The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission, a primary governmental regulator, has settled charges with digital assets company Bitqyck Inc. and its founders.

McAfee Labs has released its August 2019 threats report, concluding that crypto-jacking is on the rise.

Major phone operator China Telecom has released a white paper on blockchain-powered smartphones in the 5G Era.

Stablecoins with a clear governance framework may be hampered by the uncertainty of the lack of regulation, according to the European Central Bank.Four major types of stablecoins outlined.

After losing the Kleiman case, Craig Wright could face another major lawsuit.

That's the new mission statement for decentralized finance platform Dharma as described by Brendan Forster, co-founder and COO of Dharma Labs, which built the Dharma protocol.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled charges with crypto exchange Bitqyck and its founders, alleging that they committed fraud with two different token sales.

Blockchain software development firm Parity released an update for its Ethereum node software which fixes a vulnerability present in some instances.

Hyperledger has officially adopted its first public blockchain project in the form of ConsenSys' Pantheon.

SBI Holdings, the investment arm of Japanese financial giant SBI Group, will pay out dividends in the third largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, XRP. According to a company statement released Wednesday, SBI shareholders will receive 30 XRP for ever 100 shares they own, as part of an intermediary shareholder benefit program.

Major global crypto exchange Binance has introduced its new developer-focused project, called Binance X. The exchange launched Binance X on Aug. 29, aiming to provide blockchain developers with all necessary resources to drive new solutions on Binance's projects, as well as in the whole blockchain ecosystem, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph.

Telegram Open Network, or TON, the ambitious blockchain project announced last year by the Telegram messaging app, is expected to release the code needed to run a TON node on Sept. 1, according to two individuals familiar with the project.

Neil Wals, chief of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Cybercrime Program, warned that cryptocurrencies have made combating money laundering significantly harder.

Wemade Tree, a subsidiary of the game company behind the Legend of Mir series, has signed an agreement with Linka, a local blockchain payments provider.

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, an organization that aims to establish standards in the blockchain sector, has published a collection of use cases for blockchain in telecommunications.

Portugal's Tax Authority has clarified that both cryptocurrency trading and payments in crypto will not be taxed in the country, Cointelegraph Spain reported on Aug. 27.

A young Caribbean-based company is offering foreign investors a chance to buy $75 million worth of tokenized real-estate assets.

Hedera Hashgraph, a blockchain-like public network for enterprises, is adding a U.S. financial giant to its governing council.

Antonopoulos, Osuntokun, and Pickhardt announced their new book, "Mastering Lightning Network," in a YouTube video published on Aug. 28.

The organizer of a Bitcoin programming boot camp has published a proof-of-concept for a user interface for multisignature protection for both hardware wallets and full nodes.

Bitcoin price fell below $9,500 on Aug. 29 as the largest cryptocurrency's sudden bearish move continued to bite.

The individual accused of perpetrating a massive-scale hack of credit card issuer Capital One also allegedly hacked cloud customers' servers to mine cryptocurrency for herself.

The Global Times claims that China's central bank has refuted recent reports of its plans to launch a state-backed cryptocurrency this November.

View Bitcoin risks falling to $9,000 in the next 24 hours, having dived out of a narrowing price range on Wednesday.

After months of anticipation, messaging app Telegram is inching closer to launching its Gram token.

PNC - the United States' eighth-largest bank, with almost $400 billion in assets - has become the country's first to start using the RippleNet blockchain network for cross-border payments.

Bitcoin has shown it is not a safe haven asset, gold bug Peter Schiff has said after the largest cryptocurrency dropped 7% in daily trading.

On Aug. 19, the standoff between Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin took a new twist, as one of the industry's most controversial Twitter accounts - with nearly a million followers - changed its views overnight.

Bitcoin price may have fallen below $10,000 again but that is no reason to doubt the 2019 bull market, industry investor Mike Novogratz has said.

Unlike existing Bitcoin futures contracts from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which are only settled in cash, this will be the first physical Bitcoin-settled futures on the market.