The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council released a second Blockchain resource specifically targeting government uptake of the technology this month, Forbes reports Sunday, Apr 15.

Bitcoin's price has gone back under $8,000, and Ethereum's briefly under $500, as the crypto markets experience a slight slump today, April 16.

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Electronics giant Samsung is mulling the use of a blockchain platform to manage its global supply chains, according to a report.

Mac users who have been waiting to run a Lightning Node can finally rest easy - the tutorial on how to install a Litecoin mainnet Lightning Network node on Mac has been officially released.

South Korean electronics giant Samsung revealed it intends to use Blockchain for its global supply chain, Bloomberg reported April 16.

Mastercard has filed a patent for a Blockchain system to store and verify identity data, in an application published by the U.S Patent and Trademark Office April 12.

He believes limiting the market supply to exactly that figure, twice the number of ether sold in the platform's 2014 ethereum fundraising, could help long term.

The head of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission said during a speech on April 13 on "New Technologies and Asset Management" that the type of fundraising conducted through Initial Coin Offerings is better suited to venture capital funds.

The EU nation of Malta is moving closer to introducing a test that would clearly define when assets derived from initial coin offerings are securities.

A Taiwanese Bitcoin miner has been shot by gangsters after an argument about mining profits went wrong, local media report April 15.

A move above resistance at $8,500 would provide confirmation bitcoin's bear market has ended, the technical charts indicate.

Hong Kong's securities regulator is taking a skeptical tone on initial coin offerings.

A bitcoin miner in Taiwan is blaming the crackdown on bitcoin trading in mainland China for an incident in which he was shot by local gangsters.

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At the time, few realized that an unexpected market drop just before Christmas would signal the beginning of the end for the nearly 12-month digital currency bull run that shook markets and transformed spurious observers into enthralled participants.

A newly published patent filing from Mastercard suggests that the payments giant is looking at blockchain as a way to safeguard identity data.

"We may look back on this time as the 'Crypto Tax Crisis of 2018,' as thanks to tax liabilities we're witnessing the most concentrated period of net fiat outflows that the crypto asset ecosystem has experienced in its short life," Chris Burniske, a partner at Placeholder VC, and Jonathan Cheesman wrote in a recent, highly detailed Medium post.

The disruption of blockchain technologies is a global phenomenon that has already begun to change our conceptions of finance and economy.

A year and a half after completing its successful $8 million ICO, Golem's "Brass" beta is up and running on the Ethereum mainnet.

Yocom-Piatt agreed to a phone interview with CryptoSlate to talk about market volatility, the recent cryptocurrency ad bans and Decred's development.

There wasn't a lot of decisive action on the global equity markets last week as uncertainty seemed to prevail once again.

While staunch Verge supporters are quick to decry "FUD" at any and all negative news regarding their favored coin, an increasing amount of evidence that the project may be a large-scale exit scam is manifesting - notably, the disappearance of over 18 million XVG from the Verge "Fundraising" wallet.

As per Venezuelan newspaper, the Official Gazette, all government institutions are now required to accept Petro as legal tender.

Chilean cryptocurrency exchanges BUDA, Orionx, and CryptoMarket have recently applied to an appeals court to confront the banks that shut down their platforms' accounts, Bloomberg reported Friday, April 13.

Australia has been very direct and positive in terms of cryptocurrency regulation and is already implementing some of its bigger plans, like exchange registration.

Brian Kelly of CNBC's Fast Money compared cryptocurrency to the "Internet in the 1980s," emphasizing that Bitcoin is still in its early stages in an April 13 interview on CNBC's Trading Block.

The Russian government has reportedly prepared a review of the draft bill "On Digital Financial Assets," detailing that the exchange of cryptocurrency for fiat for more than 600,000 rubles or its foreign equivalent is subject to mandatory currency exchange regulation, according to local crypto news outlet Forklog Friday, April 13.This review has not yet been presented to the State Duma, according to Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the financial market committee.