The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Analysts Dominic Chu and Robert Kelly weighed in on recent reports that the New York Stock Exchange plans to offer Bitcoin swap contracts, on CNBC Tuesday, May 8.

China's Ministry of Public Security has developed a blockchain system aimed to more securely store evidence collected during police investigations.

Having hit seven-day lows below $9,000 this morning, bitcoin is looking decidedly weak.

Since fall of 2017, CryptoKitties has gained international renown as a fad and media vehicle for exposing cryptocurrency to the mainstream.

A sandbox for ICOs is not the best approach to token regulation, an SEC commissioner said last week.

Skepticism surrounding the world's leading cryptocurrency remains as ex-Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn says that Bitcoin will not be the true "Global cryptocurrency" that people such as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey thinks it will one day become.

Winklevoss IP, the company owned by Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has been awarded with a patent claim that aims to settle exchange traded products holding cryptocurrencies.

ACINQ, the company behind the "Eclair" lightning implementation, unveiled an Android wallet app at the beginning of April that can be used to send mainnet lightning payments.

Bitcoin spent the better part of a decade on the fringes of the financial system.

Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive who led Donald Trump's National Economic Council until last month, weighed in on bitcoin and blockchain technology on Tuesday.

Under pressure from the U.S. Congress and users worldwide, Facebook is seeking an innovative solution to its data privacy-related issues.

David Marcus, the head of Facebook's messaging app Messenger, announced that the social media site is exploring possible applications for blockchain technology, CNBC reported May 8."I'm setting up a small group to explore how to best leverage blockchain across Facebook, starting from scratch," Marcus shared in a post Tuesday afternoon on his personal page.

At press time, Stellar Lumens is trading for about 38 cents.

The Texas State Security Board issued a cease-and-desist order May 8 to a Bitcoin investment company that reportedly offers unregistered securities and makes deceiving statements that mislead investors.

The Ukrainian National Securities and Stock Market Commission will consider recognizing cryptocurrencies as a financial instrument, according to an announcement May 8.The head of the commission, Timur Khromaev, made the announcement in a Facebook post following the annual conference of the International Organization of Securities Commissions on crypto and Initial Coin Offerings.

Social media giant Facebook is launching a team dedicated to exploring blockchain technology.

Gary Cohn, former Goldman Sachs President as well as former chief economic advisor to US President Donald Trump, believes that there will a global cryptocurrency in the future, but it will be a coin "More easily understood" than Bitcoin, CNBC reports May 8.Cohn told CNBC that he thinks there will be a "Global cryptocurrency at some point where the world understands it and it's not based on mining costs or cost of electricity or things like that." Bitcoin mining relies on miners' computers to solve hashes in order to get a block reward through a Proof-of-Work protocol.

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A jury will decide whether tokens issued through two allegedly fraudulent initial coin offerings count as securities, a U.S. district court judge said Tuesday.

A new version of the code behind Casper, a planned change to the way the ethereum network reaches consensus, has been published for wider scrutiny by auditors and client developers.

Lawrence Lerner pioneered systems to enable digital cash and has been building cash-less payment and financial reward systems since the late eighties.

While banking institutions' attitudes towards Bitcoin and blockchain has changed significantly, there is still a notable attitude of blockchain over Bitcoin which is still a bit counter-intuitive.

Maughan's remarks came during a wider discussion on the application of blockchain to supply chains, joining a panel of witnesses that included Maersk head of global trade digitization Michael White, UPS vice president of global customs brokerage staff Chris Rubio and Nuby Law IPR counsel Robert Chiaviello.

The Colorado Senate passed a bill on May 7 that involves using blockchain tech for government record keeping and cyber security.

Two United States House Subcommittees held a hearing today, May 8, on how blockchain tech can be used in supply chain management.

The Australian government has allocated AU $700,000 to its Digital Transformation Agency to explore blockchain applications within government services.

The Texas State Securities Board has issued cease-and-desist orders to two bitcoin investment schemes that it alleges are selling unregistered securities and making fraudulent claims to the state's residents.

BMW has completed a pilot together with crypto startup DOVU, an official blog post from DOVU outlined today, May 8.

The sudden resignation of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday night doesn't appear to have impacted that office's inquiry into more than a dozen cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Coinhive crypto mining code has been recently detected on more than 300 government and university websites worldwide, cyber security researcher Troy Mursch reported Saturday, May 5.