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Vertcoin Network Suffers 300-Block Reorg Following 51% Attacks
Technology & Security Vertcoin (VTC) is currently struggling with a series of 51 percent attacks and a number of blockchain reorganizations. According ...
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As It Ramps Up Enforcement, the SEC Has Been Looking Abroad for Assistance
2018 has been a hallmark year for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s enforcement against cryptocurrency companies, and, according ...
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Numerai to Cut Token Supply by 10 Million to Become ‘Decentralized as F*ck’
Numerai never did a token sale, but people have its token and they are using it. The numeraire (NMR) was ...
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US Government Aims to Make Privacy Coins’ Use Case Obsolete
A branch of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DoHS) is researching the possibility of using blockchain forensic analysis ...
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Binance Users Can Book 450,000 Hotels Using BNB
On Tripio, a blockchain-based hotel booking platform, Binance Coin (BNB) users are now able to book 450,000 hotels and residential ...
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Top Cryptocurrencies See Slight Gains, Bitcoin Hovers Under $4,000
Tuesday, Nov. 4: Most of the top twenty cryptocurrencies are in the green, having overcome yesterday’s losses, with Bitcoin (BTC) ...
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Air Force Grad School Launches Blockchain Demo Site
The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), a graduate school run by the U.S. Air Force, has launched an educational ...
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South African Man Hands $60k Worth of Bitcoin to Thieves After Being Tortured
A cryptocurrency trader has been targeted by a criminal gang in South Africa. After being kidnapped and tortured, the victim ...
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Breakout Inbound? Bitcoin Price Sets $4,000 as Upside Target
The bitcoin price on Tuesday jumped as high as 6.1 percent against the US Dollar but failed to sustain a ...
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New York Financial Regulators Approve Blockchain Payments System
The Department of Financial Services of New York (NYDFS) has authorized a blockchain-based digital platform offered by a local bank, ...
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Bitcoin’s Tech Trends of 2018: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1)
Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year in which “buidl" became a ...
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Chinese Government-Backed Company to Launch Stablecoin by February
Finance Grandshores Technology Group is a public company affiliated with a 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) fund backed by the ...
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CEO of Crypto Firm Quoine Says Bitcoin Will “Surpass” All-Time High by End of 2019
Over the past year, the cryptocurrency industry has bore witness to many claims from “experts” who said that the price ...
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29% of Freelancers Wish to be Paid in Crypto: Are Legacy Systems Poor?
According to a survey conducted by Humans.net, a job recruitment platform, 29 percent of freelancers would rather get paid in ...
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Bitcoin Holds Steady Around $4,000, Cost of Mining Continues to Drop
Following yesterday’s market turbulence that sent the cryptocurrency markets down towards their 2018 lows, Bitcoin appears to have established the ...
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Binance to Launch Its Own Blockchain ‘Binance Chain’ in ‘Coming Months’
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volumes, will launch its own blockchain “Binance Chain” in the “coming months,” ...
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Crypto Exchange Poloniex Launches Institutional Trading Services
Crypto exchange Poloniex has announced the opening of trading services for institutional clients. The company, which was acquired by payments ...
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Waves Price Surges 50% While Broader Crypto Market Stagnates
Waves, a token platform with the web developer generation in mind, has seen its base token rise nearly 50 percent ...
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South Korea Is Trialing Blockchain Voting — Here’s What That Means
South Korea will test out a new blockchain voting system this month, sources close to the developments have confirmed to ...
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Crypto Startups Can Handle up to $100M Deposits
Economy & Regulation Crypto-asset companies can now apply for licenses to handle as much as 100 million Swiss francs ($100 ...
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Overstock’s Medici Invests $2.5 Million in Grain Tech Firm’s Blockchain Pivot
Overstock subsidiary Medici Ventures is investing in a software firm looking to store grain transactions on a blockchain. The company ...
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Binance to Launch Binancechain For ‘Millions of Coins,’ CEO Confirms
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by means of traded volumes will be launching its own public blockchain in “a couple ...
