The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

On June 10, the South Korean government integrated blockchain into the public sector.

One of the most popular websites for cryptocurrency price data announced a series of changes on Wednesday.

BTC/USDSelling in Bitcoin is gathering momentum, as it continues to slump towards its critical support at $6,075.

Adblock Plus developer eyeo GmbH will use blockchain technology in its browser extension Trusted News, TechCrunch reports June, 13.Trusted News has been launched in beta and so far is only available for Chrome.

The first half of June has seen a series of high profile attacks rock the cryptocurrency ecosystem, with the recent South Korean exchange Coinrail hacked to the tune of around $40 million and ZenCash targeted by a successful 51% attack.

The first EOS Hackathon held in Hong Kong has concluded and the results are in.

Signs are beginning to emerge that bitcoin's sell-off today may be overextended.

A new cryptocurrency trading platform launched by former Telegram director of special projects Anton Rosenberg seeks to help blockchain startups stabilize their token prices.

The historic summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un got the crypto community's attention - and held it - thanks to Dennis Rodman and the notorious cryptocurrency that funded his travel to Singapore, potcoin.

A June 11 report by network and enterprise security company Palo Alto Networks has found that around 5 percent of all Monero in circulation was mined maliciously.

Coinbase has formally launched a new index fund product aimed at large investors.

The press release notes that TRMI 3.1 will use visualization tools and quantitative research results to support traders distinguish significant themes.

Blockchain startup Swarm announced Wednesday that it was launching new "Equity tokens" that would represent equity in notable blockchain startups like Coinbase and Ripple - but those companies have pushed back swiftly against the idea.

About $20 mln worth of Ethereum have reportedly been stolen by a group of hackers, exploiting misconfigured Ethereum clients, according to a Bleeping Computer article published June 11.The hackers were able access applications using the Ethereum software which configured their interface to expose a Remote Procedure Call.

A pair of bills submitted to Michigan's state legislature would make it a crime to illegally alter a blockchain record.

Litecoin may have hit fresh 2018 lows Wednesday, but could be in for corrective rally courtesy of oversold conditions.

Google searches for Bitcoin have reportedly declined 75 percent through 2018, yet the leading cryptocurrency is still outstripping the famous pop-star Beyonce on Google Trends, CNBC reported Tuesday, June 12th.Bitcoin analyst Brian Kelly told CNBC's 'Futures Now' that only during her Coachella music festival performance this April did the megastar briefly eclipse Bitcoin in terms of internet search popularity this year.

The U.S. dollar-pegged tether has been used to support bitcoin's price during market downturns, a new study published by University of Texas at Austin professors.

A "Value discovery" platform for blockchain and cryptocurrencies, aided by a unique AI algorithm, plans to help investors make the best choices available to them in real-time, whilst avoiding dangerous mistakes.

Tether has once again become the source of criticism after a new study blamed it for Bitcoin price manipulation in 2017, The New York Times reports Wednesday, June 13.A paper released June 13 by John M. Griffin and Amin Shams of the University of Texas suggests that transaction patterns show Tether was "Used to provide price support and manipulate cryptocurrency prices."

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has released plans to issue asset-backed securities on the blockchain, local media reported June 13.According to China's Securities Regulatory Commission via its media outlet Securities Times, subsidiary JD Finance will issue the ABS in conjunction with Huatai Securities and Xingye Bank.Together, the partners will asses blockchain's potential to shore up asset security, according to JD Finance head Hao Yanshan.

The global financial services industry spent a combined $1.7 billion on blockchain development in 2017, with institutions having increased their individual budgets for the technology by 67 percent in the same year.

Bitcoin has taken an over 11 percent negative hit, trading around $6,449 to press time, bringing its monthly losses to almost 25 percent.

New reports emerge daily about blockchain's infinite potential to upend entire industries.

On Sunday, the Tezos Foundation announced that it would be carrying out know-your-customer and anti-money laundering checks on investors who bought into its July 2017 initial coin offering.

Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder & CEO of payments company Circle spoke this morning of an unprecedented "Crypto-revolution," saying that global society is "At the beginning of a tokenization of everything."

Felix Hufeld, chief of Germany's financial watchdog, has said blockchain technology is "Revolutionary" and its applications could turn the entire financial sector "Upside down."

The highly anticipated launch of the EOS mainnet has resulted in a chaotic stall, with less than 7% EOS tokens staked and used to vote.

Bitcoin is still looking south, having hit four-month lows today, but the bearish momentum may wane due to short-term oversold conditions, the technical charts indicate.

The global cryptocurrency market continues to endure a bearish downtrend.