The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

A new encryption-as-a-service company raised $3 million to bring standardized encryption techniques to the blockchain.

Global messaging app Telegram announced a coding competition for building smart contracts for the Telegram Open Network Blockchain.

Just a few months ago in July 2019, the United States Internal Revenue Service sent approximately 10,000 letters to cryptocurrency holders regarding their crypto holdings.

Bittrex, the U.S. crypto exchange, has adopted blockchain compliance firm Chainalysis' real-time monitoring software for transactions to flag suspicious activity across many of its leading coins, Bittrex executives told CoinDesk.

Blockchain-based identity firm Evernym has received a $2 million investment from Overstock subsidiary Medici Ventures, according to a release from the company.

According to a report published on Sept. 26, executive vice-president for global media at Unilever Luis Di Como told advertisement news outlet Campaign that using blockchain has helped the company save money.

Having trumped up the risks of unregulated cryptocurrencies earlier this year, Dutch bank ABN Amro NV finds itself in the midst of a major money-laundering scandal.

Subsequent to the near 20 percent pullback in the bitcoin price, trader Nick Cote said that bears won the short term fight with more room for a deeper correction in the cryptocurrency market.

Peter Wuffli, the former CEO of Switzerland's largest bank UBS and director at Swiss crypto bank Sygnum, wants to tap the "$220 billion market of institutions and private individuals who already own cryptocurrencies.

Flexa, a startup making it easier to use crypto for purchases in the real world, will be an advisory participant in a new demonstration store at America's largest mall, which is located outside Minneapolis, Minn. The store, meant to showcase new brands and technologies for enhancing the retail experience, is being organized by management consulting firm McKinsey.

Bitcoin is defending the key 200-day moving average support for the third consecutive day and may see a minor bounce to $8,700.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced that New York residents now have access to two cryptocurrencies launched for other jurisdictions months ago.

Bitcoin lingered around $8,400 on Sept. 26 as relative stability returned to markets after their tumultuous fall earlier in the week.

The CEO and founder of Canadian social media and messaging app Kik has vowed to fight U.S. regulators over the future of the native Kin cryptocurrency "No matter how hard it is."

A new crypto-friendly bank with a historic pedigree is about to take on its first clients.

Bitcoin experienced its worst plunge since January 2018, dropping as much as 18 percent on Sept. 24.

Tron founder and CEO, Justin Sun, says he'll reschedule his charity lunch with Berkshire Hathaway chairman and billionaire Warren Buffett "Very soon."

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has refused to commit to the planned 2020 launch for the Libra cryptocurrency project.

Wyoming Blockchain Coalition president Caitlin Long has responded to the recent unrest in the money markets by analyzing the systemic fragility of the traditional financial sector as compared with Bitcoin.

Major United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase that it made Stellar's Lumens trading available also to those users who reside in New York.

Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov says there's one big thing holding back corporate adoption of blockchain technology: reliable oracle services that connect blockchain systems to real-world events, and vice versa.

New research this week has added to suspicions that futures settlement dates end up manipulating the Bitcoin price.

Facebook is taking a much more careful approach to Libra than its previous projects, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed.

Facebook's Libra could potentially solve some of the problems in the international payments market, but it might create a number of others that will require creative thinking by the regulators, says an European central banker.

Neo, a decentralized open source blockchain application platform, announced that it became the first-ever blockchain member of Microsoft's.

A new Ethash ASIC. Today at the New Era Mining Summit in China, Canaan unveiled a new Ethereum Ethash ASIC. The ASIC would easily outcompete GPU-based miners on an efficiency basis.

Cybersecurity firm Emsisoft has released a solution for Bitcoin-demanding ransomware WannaCryFake.

Ex-United States Federal Reserve official Simon Potter stated that the plan to end the U.S. dollar's dominance by replacing it with a digital currency makes no sense.

The recent Ether price drop showed the reliability and weaknesses of the decentralized stablecoin built by MakerDAO, Dai, and the decentralized finance ecosystem built on top of it.

One is opening its fourth global site located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.