The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

As ABN AMRO drops its exploration of a cryptocurrency wallet product, the Dutch bank says it's seeking to launch a blockchain platform for trade inventory.

Despite Japan's reputation for being one of the most welcoming nations for fintech, online crypto gambling has struggled to take off in light of the country's strict regulation.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has argued that the biggest banks have a strong reason to embrace crypto and blockchain innovation, despite the apparent threat it poses to their current oligopoly.

Calastone, a transactions network for the mutual funds industry, has moved to its own blockchain-based settlement system, the firm announced Monday.

A senior executive from American delivery services company FedEx is unconvinced about the benefits of blockchain technology in its present form, Memphis-based local news outlet Commercial Appeal reported on May 20.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has expanded its Earn program to 103 countries.

SprinkleXchange, a blockchain-powered initial public offering platform, is preparing to list its first company in June, Bloomberg reported on May 17.

Monday, May 20 - most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate losses on the day by press time, as bitcoin has fallen below the $7.900 mark again.

About 200 to 300 people, ranging from chief compliance officers of top exchanges to regional bitcoin brokers, attended FATF's consultative meeting in Vienna, Austria, on May 6-7 to voice their concerns.

Dutch bank ABN AMRO abandoned its plans to launch a custodial bitcoin wallet dubbed "Wallie" because of risk concerns, according to a report published on May 20 by tech news outlet The Next Web.

Centralized cryptocurrency exchanges saw a major uptick in traded volume this April, the new April 2019 Exchange Review from crypto data provider Cryptocompare has revealed on May 20.

Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder Tom Lee has claimed that the crypto winter is over in a tweet on May 19.

View Bitcoin has recorded double-digit gains for three consecutive weeks, a feat last seen during the height of the bull market in 2017.

Leading United States crypto exchange and wallet provider Coinbase launched its custody services for institutional investors in July 2018.

Strategists from United States banking giant JPMorgan Chase have argued that bitcoin's recent rally has ostensibly soared past what they calculate to be its intrinsic value.

SprinkleXchange, a stock exchange built on ethereum, is reportedly listing its first company next month.

The European Central Bank has said that cryptocurrencies are currently not a threat to financial stability in the euro zone.

Arthur Hayes, the CEO of BitMEX, the most widely utilized margin trading platform for crypto assets such as bitcoin and Ethereum, has said that the bitcoin bull market is real.

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A vote about whether to decrease the so-called stability fee for MakerDAO's ethereum blockchain-based decentralized stablecoin DAI has started.

Ted Livingston, the CEO of Canadian-based messaging startup Kik, told cryptocurrency news outlet Coindesk that the company spent over $5 million on ongoing negotiations with the United States Securities Exchange Commission.

Sunday, May 19 - most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are rebounding to report moderate to notable gains on the day by press time.

This time, Microsoft presented a vast blockchain-related plan: a decentralized identity network built atop of the bitcoin network, which can potentially empower users all over the internet to take control over their personal data and content.

If building decentralized financial applications was the motto topic of Ethereal, the ethereum hackathon ETH New York was all about discussing the social impact of such applications.

Figures published by bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr show that more than half of the full nodes in the bitcoin network are still running client software vulnerable to the inflation bug discovered in September 2018.This revelation poses some danger to the network, as software vulnerabilities are a clear and present danger to the fidelity of bitcoin.

As bitcoin initiated a powerful recovery to $8,000 over the weekend, the interest towards the dominant crypto asset on Google Trends spiked to April 2018 levels, demonstrating a noticeable increase in demand from retail or individual investors.

After the strong recovery of the past few weeks, this week saw some profit booking at the highs.

Interestingly, the word "Blockchain" doesn't actually appear in the original bitcoin white paper, released back in 2008.

The beloved "Bitcoin Pizza Guy," Laszlo Hanyecz, will be featured in the next airing of 60 Minutes where he will explain how he spent almost $800 million on pizza.

To further the breakthrough of digital technologies and make them the backbone of society, Vienna called into existence the so-called "Smart City Vienna" initiative in 2014, which aims to better the lives of its general population.