The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

After selling off all of his Overstock shares, former CEO Patrick Byrne is reportedly still holding a major stake in tZero, Overstock's crypto token platform.

Friday, Nov. 22 - Cryptocurrency prices are bleeding heavily, with some of the top-20 coins showing losses of close to 10% on the day.

This cryptocurrency went from trading at a high of $0.083 on Nov. 12 to a low of $0.053 today.

The Finnish Population Register Centre is coordinating a simulated ransomware cyberattack on more than 200 Finnish cities and public organizations.

As mind-boggling as it may appear, is this total debt really so bad? Debt, after all, can stimulate growth, enabling a country to build roads, bridges, canals and universities, as well as pay pensions and ensure a higher well-being of its nation.

According to Rodriguez, the "In/Out Money" model considers the distribution of Bitcoin throughout individual wallets based on the current price.

Bitcoin opened the day at $7,600 and began a sharp decline to find lows of $6,800 - a loss of just over 10%. Price has since been pushed back across $7,000 with buyers showing interest in prices below the $7K handle.

BTC/USD. Bitcoin has broken below the critical support at $7,337.

American digital asset management fund Grayscale Investments is soon launching its diversified cryptocurrency investment product for public trading.

The long-awaited balance snapshot for Cardano's Shelley incentivized testnet was an overwhelming success.

The United States Deputy Treasury Secretary argued that decentralized privately-issued digital currencies can shift some functions from the state to the private sector.

Morocco is looking to expand access to financial services through the integration of blockchain technology in the country's financial sector.

The Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Munich and Upper Bavaria, Germany, will issue its first blockchain-enabled training certificates next spring in cooperation with the Digital Ministry.

Harvard University's Kennedy School carried out a live simulation of a White House National Security Council meeting on Nov. 19, featuring former senior administration officials and thought leaders.

The CBDC - dubbed the "uDinar" by Universa Hub Africa, though similar projects have used the term "eDinar" - was set to be state-owned and backed by paper money, the reports claimed.

Tezos has partnered with Singapore government-backed blockchain platform Tribe to jointly launch a training program for developers on the Tezos blockchain.

Despite being seen as a cure for all Bitcoin's problems, the Lightning Network is yet to see major adoption and has recorded less than impressive network stats this year.

Heath Tarbert, who assumed his post following former Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo in July 2019, stated that taking such an approach in regulating digital assets would allow a period of development and observation before it may be appropriate to adopt more targeted rules.

The CertiK Foundation, an organization that develops security infrastructure for blockchains, will introduce the open beta of its CertiK Chain next week.

Despite many prominent crypto-related companies basing themselves in the U.K., the country yet lacks any concrete crypto regulation compared to some of its Asian and European counterparts.

Alibaba Group's movie-making arm Alibaba Pictures reportedly plans to tokenize distribution rights for its new film "Striding into the Wind," Chinese English-language publication China.org.

The non-profit Human Rights Foundation has analyzed the censorship and privacy landscape of stablecoins in a report published on Nov. 20.

Surely the greatest irony in the blockchain space is that there has never been any agreement on "The best" consensus model.

The European Commission and European Investment Fund has launched a new investment scheme for artificial intelligence and blockchain in Europe, the organization announced in a Nov. 20 blog post.

Cryptocurrency exchanges operating illegally in China face a new threat after the central bank announced it would take new steps to uphold its trading ban.

Two thieves at a Canadian grocery store swiped $4,000 from a Bitcoin ATM but forgot to check the second canister, leaving $50,000 behind.

The Bitcoin price has fallen by nearly 30 percent since rising to as high as $10,600 in October.

Bitcoin proponents have ridiculed one of the cryptocurrency's most infamous critics after he delivered a highly bearish price prediction.

The institutional asset custody arm of United States-based crypto exchange Coinbase has announced it is transitioning to an internationally-based staking service as of Nov. 21.

Cryptocurrency exchanges operating illegally in one city in China will face the wrath of a joint government effort to oust them, reports claim.