The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Financial services provider Mastercard has recently announced it will hire 175 new employees in Dublin to increase its presence in Ireland.

The Bank of Lithuania has reportedly begun looking into cryptocurrencies, initiating a dialogue between commercial banks, government regulators, and crypto traders, local news outlet The Baltic Times reports today, April 15.

As a hobbyist investor, my first foray into cryptocurrency was with Coinbase.

The trouble is many developers see larger industry startups like Coinbase, which made more than $1 billion in revenue last year, as a prime example of the "Big tech companies" that Romero positioned as antagonists.

The Malta Financial Services Authority has released a consultation paper on the possible introduction of a "Financial Instrument Test" that would legally define virtual tokens, according to an April 13 announcement on their site.

A company is building a Blockchain-based system to eliminate fragmentation in the sharing economy - and creating a single app that gives users access to "Any available asset they wish to rent, borrow or share."

Zcash is one of the first cryptocurrency to build privacy into a blockchain-based currency.

The account was apparently a casualty of the ongoing drama between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, two rivals who suffer from an identity crisis over who is the "Real" Bitcoin.

The ban on cryptocurrency and ICO advertisements is not the only way Facebook is putting pressure on fintech enterprises these days.

Tim Draper has been involved in different crypto projects, from the purchase of seized Bitcoins from the Silk Road marketplace website in 2014 to advocating Tezos in 2017.He shared his thoughts with Cointelegraph on Blockchain adoption, regulations in the US and China, and why he wants to leave California.

Nobel Prize laureate for economics Robert Shiller believes that while Bitcoin might be a bubble, that doesn't mean that it will burst and be gone forever, according to an interview on April 13 with CNBC's Trading Nation.

Ontology's trust network solution is built to meet the immense needs of China's ever-expanding blockchain market and beyond; compatible with any chain, device, industry, or system.

After investment tycoon Tim Draper said earlier this week that Bitcoin could hit $250,000 by 2022, CNBC Fast Money's Brian Kelly has supported this prediction in a CNBC interview from yesterday, April 13.In response to a question about Draper's high prediction, Kelly responded that although "It sounds crazy," when one considers that BTC already had a 4,000 percent return over two years, a 3,000 percent return over four years could be a "Continuation of the trend we've seen."

A new Blockchain platform is aiming to stamp out energy waste and misuse by designing a "Simple, sustainable and scalable system" which eliminates imbalances between supply and demand.

Pantera Capital Management, a hedge fund with a focus on cryptocurrencies, said in their April newsletter that Bitcoin's price of $6,500 was probably the low for the cryptocurrency, and that it was "Highly likely" BTC's price will reach above $20,000 this year, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, April 13.In December of last year, CEO of Pantera Capital Dan Morehead predicted that Bitcoin's price could drop 50 percent before it reached new highs, a prediction whose first part has come true, as BTC dropped below $7000 in February - a 65 percent drop.

While Wall Street giants JP Morgan and Citigroup experienced strong first-quarter earnings, their share prices overall fell, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, April 13.

Performers now share much of their charity content online.

Notwithstanding the rumors about the company's culture and known lawsuits over alleged insider trading, Coinbase itself has added to the controversy through a stated commitment to investing in the people it knows.

Recent IOTA news has seen Fujitsu executive Rolf Werner join the IOTA foundation, which contributed to positive investor sentiment, but the most interesting announcement to come from from the IOTA development team recently is the announcement of the upcoming Trinity desktop wallet launch.

At tech meetups in New York City, it's not uncommon to hear developers remark that IOTA's underpinning technology, the "Blockchainless blockchain," or the so-called "Tangle," is the future of the blockchain space.

The adoption of cryptocurrency has been a pressing issue for Muslims around the world.

Mayor-President Joel Robideaux of Lafayette parish, Louisiana proposed the parish government to create its own cryptocurrency and consider launching an Initial Coin Offering, local news The Acadiana Advocate reported April 12.

Port of Walla Walla, Washington commissioners have unanimously agreed to embark on a land lease and purchase option for 10 acres to be used for cryptocurrency mining project by Bitmain subsidiary Ant Creek LLC, local news Union Bulletin reports April 13.The decision to award the permit followed an hour and a half of spirited public debate, after which the commissioners unanimously agreed to award the option for 10 acres, but withheld the option for the sale of 30 additional acres.

The Russian National Intellectual Property Transactions Coordination Center will digitize patent records and create a Blockchain-based database for the State Patent Office of Kyrgyzstan, news outlet TASS reported April 12.

A new phishing email targeting Coinbase users has recently emerged, and appears to be one of the most sophisticated Coinbase phishing attempts to date.

A subsidiary of Germany's second largest stock exchange Börse Stuttgart, will release a cryptocurrency trading app later this year, according to the app's website.

Several major assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Ripple, and Litecoin spent the first half of the week lingering in the red, with Bitcoin falling to $6,700 after a $7,000 weekend "High."

One of the largest cryptocurrency mining farms in Russia will be established in Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia, according to Daniel Zakomolkin, director general of the mining company BitBaza, news outlet TASS reported April 12.

China's crypto mining giant, Bitmain, is one step closer to establishing mining facilities in Washington state.

Around 32,000 investors were reportedly duped by the scams and lobbied outside the offices of Modern Tech in Ho Chi Minh on April 8, although the owners had liquidated the company and evacuated their office space more than a month ago.