The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Australia's Securities and Investments Commission said that it is "Taking action" to protect consumers in the ICO space in a press release published today, May 1.

ICON foundation, the not-for-profit foundation that manages the ICON blockchain, was created by The Loop, which operates as a joint venture between three of Korea's largest universities and DAYLI Intelligence.

CoinMarketCap, the popular cryptocurrency market data site, has released its first mobile app.

Vitalik "Not giving away ETH" Buterin April 30, 2018 In a Reddit post and a series of tweets following yesterday's, Buterin delivered a proof of concept for the technology and suggested the "Bag of ideas" for its implementation on Ethereum was "Pretty well-established."

U.S.-based life science research marketplace Scientist.com revealed a new blockchain platform Monday, April 30.

Ripple's global network of banks and payment providers has a new member.

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission said Tuesday that it is taking aim at fraud in the initial coin offering market.

Sharing economy startup Origin has tapped a PayPal co-founder and early YouTube employee as its latest hire.

The Hong Kong Financial Services and Treasury released a report yesterday, April 30, on the status of money laundering and terrorism financing.

The crypto markets are seeing a slight correction, with Bitcoin dropping below $9,000 today, May 1, according to data from Cointelegraph's price index.

A team of seasoned real estate entrepreneurs have created a Blockchain-powered transaction management platform that is designed to eliminate "Pain points" when buying and selling real estate.

Blockchain startup Sun Exchange has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme on a pilot program that seeks to bring solar power to a university in Moldova.

The culprits, many believe, are application-specific integrated circuits - the expensive, super-fast hashing chips known as ASICs, the engines driving the rigs in giant mining farms.

Ethereum mastermind Vitalik Buterin released a new proof of concept that demonstrates how the sharding scalability solution can be "Bolted on" to the Ethereum main chain.

Scientist.com, an online marketplace for outsourced research, has launched a blockchain-based data verification platform, the company announced on Monday.

The reason is the far-reaching game of mining giant Bitmain, which is building up its monopoly on the market by stamping out new ASICs for top coins.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Chris Giancarlo said he doesn't see comprehensive crypto legislation coming from the federal level in the near future, CNBC reports April 30.

Shares of financial services and mobile payment company Square dropped Monday after a critical tweet by short-seller Andrew Left's Citron Research, CNBC reported April 30.

Not only are developers divided, but the wider community also seemed splintered on the subject, with a "Coin-voting" website - a web page that enables ethereum users to vote on topics based on the number of ether coins they have - showing a nearly even distribution of those for and against.

The European Commission has recently named blockchain technology to be part of its framework to combat the spread of false information online, TechCrunch reports Monday, April 30.The EC has identified blockchain as a critical part of what it will call the Code of Practice on Disinformation, which it intends to introduce by summer 2018.According to a recently published press release by the EC, blockchain technology is one of "Emerging technologies which are changing the way information is produced and disseminated, and have the potential to play a central role in tackling disinformation over the longer term."

The government of Saudi Arabia completed a "Blockchain bootcamp" last week, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology announced in a press release April 29.

"UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies is no longer associated with the IOTA Foundation. In relation to recent news report [sic], we reaffirm our support for open security research, as a prerequisite for understanding the assurances provided by any blockchain technology. It is inappropriate for security researchers to be subject to threats of legal action for disclosing their results."

The crypto markets have bottomed out, and analysts are predicting a strong rally from the current levels to the end of the year.

Blockchain innovation is not just for hotshot startups.

As one of the first cryptocurrencies to launch, Ethereum has since revolutionized the blockchain industry through its introduction of dApps and smart contracts - which have been used to launch countless ICOs worldwide.

In the midst of Venezuela's ongoing economic crisis, President Nicolas Maduro has taken yet another controversial step to promote the nation's very own blockchain-based cryptocurrency, Petro, by offering the Indian government a 30% discount on crude oil prices 'if' the Southeast Asian nation agrees to make the exchange via Petro tokens.

Rather, the allegations started after it was noticed that the block explorer, a tool for visualizing data on Bitcoin.com, an educational site that Roger Ver owns, had labeled what many consider the "Bitcoin cash protocol," the version of the blockchain that forked off bitcoin this past August, "Bitcoin."

The US Federal Trade Commission will be holding a free workshop this summer titled "Decrypting Cryptocurrency Scams" according to a press release published today, April 30.

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