The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson once believed that Ethereum would surpass the market capitalization of Bitcoin.

Four out of the first five results presented when querying Google for a "Bitcoin qr generator" lead to scam websites.

The U.S. Department of Energy, is granting nearly $200,000 to blockchain company Factom to help protect the national power grid.

U.S.-based crypto exchange Poloniex took to Twitter today to announce the upgrade of its XRP wallets, which will result in withdrawals and deposits being suspended for several hours.

Open source blockchain platform Waves and blockchain game distribution platform The Abyss will jointly launch a blockchain-based marketplace of digital goods and in-game items.

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin will now offer fiat-to-token and token-to-token trading services to residents of seven more US states.

Following investment from Coinbase Ventures, Offchain Labs has opened up the Alpha version of its Ethereum scaling solution, dubbed Arbitrum.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss' Gemini crypto exchange just added off-chain and over the counter trade negotiations on its platform.

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance plans to launch a token airdrop as part of the company's acquisition of JEX, a crypto-asset trading platform.

Mark Mobius, major investor and founding partner of Mobius Capital Partners, is still bearish on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology with some caveats.

Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, decided to let Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of the United States, face-off against Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in an epic crypto-rap-battle video.

The global peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace, Paxful, and Medellin-based blockchain company, CoinLogiq, are joining forces to bring 20 new crypto ATMs to Colombia and, later, 25 to Peru.Colombians will have access to 20 new ATMsIn a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Sept. 5, Paxful announced that it is joining forces with CoinLogiq to bring 20 new ATMs to several points of interest to the main Colombian cities such as Bogota and Medellín.

Security software provider Kaspersky has identified a form of cryptomining malware that has taken root in multiple sites where pirated textbooks are upload and downloaded.

Thursday, Sept. 5 - after failing to break $10,800 price point, Bitcoin continued to hover around $10,500, while most of the top 20 coins saw major losses.

The cryptocurrency insurance market is expected to grow at a faster rate if United States regulators provide more regulatory clarity, according to industry experts.

Securities and cryptocurrency exchange Hyperion Technologies acquired two products developed by blockchain consulting firm Vanbex Labs, which is currently under investigation in British Columbia.

Facebook's WhatsApp is looking to hire a blockchain regulation expert in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Stablecoin operator Paxos launched PAX Gold, a gold-backed Ethereum token.

The Winklevoss brothers-led Gemini crypto exchange has introduced its new clearing and settlement product Gemini Clearing.

Famous emerging markets investor Mark Mobius believes that Bitcoin needs to be backed by gold to have any value.

Vanbex, a Canadian blockchain company mired in a criminal investigation and several lawsuits, has sold its intellectual property to Toronto-based crypto brokerage Hyperion for an undisclosed price.

Trading Ether is rarely easy, particularly when bad news surrounding one of the most popular cryptocurrencies isn't offering any reprieve for enthusiasts.

Binance, the biggest crypto exchange by volume, and digital asset trust company Paxos announced its partnership to launch a USD-backed stablecoin, which has received approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services.

We interviewed Gabriel Anderson, the Managing Director of Tachyon, an accelerator for startups utilizing blockchain and web 3.0 technologies, funded by ConsenSys.

Crypto exchange Binance is launching a dollar-backed stablecoin in the U.S. Moreover, the new Binance USD has received the blessing of the New York Department of Financial Services.

Many bitcoiners are former gold bugs who believe in "Hard money," so one crypto company is hoping digitized gold will attract more traders.

A venture arm of major global crypto exchange Binance has led a $5.7 million funding round to launch new decentralized blockchain protocol, the FIO Protocol.

A partnership between two cryptocurrency firms could bring 20 new bitcoin ATMs to cities around Colombia.

Denver-based startup Dapix Inc. has raised $5.7 million in a Series A funding round led by Binance Labs, the company announced Thursday.

Factom, one of the earliest companies to pitch blockchains to enterprises, is participating in a U.S. government-funded trial of the technology to protect the national power grid.