The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

CryptoSlate recently caught up with Will Harborne, the co-founder and CEO of DeversiFi, a decentralized crypto exchange that was formerly known as Ethfinex.

German securities marketplace Deutsche Boerse and Swiss state-run telecom Swisscom have settled securities transactions using different blockchain protocols.

The software available for download on Monero's official website was compromised to steal cryptocurrency, according to a Nov. 19 Reddit post published by the coin's core development team.

The mission of the Decred DAO is to enable direct sovereignty over the protocol, which is built to be a sustainable and long-term store of value.

Bond market veteran Nik Bhatia says that with Lightning, Bitcoin has become an unprecedented asset by combining a store of value with medium-of-exchange scale and speed.

The developers of privacy-centric cryptocurrency Grin have hit back at the fundamental claims of an article purporting to have "Broken" the coin's privacy model.

As said by industry executives like Xapo CEO Wences Casares, many investors in the crypto sector believe that Bitcoin will either hit zero or surpass a trillion-dollar market cap in the long term.

The need for censorship-resistant currencies like Bitcoin has been thrown, yet again, into stark relief as HSBC shutters an account reportedly used to fund Hong Kong protestors.

Bitcoin barely managed to maintain $8,000 support on Nov. 19 as analysts warn the outlook for markets is increasingly bearish.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last week, Google had revealed plans - devised under a project code-named Cache - to launch consumer checking accounts in partnership with Citigroup.

One of the main competitors of P2P Bitcoin exchange LocalBitcoins has taken even more of its market share as the Finnish company seeks regulatory compliance.

Bitcoin and the aggregated crypto market incurred a steep and widespread sell-off today that came about after a brief consolidation period.

New York-based fintech provider Tassat is partnering with digital asset market maker Blockfills to launch an institutional Trade at Settlement product for spot Bitcoin.

One of the world's top crypto law firms, Gresham International, announced this week that it submitted a proposal to begin working with the government of Paraguay on a raft of new cryptocurrency legislation.

Blockchain education platform Longhash has released research that it claims debunks the recent single-whale theory of the 2017 Bitcoin bull run.

Maksim Zaslavskiy, a computer programmer from Brooklyn and the first person in the United States to be convicted of running a fraudulent initial coin offering has been sentenced to a year and a half behind bars.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is reviewing its decision to reject the Bitcoin exchange-traded fund filing from Bitwise Asset Management and NYSE Arca.Taking a second lookIn an announcement on Nov. 18, the commission said that the ETF filing from Bitwise Asset Management and NYSE Arca will return to review, following the earlier rejection for not meeting the necessary requirements.

Chinese news program Focus Report has said that there are around 32,000 companies in China that claim to use blockchain technology.

The United States has extradited a Swedish national from Thailand for allegedly selling fraudulent securities to investors online, garnering over $11 million worth of Bitcoin.

After another sell-off earlier today, crypto markets have continued to fall, with Bitcoin briefly dropping below the $8,200 threshold.

A Spanish financial watchdog has issued a warning against Ethereum-based token dubbed AlyCoin.

Anonymous hacker Phineas Fisher will pay up to $100,000 in crypto to hackers for leaking some damaging information about global high-profile firms.

According to an expert at blockchain research firm Dragonfly Research, Mimblewimble's privacy is fundamentally flawed, which he reportedly proved by discovering the exact addresses of senders and recipients for 96% transactions of Mimblewimble's privacy-centric coin Grin.

I will use this piece to analyze the growing affinity for digital assets and how Bitcoin is fast becoming a viable investment asset class for institutional investors and family offices.

On the other hand, if the bears sink the price below $173.841, a retest of $161.056 to $151.829 support zone is likely.

Decentralized payment processing company Radpay has secured $1.2 million in a seed round, with the participation of investment firms Resiliency Ventures and BlackLaunch.

On Nov. 15, Bitcoin's blockchain mempool was at its highest level since January last year, according to figures from blockchain data website Blockchain.

The number of open BitMEX Bitcoin futures contracts tends to peak at around $1 billion, or 100,000 BTC. Having open interest heavily dependant on key psychological levels shows that the crypto derivatives market has matured.

The move is going to bring a wide range of new features to the Maker protocol, including Dai Savings Rate and additional collateral asset types.

China's Zhejiang province has processed nearly $6 million via a blockchain medical billing platform using Ant Financial's blockchain technology, Chinese publication QNSB reports on Nov. 18.