The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

On numerous occasions, the first rally from the lows can reach overbought levels but this is not similar to the overbought levels as seen following an extended uptrend.

Kraken, a popular cryptocurrency exchange based in the US, is facing a lawsuit from a former employee, Jonathan Silverman.

Bitcoin wallet service Electrum is facing an ongoing Denial-of-Service attack on its servers, the company reported on Twitter on April 7.

The World Economic Forum released a report about blockchain cybersecurity on April 5.

The United States-based startup Sparkswap has completed a successful seed funding round to create a decentralized exchange based on the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

Opportunities to earn interest on your crypto are increasing, and Dharma is the latest to enter the fray.

The Republic of Lithuania's Ministry of Finance plans to release legal amendments for operating crypto-related businesses in the country, Riga-based newspaper The Baltic Times reports on April 8.

Money transfer giant Western Union has teamed up with blockchain startup Coins.

Blockchain-based decentralized application platform Tron has revealed the expansion plan of its second layer scalability solution, the Sun Network.

Private bank Kleinwort Hambros launched an exchange-traded note made up of blockchain-related companies, financial news outlet Finextra reported on April 8.

Ontology and Bitcoin Cash are seeing the biggest losses out of the top 20 coins, down 7.6 and 6.4 percent over the past 24 hours at press time, according to CoinMarketCap.

A San Francisco-based decentralized exchange called Sparkswap launched Monday, becoming the first North American exchange to fully integrate the lightning network, a bitcoin scaling solution.

The average number of Bitcoin transactions per block reached an all-time high of over 2,700 transactions on Mar. 29.

Global consulting company Accenture has patented two solutions focused on blockchain interoperability, according to the data published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on April 2.

Kleinwort Hambros, a Societe Generale-owned private bank and wealth manager, has launched an actively managed exchange-traded note targeting the blockchain sector.

Individuals behind a cryptocurrency scam in South Korea have cheated around 56,000 investors out of $18.5 million, police say.

Multinational computing giant IBM is adding to its arsenal of blockchain patents with a new implementation to manage data and interactions for self-driving vehicles.

Bitcoin's price surge last week has led Chinese traders not only return to trading but pay a premium for doing so, social media-based news account cnLedger reported on April 7.

The patent, originally filed on Dec. 22, 2015, describes a system providing identity services capable of receiving an identity from an identity provider system alongside validated identity data, and then storing it on a blockchain in an identity token.

View Solid gains over the weekend saw bitcoin's price rise $200/4.

Estonia-based crypto firm Paxful Inc. has been accused of defrauding thousands of Nigerian investors out of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies through allegedly arbitrary account closures.

Car giants General Motors and BMW are backing blockchain tech as a way to share self-driving car data among themselves and other automakers.

United States bank holding corporation Capital One has won its latest blockchain-related patent, this time incorporating the technology in a content validation system.

A cross-party group of South Korean lawmakers have reportedly called on the government to ease regulation of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.

Ripple co-founder and executive chairman Chris Larsen, his wife Lyna Lam and nonprofit foundation Rippleworks have donated $25 million in XRP cryptocurrency to San Francisco State University.

South Korean police have arrested suspects behind a cryptocurrency ponzi scheme using artificial intelligence, local English-language news outlet Korea Joongang Daily reported on April 8.

A former employee at United States-based crypto exchange Kraken is suing the firm for over $900,000, claiming the exchange failed to pay him for his work there.

Coinme's recent partnership with Coinstar has the potential to bring about the "Mass adoption of bitcoin." BTC is now available within 5 miles of 90 percent of Americans, via cash-enabled kiosk.

The combined value of the cryptocurrency market rose to $185.89 billion earlier today, its highest level since Nov. 18.

Unless even more time is requested by the UK, and unanimously granted by all 27 member states of the EU, the default option is for the UK to chaotically crash out from the European trade bloc, by leaving without a legal agreement, on Friday April 12th. As laws have borders, this lack of 'legal certainty' is particularly troubling as it risks disrupting cross-border supply chain networks which would be bad news for everyone.