The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The historical moment when leaders from South and North Korea met on April 27 and signed an agreement for peace between the two nations has now been permanently recorded on the ethereum blockchain.

Barclays' CEO Jes Staley has refuted recent rumours that the UK bank will be opening a cryptocurrency trading desk, UK media platform Financial News reported May 1.

Joseph Lubin, the co-founder of the Ethereum Foundation, spoke out at the Collision tech conference in New Orleans yesterday.

Bitcoin has been trading in a narrowing price range over the past week, but a bullish breakout is looking likely, the technical charts suggest.

Founders Fund, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early investment in Facebook, has reportedly put money into a cryptocurrency startup that aims to optimize the bulk trading of cryptocurrencies.

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A Blockchain-based company is launching a peer-to-peer network connecting clients with manufacturers of all sizes - preventing bottlenecks in production by mapping out manufacturing capacities around the world.

The CEO of Barclays says the U.K. banking giant has no immediate plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk.

15% of Americans have canceled their cable packages, while 9% have never had a cable or satellite subscription.

"I personally wasted so much time in the bitcoin scaling civil war that I could have used designing [and] building dapps and opening up OpenBazaar to multiple currencies," Sanchez wrote.

The official Twitter account of Vertcoin, a peer-to-peer digital currency and software project, was compromised earlier today in an attempt to carry out a Bitcoin scam.

Skepticism dominated a Tuesday hearing on cryptocurrencies and blockchain at the U.K. parliament, but it was not the members of parliament who set the negative tone.

Martin Walker, director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management, dismissed blockchain technology, calling it a "Pixie dust" fad before the British Parliament, Business Insider reported May 1.

Bitcoin, the world's leading cryptocurrency, has long been facing issues with delivering efficient, affordable payment transactions.

CoinMarketCap.com, the highly popular crypto price tracker, has released an IOS app today, April 30, in honor of its 5th birthday.

Facebook is impressively clear about their ability to collect and sell user data in its privacy policies, showing a complete disregard for any semblance of privacy.

CryptoUK, a self-regulatory trade association for the UK cryptocurrency industry, addressed several Members of Parliament to advocate for favorable regulations in the sector, news outlet City A.M. reported May 1.

Since its inception in 2012, San Francisco based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, has always been a differentiator in the crypto space.

South Korea's central bank, the Bank of Korea, has recently announced it is considering cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications for its project for a "Cashless society," local news TokenPost reports May 1.South Korea's central bank says cryptocurrency and blockchain will allow societies to become coinless.

Coinsecure is still unable to repay its customers following a debilitating theft last month, the India-based cryptocurrency exchange said over the weekend.

Vertcoin's Twitter account has been compromised in an attempt to facilitate a cryptocurrency giveaway scam.

Cryptocurrencies "Do not appear to pose risks to financial stability," the International Monetary Fund said in a report published the second week of April.

Ethereum, the world's second largest cryptocurrency, is coming under particular scrutiny from U.S. federal regulators, the Wall Street Journal reports today, May 1.

Some banks are refusing to process international wire transfers for accounts associated with cryptocurrency, and some decline Bitcoin futures trading on US exchanges.

Bitcoin's price rose 33% against the U.S. dollar in April, making it the best month of 2018 for the world's largest cryptocurrency.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin said yesterday that ethereum's in-house scaling solution, sharding, is moving closer to completion.

A crypto-related decree in Belarus will be updated to require certain crypto exchanges to provide customer data to authorities, local news outlet Forklog reports today, May 1.Belarus' Decree on the Development of Digital Economy is being revised to include a requirement for crypto exchanges based in the country's High-Tech Park to provide identifying data on their customers.

In a letter to investors, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that demand for the powerful computers used to mine ether and other cryptocurrencies has contributed to a "Boom of computing."

CULedger - the credit union services firm that grew out of a blockchain-focused consortium effort - is partnering with DLT startup Hedera to build a public system for cross-border payments.