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ICO Fundraising Decline Continues as Funding Hits 17-Month Low
Cryptocurrency Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) failed to surpass the $300 million fundraising mark for September 2018. ICO fundraising is now ...
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2017 to Today: Ethereum Predictions Are Aging (But Not Well)
Alex Sunnarborg is a founding member of Tetras Capital Partners, LLC, an investment manager focused on investing in crypto assets ...
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Crypto Assets Pose No Risks to Financial Stability, International Bankers Claim
International central banks and financial officials think that cryptocurrencies pose no significant risks to global economic stability, according to a ...
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Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain Solution for Bitcoin Network Goes Live
The Liquid Network sidechain for the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain went live on Sept. 27, according to an Oct. 10 post ...
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Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis: BTC/USD Extends Consolidation Action
The Bitcoin’s sideways action is gaining strength in what has so far been a quiet month. However, the digital currency, ...
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SEC Files Subpoena Enforcement Against Alleged ‘Pump-and-Dump’ ICO Scheme
The U.S. securities agency has filed a subpoena enforcement action against the perpetrators of an alleged “pump-and-dump” scheme involving claims ...
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Wall Street Trader-Turned-Artist Erects Bitcoin Rat Exhibit Across from Fed
A former Wall Street hedge fund manager-turned-artist has erected a massive inflatable Bitcoin rat art exhibit across from the U.S ...
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Blockstream’s Liquid Network for “High Value” Bitcoin Payments Is Live
The Liquid Network is up and running.More than a year after its conceptual introduction at the Blockchain Association of Canada's ...
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New Venture Capital Fund Secures $100M to Invest in Crypto Startups
Finance Dragonfly Capital Partners, a new crypto-focused venture capital firm, has announced the launch of its first $100 million fund ...
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Emergence of $100M Funds in Crypto Bear Market Show Investor Demand
Over the past month, four major $100 million crypto hedge funds have debuted with strong backing from institutional investors, Wall ...
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Sneaky Hacker Gets Some Serious Booty From Spankchain
Lax security measures have caused the adult entertainment platform SpankChain to lose $38,000 in ETH. A Pirate Made Off With ...
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Market Analyst: Bitcoin Needs SEC Blessing to Continue Rally
As Bitcoin’s price continues to trade sideways amidst a bout of low trading volume, investors are becoming increasingly keen to ...
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BMW-Backed Blockchain Competition Offers Token Prizes for Auto Tech
The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI) has launched a development "tournament" to explore how vehicles will communicate, co-operate and transact ...
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Cryptocurrency isn’t Real Money: Tongue-in-Cheek Google Ad
Google has finally betrayed its true feelings on cryptocurrency. Well, maybe not, but a tongue-in-cheek advertisement for the search giant ...
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Former NASDAQ Subsidiary Exec Joins Crypto Exchange Gemini’s Client Service Team
Former COO of major U.S. stock exchange NASDAQ subsidiary Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto has joined crypto exchange Gemini, the company revealed in ...
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Deep Web Roundup: 20 Years for ‘Oxymonster,’ New Darknet Monitoring Tool
News Two stories stand out in our latest trawl of the deep web for news that filters through to the ...
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New Google Ad Jokes About the Sky-High Cost of Mining Cryptocurrencies
In a recent ad about its Call Screen service, Google has revealed its feelings about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, jibing ...
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Liquid Goes Live: Blockstream’s First Bitcoin Sidechain Has Finally Arrived
Three years in the making, bitcoin's first sidechain "Liquid" is now live. Launched by San Francisco startup Blockstream, Liquid is ...
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Unlocking the Full Potential of IoT Farming – [BTC Media Sponsor]
You don’t need to be an agriculture expert to see the writing on the wall. Current farming methods just aren’t ...
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How Adoption Could Help With UK–EU Relations
Blockchain has one new supporter: the UK finance minister Philip Hammond. Quizzed at the Conservative Party conference on how the ...
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Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX Clashes with Bank over $22 Million in Frozen Funds
QuadrigaCX, Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has been denied access to CA$28 million of its funds domiciled in the Canadian Imperial ...
