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Not «Where do I get the latest token?»

But during the digital coin sale, scammers pretending to be the founders of Bee Token inserted themselves into the money flow, by sending an email to people prompting them to invest in that ICO.

Earlier this week Fortune had the scoop on Circle, a Goldman Sachs - backed fintech startup, buying the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, where many of these projects» digital tokens trade.

Intriguing parallels exist between the movement of money in the Giza case and a separate scam perpetrated against a digital coin called Bee Token.

«Tokenaires» (people who got rich off token sales) hired private bankers, these bankers had other clients, and it cascaded outwards from there.

These «initial coin offerings» are essentially crowdfunding campaigns for anything bitcoin - related: You decide to start a company and sell digital «tokens» in your company to anyone online.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into the space, examining whether tokens can be unregulated sales of securities, and in late August warned about pump - and - dump scams disguising themselves as ICOs.

Playboy's plan and the launch of the Vice token, though, could encourage a wider acceptance of the digital currency.

Instead the enterprise service provider only receives a «token» consisting of a random numeric string that assures the user is who they say they are.

Apple uses NFC to send a «token» with encrypted details about the transaction, rather than the actual account information of the cardholder.

Subscribers to Playboy.TV will be able to use the Vice token to view Playboy.Tv's videos and other content.

«At the moment the ICO space is a mixture of high risk exploration hybridised with a kickstarter feel — the traditional finance world knows what a blockchain token is and will use it as a form of digital bearer certificate to allow transferal of gold or digital cash,» he wrote.

Could newspapers have survived by having only a token website and focusing most of their resources on their print product?

Larsen's wealth swelled to extravagant proportions when the price of Ripple's XRP token hit an unprecedented high of $ 3.84 per coin Thursday, per data from the industry tracker CoinMarketCap.

One of the wallets linked to the Bee Token phishing scam sent ethereum to a wallet associated with Giza, according to etherescan.io, a site that tracks all transactions on the ethereum blockchain as shown in the diagram below.

The weakness, by the same token, is in computer science, where women earn only 18 percent of undergraduate degrees.

In a lot of crypto - type investments, you are buying tokens — therefore, you do not own any equity in the company.

And worries «that the prices of Bitcoin and other digital tokens have been artificially propped up by a widely used exchange called Bitfinex, which has a checkered history of hacks and opaque business practices,» the New York Times reported.

And even if Larsen could easily convert the vast majority of his XRP coins into a traditional currency, like U.S. dollars, the influx of so many tokens into the market provoked by such a sell - off would no doubt greatly depress the value.

While news headlines and conversations might be dominated by cryptocurrencies, he said, it's actually the blockchain technology that these digital tokens are traded on that will endure into the future.

Unlike the stable token Tether, which has a steady value that's tied to the US dollar, the value of Basis is controlled algorithmically, on the blockchain.

Ripple wants to use its bitcoin - like XRP digital token to revolutionize the cross border money transfer industry, erasing scenes like this one where migrant workers from India change money at a stall in Malaysia.

The ban complicates the Maduro government's efforts to boost its foreign reserves through a digital token.

When you become a premium member of LinkedIn (it's $ 30 a month), you get a set of five tokens called «In - mail» that allow you to send an email to as many as five people that aren't immediately in your network.

In ICOs, a company sells digital tokens that can be eventually redeemed for goods and services.

The startup, which bills itself as the first token - based social network, allows users to earn cryptocurrency by completing small tasks online, such as answering emails.

By the same token, just because a resume or a job application has a few gaps in it doesn't mean you should overlook it entirely.

That can make diverse entrepreneurs feel like they're tokens or valued for something other than their business acumen.

Under this new policy, the advertisement of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and token sales will be prohibited globally,» a Twitter spokesperson said.

Last Thursday, BitGrail founder Francesco Firano claims to have discovered that 17 million Nano tokens, then worth roughly $ 195 million, had been stolen by hackers.

Namely, the social media company plans to prohibit initial coin offerings and token sales, and it plans to only show ads of exchanges or wallets provided by companies listed on major stock exchanges.

Because of this heightened risk environment, cryptocurrency experts strongly discourage leaving tokens in the custodianship of exchanges, and instead using a local wallet.

Its token, which the company says will initially be pegged to the value of one U.S. dollar, strives to become a legitimate medium of exchange, a true crypto - currency as opposed to a crypto - commodity, like Bitcoin.

It had begun the year at only about $ 1,000 per token.

Now, credit cards feature security chips and tokens that safeguard credit card numbers.

If potential love matches slip through the cracks of Craigslist's Missed Connections pages — where users frequently attempt to reconnect after miscarried chance encounters — perhaps this conciliatory token is the next best thing.

For instance, ConnectJob, «poised to be the Uber of the blockchain economy,» is issuing a token offering that will help them raise millions of dollars (USD) of capital.

Jibrel, another blockchain startup, is holding a token sale with hopes to give investors a stable, predictable investing platform.

By the same token, it's easy to hate on the top dog — and let's face it, that's what Apple is in consumer tech (it has near - monopoly status with iPods, iTunes and iPads; has the top - selling smartphone by far despite Android's collective market share leadership; and is on the verge of finally conquering Microsoft in computers).

(By the same token, it also raises opportunities for short sellers to create confusion.)

In other words, investors in the ICO will hold tokens in a network that's yet to be developed.

• Token, a San Francisco - based secure payments provider, has raised $ 15.7 million in Series A, according to Tech.eu.

TraDove, a company offering a token that utilizes this exact functionality, is building an enterprise blockchain platform.

After serving as the communication platform for token sales and ICOs, Telegram is now gearing up to take full advantage of its popularity in the crypto world.

As Ethereum lets developers create their own cryptocurrency, Kassim explains how the platform plans to take real estate assets and «tokenise» each asset, giving everyone the opportunity to buy and sell those «tokens», without the overhead of a bigger entity to handle the process.

They are issuing compliant tokens, backed by the valuation of real world assets, to further collateralize their digital coins.

By the same token, the onus is also on Lunar not to make impossible promises to its employees.

Arrington told Fortune that the fund would invest primarily in digital assets, including exotic ones, and in so - called «initial coin offerings,» which involve the sale of digital tokens that can in some cases provide access to an online service such as file sharing.

There's a lock - up for the ICO, meaning investors won't receive their TON tokens, or Grams, until December 2018, at the earliest.

and a host of other startups, told Business Insider he took part in Kik's $ 50 million (# 39 million) token presale, where investors were given a chance to buy the messaging app's new digital currency «Kin» before the general public.