The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The Libra Association is in talks with European Union regulators, according to its managing director, according to an interview with Reuters, Sept. 27.

Friday, Sept. 27 - The top-20 digital currencies are reporting mixed signals today, experiencing moderate gains and losses throughout the past 24 hours following the nosedive they took on Tuesday, Sept. 24.Cryptocurrency market daily overview.

The Iranian government has been cracking down on cryptocurrency mining operations over the past three months, pending new legislation for formal mining licenses.

A new bit of malware called Masad Stealer can replace wallet addresses as you type them thanks to malicious code injected into your browser.

A subsidiary of Argentinian smart contract platform RSK has purchased Latin America's social media giant Taringa, gaining exposure to 30 million users.

Ripple has made its first move towards building decentralized finance products based on XRP. With its acquisition of decentralized payments platform Logos Network, Ripple's investment arm, Xpring, will add nine New York-based engineers.

After more than a year spent ensuring full compliance with the United States authorities, Bakkt, the first federally regulated platform for Bitcoin futures trading, launched on September 23.Conceived by the global trading giant Intercontinental Exchange and counting a solid portfolio of investors from Microsoft's venture fund M12 to Starbucks as its backers, Bakkt offers institutional traders something brand new.

Encrypted instant messaging service Telegram has revealed a wallet for its network's native token, Gram, available in the app's alpha version for iOS. As Telegram Info reported on Sept. 26, the Gram wallet is now active on the alpha version of Telegram on iOS, although currently the wallet operates in the Telegram Open Network testnet.

IVO Lab, the parent company behind RSK's bitcoin smart contract network, today announced its acquisition of Spanish-language social networking platform Taringa.

Chinese crypto mining hardware giant Bitmain will launch a platform connecting global crypto miners with farm owners in October.

The future will not bring competition between digital and non-digital currencies, but between monetary policies, according to Anthony Pompliano.

ASX-listed games maker Animoca Brands is to develop a MotoGP-branded race management game.

When Facebook published the Libra white paper in June 2019, shockwaves were felt across the crypto markets the world over.

The chief economist of Dutch multinational banking and financial services giant ING says that Facebook's plan to launch a digital currency has put pressure on central banks to launch their own.

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has broken its partnership with Bittrex in a reorganization of its Bitcoin, Ether and Tether markets, local South Korean news outlet Decenter reported on Sept. 25.

Dutch bank ING's chief economist has said "Fully fledged" digital currencies will developed by central banks in just two to three years.

Analysts have pointed out that Bitcoin's price rises and falls in line with settlement dates for CME Bitcoin futures contracts.

The biggest Ethereum contract in the industry, dubbed FairWin, is allegedly putting user funds at risk and continues to guzzle a major amount of gas on the network.

Bitcoin is on track to post its biggest weekly loss of 2019, having found acceptance below key support for the first time in nearly six months.

Many people have heard of blockchain technology, but few know what to make of it.

A South Korean court ruled on Sept. 25 that the CoinOne cryptocurrency exchange must reimburse 25 million won to an investor after he was hacked.

Harbor Square Investments, a subsidiary of tokenized securities platform Harbor, has received a broker-dealer license from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, company executives told CoinDesk on Friday.

The major flaw in Facebook's planned cryptocurrency, Libra, is that it's a closed system - akin to a "Walled garden."

Following the first phase of the Unblocked Cash program in Vanuatu, Oxfam is readying to launch the pilot program's second phase using the Dai stablecoin to distribute disaster relief.

The head of the Libra Association has argued that the Facebook-led cryptocurrency could be a boon to the U.N., according to Reuters.

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has launched a dedicated staking platform, according to a company announcement published on Sept. 26.

At a basic level, this relates to whether a blockchain network is capable of providing the same fast, high-quality experience to all of its users - irrespective of how many are online at any given time.

Bitcoin price stayed bounced back above $8,000 on Sept. 27, the day when over 50% of open interest in Bitcoin options is set to expire.

Binance, the top crypto exchange by trading volume, has said it helped British police bust a cybercriminal who sold phishing tools that resulted in the theft of millions of pounds.

Disrupting the Status Quo? What does this mean for the existing market for cryptocurrency options? Well, whereas players such as OKEx, BitMEX, Cryptofacilities, and Bitfinex have long been offering futures trading, the cryptocurrency options market is in a significantly more nascent stage of development.