The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Altcoins have been inching their way deeper into my trading routine and this seventh entry of the crypto trading journal features a newly opened position on VeChain, as well as a timely buy of Stellar Lumens.

Falling below $9,000, Bitcoin has seen another dip today and its price dropped over $200 in an hour.

So I think what's challenging when we talk about bitcoin is unlike debt or equities bitcoin represents three different things.

That's the analogy Brown sees with the bitcoin bubble of 2017, as explained in a recent episode of Bitcoin Macro, a pop-up podcast series featuring speakers from CoinDesk's upcoming Invest: NYC conference on Tuesday, Nov. 12.

"One of the things I was hearing all the time when I was in the banking world was 'OK, but this bitcoin thing, it doesn't have any intrinsic value,'" said Ambre Soubiran, CEO of cryptocurrency market-data startup Kaiko.

The founder of Bitcoin mining rig manufacturer MicroBT is being held as of Nov. 8 by Shenzhen Police to assist in an investigation, according to a local news source.

Those seeking employment in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry have reason to be positive, says employment search company Indeed.

Australian blockchain energy firm Power Ledger has partnered with a local energy retailer to roll out its technology in South Australia.

In turn, new regulations are being imposed to control the way cryptocurrency companies operate and do business globally.

Singapore-based blockchain application platform VeChain has unveiled a new blockchain tracking system for the food and beverage industry.

Morgan Creek Digital now takes up around 1 percent of the assets of two Fairfax Retirement System pension funds - an investment which has more than doubled since taking their first position in the fund that closed in February.

International banking group Standard Chartered has become the latest member of a blockchain standard-building organization, the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance.

Zuoxing Yang, founder and CEO of Shenzhen-based bitcoin mining equipment miner MicroBT, is being held by local police to assist an investigation, CoinDesk has learned.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray says cryptocurrency is a "Significant issue" that is likely to become a "Bigger and bigger" problem for the law enforcement agency.

Researchers behind a monthly cryptocurrency report entitled "Bloomberg Crypto Outlook" said that Ethereum, XRP, and other digital assets included in BGCI are unlikely to recover to June 2019 levels until Bitcoin achieves a record high, Three Arrows Capital CEO Su Zhu observed on Twitter.

The former head of People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan has argued that the Libra stablecoin would be more readily trusted if it were in the hands of an organization like the International Monetary Fund.

New York-based financial technology firm Tassat - formerly known as trueDigital - has succeeded in overcoming the first hurdle in its bid to launch a fully-regulated crypto derivatives exchange.

Bitcoin's short-term 50-period moving average is edging closer toward the longer-term 100-period moving average on the weekly chart, hinting at a potential bullish "Golden cross" formation for the first time in 3.5 years.

We have started to see repo rates spike upward, pointing to an indication of supply issues from banks issuing short-term cash to other banks and an increasing demand from banks and corporations that need short-term cash.

US announced that it would be listing VeChain to its retail platform for U.S. cryptocurrency investors.

USDT tokens are now fully backed by Tether's reserves, the stablecoin issuer said Thursday.

A senior United States federal official has argued that Facebook's Libra highlights the need for the Federal Reserve to act urgently and launch its own real-time payments system.

Bitcoin price lost support at $9,000 on Nov. 8 after several days of downward action finally saw markets make a decisive move.

A former narcotics trafficker pled guilty to charges that he laundered $19 million in profit through Silk Road. Prosecutors with the Southern District of New York announced a plea deal with Hugh Brian Haney on Thursday, adding another postscript to the infamous dark web marketplace's history.

After disappearing off the face of the Internet, Jörg Molt-the latest individual to have claimed to have been involved in the creation of Bitcoin-is back on Twitter.

Team lead at the Ethereum Foundation Péter Szilágyi has confirmed Dec. 4 as the expected date for the network's forthcoming Istanbul hard fork.

Asian banking giant DBS and multinational commodity trading firm Trafigura Group are tapping blockchain to facilitate global trade.

So far November has started off as a relatively uneventful month for Bitcoin's price action but all of this could change before the weekend is over.

The Libra cryptocurrency project should be sufficient motivation for the Federal Reserve launch a real-time payments system, a senior government official wrote Thursday.

Weiss Crypto Ratings, a crypto and financial ratings company, said that the XRP community transitioning over to XLM would make sense.