The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The COO of institutional trading platform Bakkt appears unsure about its futures market predicting the impact of the 2020 Bitcoin halving event.

Bitcoin's network hash rate dipped a record 40% yesterday, Sept. 23, in a sudden shock for the network.

The head of Japan's central bank has called for international cooperation in regulating stablecoins like the Facebook-led Libra.

China has no specific launch date in mind for its digital currency, its central bank has said in fresh comments contradicting previous statements.

EOSIO successfully implemented its first ever consensus hard fork in its v1.8 upgrade.

Cryptocurrency holdings are neither cash nor financial assets, but meet the definition of an intangible asset, at least according to an influential global accounting standards body.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Jonathan C. Lucas, the founder of adult entertainment marketplace Fantasy Market, with orchestrating a fraudulent initial coin offering.

Kik CEO Ted Livingston appears to be close to quitting the social messaging startup he founded in 2009 following news Monday that the app is shutting down.

The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission charged Jonathan Lucas, 27, the CEO of online adult entertainment marketplace, with running a fraudulent initial coin offering scheme.

Decentralized artificial intelligence firm SingularityNET and tech conglomerate Cisco have partnered to develop applied artificial general intelligence technologies.

Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt platform has traded 71 Bitcoin futures contracts in the first 24 hours following its launch on Sept. 22.According to ICE historical data on Bakkt's Bitcoin/USD futures contract trading, the platform has traded 71 BTC at press time, with the last recorded trading price settling at $9,875 per Bitcoin.

Following reports of Kik Interactive subsidiary Kin laying off 70 employess, Kik Interactive CEO Ted Livingstone announced today that Kik will also be shutting down.

The Canadian social media and messaging app company Kik is reportedly considering shutting down its popular Kik messaging app.70 reported layoffs at Kin subsidiary In a Sept. 23 article, Israeli tech publication CTech Calcalistit cites two anonymous sources at Kik, claiming that the Canada-based firm is considering closing down its messaging app.70 employees have reportedly received layoff notices and have been given the option to transfer to a new company that operates in the same sector.

After two years of work and more than a year of hype and regulatory delays, the Bakkt bitcoin futures market had a lackluster first day of trading.

The United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority is proposing to ban cryptocurrency Exchange Traded Notes, but Coinshares, a U.K.-based regulated public exchange, disagrees with that proposal.

ConsenSys-backed identity management protocol uPort has entered a partnership with Onfido and PwC to develop blockchain-based identity management in the financial services sector in the United Kingdom.

Canadian startup Paycase Global Corp. is suing TMX Group, for breach of contract after the operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange terminated their deal to create cryptocurrency-related products and services.

Switzerland's principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, has postponed the launch of its "Fully-regulated" cryptocurrency exchange SIX Digital Exchange.

The current candlestick appears to be moving below the 150-three-day moving average.

As of today, the newly launched Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange is available to select users in Germany.

Monday, Sept. 23 - Major cryptocurrency markets are reporting mixed signals today, with Bitcoin being slightly bearish following the launch of Bakkt's physically delivered Bitcoin futures.

If Bitcoin prices plunge and start a down move, altcoins are unlikely to run in the opposite direction to start a new uptrend.

Investment platform CoinShares is urging its customers to lobby the UK's Financial Conduct Authority over impending cryptoasset regulations.

Exchange Boerse Stuttgart, Germany's second-largest stock exchange, has opened a regulated trading venue for digital assets, the company said.

Naspers, the largest shareholder of Chinese Internet giant Tencent, participated in a $15 million investment in blockchain game developer Immutable.

EOS, the seventh-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, performed its first hard fork earlier today.

IBM is willing to team up with Facebook to develop blockchain technology, an IBM executive said, explaining that developing the blockchain ecosystem is "a team sport."

American e-commerce giant Overstock.com has appointed Jonathan Johnson as the company's new chief executive officer, according to an announcement on Sept. 23.

US, the United States-based arm of major crypto exchange Binance, will start trading on Sept. 24, offering zero trading fees until Nov. 1, 2019.13 trading pairs.

Electronics giant Samsung filed for a patent in May 2019 titled, "Programmable Blockchain Solid State Drive and Switch." Even though few details are known about the newly designed system, a surge in patent applications filed by large corporations on blockchain is clearly visible.