The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, said the country needs to "Seize the opportunity" afforded by blockchain technology.

View Bitcoin has charted a so-called death cross with recent the drop to $7,400.

The World Economic Forum and seven major mining and metals firms are partnering to develop responsible sourcing and sustainability practices using blockchain.

Crypto exchange Bittrex will once again extend its deadline for New York customers to withdraw funds from their accounts following approval from the New York Department of Financial Services.

According to a senior advisor at consultancy firm McKinsey, John Straw, blockchain could make the City of London irrelevant in the near future.

A professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business says cryptocurrencies will put an end to the windfall that banks currently enjoy from low-interest deposits.

A Russian nuclear lab scientist will serve three years in a prison colony for illegally using government equipment to mine bitcoin.

Despite Bitcoin's recent bearish condition and low market sentiment, the majority of Bitcoin holders are still in profit, according to data from the crypto analytics platform IntotheBlock.

Licensed crypto exchange Huobi Japan has raised 5 million yen from Financial Products Group, a financial instruments business operator.

Bitcoin has transferred $11 trillion in wealth since its blockchain first went live in 2009, according to the fresh calculations.

"Total ETH locked in DeFi is approaching its all-time high of 2.332M, levels last seen in mid-April 2019. At the moment, ~2.13% of all ETH is locked in DeFi.".

Twitter will not be joining the Libra Association, according to CEO Jack Dorsey.

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Bitcoin proponents are encouraging Lebanese citizens to swap fiat for crypto after it emerged the country's banks would stay closed.

Ivan Manuel Molina Lee, the president of controversial Panama-based payments processor Crypto Capital tied to Bitfinex and other major cryptocurrency exchanges, was arrested by Polish authorities.

Coinplug, one of the earliest bitcoin exchange, wallet and payment startups in South Korea, has raised 7.5 billion won, or $6.4 million, from venture arms of major local financial institutions.

Nexo, a crypto lending institution, announced that it has lowered the interest rates on its instant crypto credit lines.

Michael Novogratz, Galaxy Digital CEO and chairman, spoke to CNBC's Squawk Box where he said that a new Bitcoin fund was in the works.

"This is the first fiat trading pair on [Binance.] You know what it happens next, right? First leads to more...".

Polish police have arrested Ivan Manuel Molina Lee, president of Crypto Capital, on accusations of money laundering.

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Major cryptocurrency exchange Kraken made its WebSockets private Application Program Interface available for all Kraken clients.

The number of Americans who own cryptocurrencies has almost doubled in 2019, from 7.95% in 2018 to 14.4%, according to a new survey by Finder.

After being banned for more than a month, Cointelegraph is once again accessible via Facebook.

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, made it crystal clear that Twitter will never join Facebook's Libra project.

In a recent interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box," CEO at Galaxy Digital Michael Novogratz stated that Facebook could have taken a different approach when it announced the creation of Libra.

The United States-based branch of major crypto exchange Binance, Binance.

The blistering pace at which the latest developments have occured shows no sign of slowing, with the court hearing pushed back to February 2020 and investors voting against a refund of up to 77% of their initial investment.

Galaxy Digital Asset Management, a division of the merchant bank Galaxy Digital, is launching two bitcoin funds in November, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

In contrast, some of Bitcoin's charts show that the asset could possibly dump in the days following the halving historically, all-time highs have followed halving events in the long term.