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China Should Consider Launching its Own Stablecoin, Central Bank Expert Says in Op-Ed
The Chinese government should consider launching its own yuan-backed stablecoin despite the current ban on cryptocurrencies, an op-ed in Chinese ...
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Crypto Assets Don’t Pose Threat to Financial Stability Today, Says FSB
Cryptocurrencies and digital assets are not currently a threat to global financial stability, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) states in ...
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New Google Joke Advertisement Questions the Validity of Cryptocurrency as Money
Google entered the cryptocurrency-as-money debate on Tuesday, Oct. 9, arguing over its validity during an introductory video for a new ...
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Today Moon? Economist’s 1988 Prediction Day Arrives (While Bitcoin Sleeps)
October 10, 2018, has arrived — the date by which The Economist says we should be “ready for a new ...
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Crypto Hedge Fund Launches Are Soaring to Record Levels This Year
Despite the bear market in cryptocurrencies this year so far, crypto hedge fund launches are spiking to all-time highs. According ...
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India Making Plans to Launch Its Own Government Backed Cryptocurrency
Despite its best efforts to keep crypto out of India, it appears that the Indian government is still not willing ...
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Crypto Exchange Hack Losses Already 250% Higher Than 2017, Q3 Report Shows
Losses caused by cryptocurrency exchange hacks hit $927 million in the first nine months of 2018, already 250 percent higher ...
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We Haven’t Seen the Last of the Bug That Killed the DAO
More than two years after the collapse of The DAO thrust the Ethereum community into civil war, one of the ...
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Japanese Technology Conglomerate GMO to Unveil Yen-Pegged Crypto Stablecoin
Japanese internet giant GMO Internet has announced that it will launch a stablecoin pegged to the yen next year. According ...
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Quadrigacx Battles Bank Over $21.6m in Frozen Funds
Exchanges Cryptocurrency exchange Quadrigacx has blamed an ongoing legal dispute over $21.6 million worth of funds that were frozen by ...
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SEC Asks Court to Enforce Subpoena in ICO Inquiry
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that it has asked a U.S. district court to enforce a subpoena as ...
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Japan’s GMO Internet Group Announces Yen-Backed Stablecoin
Japanese internet giant GMO has just announced plans to launch a new stablecoin backed by the Yen. The new coin ...
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Hacked Japanese Crypto Exchange Zaif Releases Financial Support Plan for Customer Assets
Hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif has announced an official plan to provide financial support for affected customers’ assets, in an ...
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In Switzerland, Crypto Finance AG Obtains First Ever Cryptocurrency Asset Management License
In what is a first for Switzerland, Crypto Fund, a subsidiary of Crypto Finance AG, recently obtained a cryptocurrency asset ...
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Japan’s Crackdown on Cryptocurrency ‘Good for Us’
Cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase isn’t concerned that Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has begun to view the crypto trading industry ...
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Industry Leader: Bitcoin and Crypto Have Bright Futures
In light of a slowing crypto market, with volumes, volatility, and retail interest seemingly disappearing altogether, industry leaders have begun ...
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A Solution to Crypto’s 51% Attack? Fine Miners Before It Happens
One of crypto's most feared attacks may have an elegant solution. At least, that's according to the team behind cryptocurrency ...
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Gemini Taps Wall Street Exec to Attract Institutional Crypto Investors
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has hired another Wall street executive as part of its bid to attract more institutional clients. Announced ...
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Glen Oaks Escrow Supports Crypto, Binance to Delist Four Altcoins
Exchanges In recent news pertaining to cryptocurrency exchanges, Glen Oaks Escrow has announced that it has partnered with Bitpay to ...
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Singapore: Local Regulator to Aid Blockchain Startups, Multi-Fiat-Crypto Exchange Launched
Although the United States has been seen as a founding father of modern technologies, other nations like Singapore, Malta, Switzerland ...
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Bitcoin Price is Stuck Below Key Hurdle For Fourth Week
Bitcoin is having a tough time scaling a key moving average hurdle that has kept the bulls in check for ...
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