The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Its initial coin offering is still in progress, but a new announcement indicates that the team behind KODAKCoin is working to put the forthcoming cryptocurrency to use.

Outspoken cryptocurrency proponent, iconoclastic firearm enthusiast, and potential 2020 US presidential candidate, John McAfee, challenged the SEC to a live debate on national television over the SEC chairman Jay Clayton's recent statements regarding the regulatory status of cryptocurrencies.

Lithuania has released comprehensive new "Guidelines" on Initial Coin Offerings in a document published June 8.

The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority has written to bank CEOs over the potential risks they face when dealing with cryptocurrencies.

A Los Angeles bitcoin trader faces more than two years in jail for having operated what prosecutors say is an illegal money transmitting business.

Switzerland voted against the so-called "Sovereign money" referendum Sunday, June 10 - a proposal for a financial system that multiple commentators have compared to cryptocurrency.

A common thought experiment in the crypto community is to ponder how cryptocurrencies would fare in the event of another global financial meltdown.

The Swiss city of Zug, known for its proactive support of the blockchain industry, is launching a voting pilot that will base both polling system and residents' IDs on blockchain technology.

Cryptocurrency users are venting frustration June 11 after mainstream media outlets reported the crypto market had fallen namely due to the hacking of a small South Korean exchange Coinrail.

The U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission has reportedly subpoenaed four cryptocurrency exchanges in a bid to obtain their trading data as part of an investigation into market manipulation.

Bitcoin's volatile past week captured the attention of market observers, with many in the crypto community surprised to see Sunday's market drop resulting in a sub-$7K BTC price.

The bitcoin market has come alive in the last 36 hours, with the bears gaining the upper hand and now aiming for fresh 2018 lows below $6,000.

Based in Tbilisi, Georgia, Spotcoin was founded in 2016 as an early cryptocurrency OTC marketplace as a key player in the developing blockchain industry of the Black Sea region.

Lithuania's Ministry of Finance has issued guidelines on initial coin offerings, outlining when cryptographic tokens would be viewed as securities and how each aspect of a token sale should be regulated by different laws in the country.

The former Chair of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said that she thinks the Federal Reserve needs to seriously consider issuing a central bank-issued digital currency in a June 8 op-ed published on Yahoo! Finance.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Wala is now facilitating roughly 6,300 daily dala transactions for more than 57,000 wallet accounts across Uganda, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Coinrail, a crypto exchange based out of South Korea, said on Sunday its platform was hacked with cryptocurrencies that appeared to worth $40 million at the time of the event.

DAOs, the formal and informal arrangements keeping organizations afloat are replaced by smart contracts.

The Federal Reserve should seriously consider its own crypto, the former head of the U.S. government's deposit insurance corporation wrote in an op-ed last week.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist, author of the classic 1952 article "Portfolio Selection," devised modern portfolio theory, which stresses that diversifying assets is crucial.

A county government website for Khabarovsk, Russia was recently hacked in order to mine cryptocurrency using the processing power of those visiting.

The price of bitcoin dropped $500 in a single hour Sunday to hit a two-month low below $6,700.

Bitcoin plummetted below $7,000 USD for the first time since April 2018.

Over the last six months, the amount of women considering an investment in cryptocurrencies has gone from 6% to 13%, reports City A.M. June 9.

Sunday, June 10: crypto markets have seen a sharp drop today, in the wake of the news that the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has launched a probe into four major crypto exchanges.

Whether it be the landlocked Liberland or the seaborne Floating Island Project, they've taken cryptocurrencies and blockchains as the basis for a new way of organising how people live, interact and work.

Major US crypto exchange and wallet Coinbase has begun the process to become an SEC-regulated broker dealer by acquiring securities dealer Keystone Capital Corp. in addition to Venovate Marketplace, Inc., and Digital Wealth LLC. If approved, these acquisitions will enable Coinbase to expand to other non-crypto financial products, as well as offer blockchain-based securities.

The Canadian government has released an official draft of new regulations on crypto exchanges and payment processors, Canada Gazette reports June 9.According to the draft, the new regulations seek to address a "Number of deficiencies" that the Financial Action Task Force outlined after their evaluation in 2015-16, namely in strengthening Canada's Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Regime.

The details include a list of seven approved cryptocurrencies, fees, and licensing requirements.

Like MelissaSweet1, several other sex workers recently interviewed by CoinDesk described similar shifts in their crypto usage.