The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency miners in South Korea may find it to be more difficult in getting foreign-made mining chips imported to the country.

A breakout above the 50-day SMA can push prices towards $600 and then to $730 levels.

The Slavic god of lightning, Perun, is entering the ethereum ecosystem.

Dow Jones Media Group has partnered with the privacy-oriented browser startup Brave to experiment with a blockchain content delivery system, the companies announced Wednesday.

Coins like DigixDAO have the potential for all the advantages of gold as a reliable store of value, combined with the speed and convenience of internet transactions.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has awarded a new grant that supports the development of an autonomous spacecraft that could make decisions using Blockchain technology without human intervention, news outlet Space.com reported April 18.

IBM and Salon Media are piloting a proof-of-concept Blockchain product created by AdLedger, a nonprofit consortium that develops shared ledger technologies for the digital advertising market, Marketing Dive reported April 18.

Indian banking giant ICICI Bank has consigned more than 250 corporates to its Blockchain platform for domestic and international trade finance transactions, according to a press release published April 17.

This shows that Bitcoin has developed new strongholds at the $8,000 range, which is good news considering its position of $6,600 less than a week ago.

In an egregious example of the "Blue checkmark" scam infecting crypto-Twitter, a fraudulent account that recently aimed to dupe users of the cryptocurrency Verge moved onto Bitfinex - that is, before going dark complete.

Origin, the startup behind a platform for peer-to-peer services, has raised $28.5 million through a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens sale.

The founder of German-based startup Savedroid has allegedly disappeared after raising a reported $50 mln through both an Initial Coin Offering and private funding, according to local news outlet WirtschaftsWoche, today April 18.

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken isn't planning to respond to the New York Attorney General's newly unveiled inquiry into the ecosystem.

While the smartest minds have created some game-changing companies backed by the power of Blockchain and cryptocurrencies, nefarious minds have also jumped on the bandwagon, fleecing unwitting investors in elaborate scams.

Police in China's northwestern city Xi'an have arrested a primary suspect and three accomplices for a suspected cryptocurrency "Pyramid-scheme" that is alleged to have defrauded over 13,000 investors of ¥86 mln, local news reported April 18.

Cannabis social networking platform MassRoots is developing a crypto token and other blockchain-based applications for its ecosystem of more than one million users.

The alleged thief behind Iceland's "Big Bitcoin Heist" has escaped from prison and escaped to Sweden.

The US-based Blockchain project Basis, which claims to provide a non-volatile cryptocurrency or stablecoin, has recently raised $133 mln in funding from big name investors, according to an official blog post published today, April 18.

Cambridge Analytica was responsible for compromising the data from 87 million Facebook profiles.

Energy giant BP would consider partnering with blockchain startups that are doing initial coin offerings, and it's even tested tokens internally, an executive said Wednesday.

The two biggest crypto concerns of global banks are debt liability from customers who have no protection from market volatility; and security risks associated with unregulated exchanges, such as terrorism funding, scam operations, money laundering and other financial crimes.

Craig Wright, the chief scientist of blockchain startup nChain who once claimed to be bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, has filed a motion in U.S. federal court to dismiss a billion-dollar lawsuit filed against him.

In early 2018, a team of entrepreneurs in Singapore launched a startup called the Blue Whale Foundation, aiming to overcome the crucial problems of sharing economy, such as high commissions and no employment benefits for the self-employed.

Brazil's largest investment company XP Investimentos is allegedly seeking to launch an over-the-counter Bitcoin exchange, local news outlet Portal do Bitcoin revealed Tuesday, April 17.

Tokyo and Hyogo police have arrested a further five persons in connection with an alleged fraud case involving ¥190 mln worth of Bitcoin, bringing the total number of arrested persons in the case to 12, local news outlet TBS reported April 16.

The privacy-focused cryptocurrencies are reporting solid gains today, soon after Pornhub announced it will now accept payments in verge's XVG token.

Online advertising has long seemed a ripe target for blockchain transformation.

Riot Blockchain, one of the many companies that changed their name to contain the word 'Blockchain' last year evidently on industry hype, has received a subpoena from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a SEC Form 10-K annual report filed Tuesday, April 17.

The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission has officially warned against 14 cryptocurrency investment schemes seeking to attract consumers in the country.

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei revealed its latest Hyperledger-fuelled Blockchain offering at a conference in Shenzhen Tuesday, April 17.