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Major Latin American Bank Conglomerate Itau to Create Blockchain Platform for Small Loans
Brazil’s largest private bank has partnered with United Kingdom bank Standard Chartered to create a blockchain-based platform for small loans, ...
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Bitfinex Gives Tether Competition, Adds Four of Market’s Top Stablecoins
Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market’s major stablecoins. Adding to its support ...
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Swiss Finance Minister Rejects Specific Blockchain Legislation in Favor of Current Laws
The Swiss Minister of Finance, Ueli Maurer, has rejected a possible blockchain law in a speech at blockchain conference Infrachain ...
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How Significant Is Blockchain in Internet of Things?
The spotlight was placed back on the Internet of Things (IoT) recently when Bosch, the multinational engineering and electronics company, ...
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Argo Blockchain Sees 146% Increase in Crypto Mining Package Sales
A shattered crypto market has not deterred miners from purchasing crypto mining software packages, revealed Argo Blockchain.The U.K.-based Mining-as-a-Service (MaaS) ...
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Chinese Crypto Investor to Develop Stablecoin Within Hong Kong-Based Blockchain Fund
Chinese crypto investor Li Xiaolai will lead a stablecoin project within Hong Kong-based blockchain fund Grandshores Technology, according to an ...
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Treasury Official: Global Regulators Must Follow US Lead in Crypto Enforcement
A senior U.S. official has called on the crypto industry and the wide global financial sphere to take steps to ...
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Russian Intellectual Property Court Trials Blockchain to Store Copyright Data
A Russian court dedicated to intellectual property cases has successfully tested a blockchain network for storing copyright data. The technology ...
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Atomicpay Launches Private Beta of Digital Currency Payment Gateway
News Startup Atomicpay.io announced the beta launch of its cryptocurrency payment gateway on Dec. 3, with support for six different digital assets. The payment ...
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Bitcoin Price Will Hit New All-Time Highs in 2019: Quoine CEO
Bitcoin price will likely reclaim or surpass its all-time high by the end of 2019, guesstimated Mike Kayamori. The Quoine chief ...
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Man Tortured For His Bitcoin: 4 Ways to Protect Your BTC Funds
A Bitcoin trader from South Africa has reportedly been drugged, kidnapped, and tortured over his Bitcoin holdings. The assault happened ...
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Hyperledger Launches Cryptography Toolbox for Blockchain Developers
Blockchain consortium Hyperledger has launched a new tool for developers – a modular, shared cryptographic library dubbed Ursa. The Linux ...
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Report: Whales Accumulate Ethereum (ETH) En-Masse Amid Bear Market
Since Bitcoin (BTC) began to falter in recent weeks, with the asset free-falling below $6,000, investors have whipped out their ...
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EOS, BCH among Worst Crypto Assets as Top Coins Correct Lower
EOS continues to face more rapid capitulation than its peer blockchain projects after falling another 11% in a day. The ...
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Scalable ‘Blockchain’ Network Seals $35 Million From Sequoia Capital, Huobi and Others
A new blockchain-type network led by a Turing Award recipient and other academics has sealed $35 million in funding from ...
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Former PM Calls Crypto a ‘Ponzi Scheme,’ But Underlines Importance of Blockchain
Ehud Barak, a former Israeli Prime Minister, has compared digital currencies to Ponzi schemes, Israeli media agency Arutz Sheva reported ...
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Celebs and ICOs: The Makings of a Dangerous Duo
Like many different industries, Hollywood’s involvement with cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) has become a reality and a number ...
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Coinbase’s Former Fraud Lead Has Left to Join Tech Firm Twilio
One of Coinbase’s earliest employees, risk operations manager Rees Atlas, has left the Silicon Valley cryptocurrency exchange – and the ...
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Signature Bank Wins New York Approval for ‘Real-Time’ Blockchain Payments
New York-based Signature Bank is launching a digital payments platform built on a blockchain architecture to streamline real-time payments. Announced ...
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Nasdaq & Fidelity Invest in Wall Street Crypto Exchange ErisX
Financial industry giants Nasdaq and Fidelity continue to wade deeper into the nascent cryptocurrency ecosystem, most recently through investments in ...
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