The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

CryptoKitties just helped raise $15,000 for a children's hospital.

The broader markets seem to have been dragged lower by a 9.5 percent week-on-week drop in bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market cap.

A publicity stunt for the upcoming Initial Coin Offering of Ukrainian social network ASKfm led to the death of one person last week, the Financial Times' Alphaville reports Friday, May 25.

Research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group has reported that about $1.2 bln in cryptocurrencies have been stolen since the start of 2017, Reuters reported Thursday, May 24.

A newly established blockchain industrial park in the Chinese city of Hangzhou is hoping to attract talented individuals and startups by offering millions of dollars-worth of subsidies.

We then set our sights on Munich, where BlockShow 2017 was held.

CryptoKitties developer Axiom Zen said a lawsuit over its celebrity products involving basketball player Steph Curry "Falsely accuses" it of theft, VentureBeat reports May 25.

US transport giant Norfolk Southern Corp. revealed it is joining the Blockchain in Transport Alliance in a company announcement yesterday, May 24.

Porn star Stormy Daniels is adding cryptocurrency to her official website to encourage users to consume content.

Thailand's largest bank has joined a trade finance program utilizing R3's Corda distributed ledger technology, sources reported May 24.

May 25: although crypto market prices are still down after the week's losses, the maps are showing green today, according to data from Coin360.

Bangkok Bank has joined the Marco Polo trade finance initiative developed by blockchain software startup R3 and trade finance technology firm TradeIX. The Marco Polo platform is aimed to make trade finance simpler and more risk-free using blockchain technology instead of manual, paper-based processes, and already boasts major financial institutions including BNP, Commerzbank and ING as participants.

Actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher has donated $4 mln in Ripple to Ellen Degeneres' Wildlife Fund live during the Ellen Degeneres Show Thursday, May 24.

Transport and logistics company AP Moller-Maersk has begun using blockchain platform Insurwave for maritime insurance, Seatrade Maritime News reports Friday, May 25.

Chinese internet giant Tencent has partnered with the tax authority in the city of Shenzhen to use blockchain in the fight against tax evasion.

Bitcoin risks closing below the 50-week moving average - an important long-term support not breached for over 2.5 years.

The Alabama Securities Commission, the U.S. state's securities regulator, has joined its counterparts in Texas and New Jersey in hitting out at initial coin offerings that are soliciting local residents.

Sure enough, when CoinDesk visited Pink Taxi Coin's original website - aside from the name change and a shift from a green theme to a pink one - the entire page was seemingly copied and pasted from A2B Taxi's site.

Bitcoin has fallen by more than $200 since our last price piece and is now trading for $7,502.

A new blockchain platform by an established company in the educational sector is going to enable users to earn crypto tokens as they learn - all the while making lessons exciting and ensuring billions of people around the world have access to talented instructors.

U.S. railway network Norfolk Southern has become the latest industry player to join the Blockchain in Transport Alliance.

The TRON mainnet launch is set to take place between June 21st - June 25th. The TRON Foundation has steadily recruited exchanges to support its token migration.

A group of companies piloting a blockchain-based insurance platform for the global shipping industry announced on Friday that the technology is now live in commercial use.

Logistics and supply chain startup ShipChain has refuted the claim of South Carolina regulators that it ran afoul of state securities laws, according to a statement May 24.

The South Carolina Attorney General's Office has just hit the blockchain startup ShipChain, with a cease-and-desist order.

The South African Reserve Bank, the central bank of the Republic, has chosen to call digital currencies "Cyber-tokens" because they "Don't meet the requirements of money," Bloomberg reported May 24.

Towering at 29,029 feet, Mt. Everest is the world's highest peak.

In a civil lawsuit, Matthew Liston, 26, has taken four Augur associates to court, alleging that angel investor Joseph Ball "Joe" Costello, 64, and three other founding members, Jack "John" Peterson, 35, Joseph Charles "Joey" Krug, 22, and Jeremy Gardner, 26, committed fraud, breach of contract, and trade theft in connection with conflicts that arose out of Liston's termination from the company and his stake in Augur's token distribution, leaving him empty-handed.

VeChain, a Shanghai-based blockchain startup, is testing a blockchain application to verify of the wine supply chain and fight counterfeits, South China Morning Post reported May 24.

German bank Commerzbank and steel company Thyssenkrupp have completed a €500,000 pilot transaction of a forex forward on a blockchain, reported Cointelegraph auf Deutsch May 24.The EUR/PLN forward deal worth €500,000 with a one month tenor was initiated by Thyssenkrupp on the Commerzbank's FX Live Trader platform on Wednesday.