage Point
Ripple’s David Schwartz highlighted his opposition towards Elon Musk’s taking over Twitter as he is not in its support. Many influential names like Jack Dorsey and Jackson Palmer als...
Ripple CTO Rips into Elon Musk on Twitter over ‘Real Intentions’ behind Takeover Bid
Ripple CTO David Schwartz launched an attack, stating what he believes Elon Musk truly wants buy offering to buy Twitter. Ripple CTO David Schwartz has criticized Elon Musk, suggesting “true intention...
Musk Is ‘Not Trying to Make Twitter a Better Place’ According to Ripple CTO
As Elon Musk continues to hint at a tender offer to takeover Twitter, Ripple’s chief technology officer, David Schwartz, has slammed the billionaire for his not so pure intentions. Schwartz took to Tw...
Why Ripple CTO Criticized Elon Musk’s Free Speech Stance
David Schwartz, CTO at payment solution company Ripple, weighted in on Elon Musk’s attempts to buy Twitter. The CEO at Tesla made a bid to take over the social media platform valued at over $40 billio...
Ripple CTO Slams Elon Musk, Exposing Allegedly Real Reason for Twitter Takeover
Yuri Molchan Ripple’s David Schwartz has exposed what he believes to be real reason for Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter, and it’s not about free speech, he says Ripple’s chi...
Tether CTO Talks About Crypto Legal Tender In Lugano, Says CBDCs And Stablecoins Can Co-exist Together
The Chief Technology Officer at Tether and Bitfinex, Paolo Ardoino said that the company’s position as the most used stablecoin is not threatened by the rise in competition in the stablecoin market, a...
Will boost transparency and reduce commercial paper holdings: Tether’s CTO
Tether’s chief technical officer stated that the company would continue to reduce its commercial debt holdings while also increasing transparency around the reserves that back its USDT stablecoin. Why...
Tether CTO discusses threats to USDT; from rising competition to CBDCs
In a recent interview with Paolo Ardoino, the Chief Technology Officer of Tether and Bitfinex, Paolo revealed amongst other plans, that the company is confident that it will maintain its position as t...
Tether is gaining momentum against competing stablecoins, says Tether CTO
Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer of Tether and Bitfinex, is confident that Tether will preserve its status as the most used stablecoin, despite the rapid growth of competitors such as USD C...
Stablecoins are the perfect Trojan horse for Bitcoin, says Tether CTO
As one of a number of Cointelegraph representatives attending the Paris Blockchain Week Summit (PBWS) at the historic Palais Brongniart — a neoclassical building that had been the headquarters for the...
Tether’s CTO Says It Will Reduce Commercial Paper Holdings
Key Takeaways Tether’s CTO Paolo Ardoino told CNBC that the stablecoin issuer would continue to reduce its commercial debt holdings. He also said that Tether would improve the transparency of it...
Binance Hires Senior Microsoft Exec as CTO
In brief Binance hired Rohit Wad, a 30 year veteran of Silicon Valley firms like Microsoft and Google The move comes as Binance pushes to win the trust of regulators and mainstream finance Binance ann...
Chainlink Labs Announces “An Ideal Addition”: Hires Diem CTO Dahlia Malkhi in Web3 Push
Chainlink Labs announced “an ideal addition” in the form of Dahlia Malkhi, a former Diem executive who will assist in growing its data oracle network. Sergey Nazarov CEO of Chainlink Labs in a press s...
Chainlink Labs Appoints Diem CTO Dahlia Malkhi as CRO
Chainlink Labs, a US-based operator of an online contract management platform, announced Tuesday the appointment of Dr. Dahlia Malkhi, former Diem Association Chief Technology Officer, as its Chief Re...
Existing Financial Systems are Rigged, Says Fringe Finance CTO Brian Pasfield
The traditional finance world, or TradFi as we know it, lacks inclusivity. According to the data published and endorsed by the World Bank, only 69% of the world’s adult population has an account. Alth...
Bitstamp Selected James Greenwood as Its CTO and Filled Other Posts
Bitstamp has selected James Greenwood as its new Chief Technology Officer as well as promoted other senior hires. Shared in a press release with Finance Magnates, James Greenwood, with a background as...
CBDCs Will Not Change the Role of Stablecoins, Says Tether CTO
With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) data showing about 110 countries around the world are currently developing their own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), the subject has garnered a lot of ...
CBDCs will not impact private stablecoin market, says Tether CTO
Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer at Tether, believes that the growing developments around central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) globally wouldn’t really impact the role of private stablec...
Why this top CTO ditched Uber, Facebook for NFTs on Solana
Silicon Valley and big tech firms are increasingly losing talents and high-profile individuals to the greener pastures of the crypto industry. Green as in the freshness and the horizon of opportunitie...
Commentary: Bitfinex CTO Suggests Ways To Protect One’s Account From Scams Following OpenSea Attack
OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace in the world, faced a phishing attack a few days ago. In the attack, Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were stolen from the users of OpenSea. Earlier, it was rumored that...
Panther Protocol CTO Anish Mohammed Explains How to Infuse DeFi With Privacy – Interview Bitcoin News
Panther is an end-to-end privacy protocol for DeFi. Panther provides DeFi users with fully collateralized privacy-enhancing digital assets, leveraging crypto-economic incentives and zkSNARK technology...
Rapid Addition Appoints Deepak Dhayatker as CTO
Rapid Addition, a provider of software solutions to electronic trading platforms, today announced that it has hired Deepak Dhayatker as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Rapid Addition considers...
Commentary: Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino Embraces Goldman Sachs’ Decision Regarding OTC Options
Goldman Sachs executed the initial Bitcoin over the counter trade, tagging further institutional adoption of crypto assets. BTC is considered as an inflation hedge. The non deliverable option, offered...