The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

While bitcoin ended February with marginal gains, and the likes of litecoin and lesser-known DigixDao shined, names like ICON, NEM and cardano took a beating as the market turned south, CoinDesk data shows.

Dismal? Not quite, but the crypto markets had a rough ride in February.

The receiver for AriseBank, the Texas ICO issuer at the center of a securities fraud case, suspects the firm's co-founders have not been entirely forthcoming with asset disclosures, documents show.

Having struggled to find acceptance above the $500 billion mark, the total value of all cryptocurrencies is set to end the week at a moderate loss.

Feb 13, 2018 at 13:35 UTC. The price of ETC, the native currency of the ethereum classic blockchain, is reporting double-digit gains Tuesday, a move that effectively recovers losses seen over the last two weeks.

Bitcoin has dropped 16 percent over the same period to 10-week lows below $8,000, and is heading towards its worst weekly loss since April 2013.

According to some, the Israel Tax Authority's draft circular, published last week, detailing how domestic companies' ICO revenue could be taxed, is an effort by the Israeli government to entice token issuers to stay on the Middle Eastern soil.

One of a growing number of crypto tokens referred to as "Stablecoins," these cryptocurrencies are engineered to adjust their supply as the market shifts, issuing when prices rise and retracting when they drop, in an effort to keep their prices steady.

Jan 12, 2018 at 18:00 UTC. Four years after cryptocurrency exchange Vircurex lost its funds due to alleged hacks, the firm is being sued by its former customers.

To describe Telegram's planned initial coin offering as ambitious would be an understatement.

Keeping all this in perspective, it's no shock to anyone that the crypto community faces ever-increasing scrutiny, with regulation in its various forms stretching from China to the U.S. The biggest common denominator in the argument around cryptocurrency is whether the tokens in question truly do have an underlying utility.

At press time, the price of bitcoin, the market's largest asset, was trading below $14,000 according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index, up slightly from a daily low of $12,504.

The price of the digital token underlying Augur's ethereum-based prediction market has risen sharply in the past day, market data shows.

Dec 8, 2017 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Dec 8, 2017 at 13:08 UTC. The price of bitcoin is off to a slow start on Friday.

The price of bitcoin is surging on the back of a strong night-time trading session in which the cryptocurrency rose 10 percent to top $14,000 for the first time.

Nov 6, 2017 at 15:30 UTC. Ethereum classic rose to eight-week high today - its highest level since Sep.

Executives of Russia's National Settlement Depository have revealed new details about a plan to build a blockchain-based depository platform for safeguarding crypto assets.

Oct 24, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. UTCUpdated Oct 26, 2017 at 9:06 p.m. UTC. Thanks to blockchain, the world's stock exchanges are now being reimagined from the ground up.

Sep 6, 2017 at 17:00 UTCUpdated Sep 6, 2017 at 22:33 UTC. Cryptocurrency exchanges in China are moving to delist cryptographic tokens sold through initial coin offerings in the wake of a government crackdown on the funding model.

Called Bitcoin Cash, the effort will effectively fork bitcoin's existing software and transaction history, and in the process, give every bitcoin user new cryptocurrency tokens on a new blockchain with different rules.

The World Economic Forum has published a detailed white paper arguing that blockchain stakeholders should organize in a way that would dwarf even the largest consortia.

What should investors make of this mysterious project? And what should they think when, as part of an effort to build the platform, they hear the company is raising funds through a four-stage offering of 1 billion EOS tokens, scheduled to commence Monday?

Jun 21, 2017 at 19:25 UTCUpdated Jun 22, 2017 at 15:25 UTC. The ethereum blockchain is beginning to show signs it's being impacted by a new influx of users.

Jun 15, 2017 at 14:30 UTC. Just hours after traders reported a shift in strategy, the global cryptocurrency markets appear to be correcting - and fast.

A consortium of India-based banking firms including State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and DCB Bank has formally selected Microsoft Azure as their exclusive cloud partner.

In this article, Piasecki offers his commentary on the rising price of XRP, the native token on the Ripple Consensus Ledger, aiming to offer a valuation for the cryptographic asset based on its underlying protocol and desired utility.

Tired of scams? In this opinion piece, Mougayar argues that more failures are what's needed to take blockchain technology to the next level.

May 13, 2017 at 09:25 UTCUpdated Jul 2, 2017 at 14:08 UTC. After a shaky start this spring, a project called the Ethereum Name Service appears to be attracting serious capital.

May 8, 2017 at 13:00 UTCUpdated May 8, 2017 at 23:16 UTC. If there's one overarching theme in the blockchain technology space, it's the push for greater privacy and confidentiality.

First envisioned as a way to expand bitcoin, Lightning has yet to go live on the world's largest cryptocurrency.