The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Spain's central bank has issued a reminder to citizens warning of the risks involved in transacting unregulated cryptocurrencies.

Major Philippines bank Union Bank is launching the country's first two-way cryptocurrency ATM, local media outlet Philstar reported Feb. 6.

IBM and two other organizations will marry blockchain and IoT to help manage groundwater usage in an "At-risk" Californian aquifer.

A cross-market platform called LH-Crypto says its service gives traders the opportunity to transact across a plethora of cryptocurrencies and 200 other financial instruments - including forex on fiat currencies, precious metals, shares and commodities.

The Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration has suggested the use of blockchain for an open pilot scheme for the pharmaceuticals industry.

A dedicated section of the regulator's website now lists five aspects of ICOs the SEC considers essential, as well as a separate section for investors and market professionals.

View Bitcoin gained 7.8 percent on Friday, confirming a falling wedge breakout on the daily chart.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans to clarify when securities laws might apply to crypto token sales, an official said Friday.

Decentralized app MetaMask is facing fresh problems from cryptocurrency scammers after malware impersonating the tool appeared on Google Play, cybersecurity company Eset reported Feb. 8.

Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, estimates it will spend more than $20 million this year in building Bakkt, its bitcoin futures trading and custody platform.

Consider Abra's new product offering: a non-custodial wallet that uses the bitcoin blockchain to allow investors to get fractionalized exposure to the price movements of real-world capital market assets such as stocks, bonds and ETFs, all with as little as $5 down.

Daniel Cawrey is CEO of Pactum Capital, a crypto hedge fund, market maker and liquidity provider.

Venezuela's new crypto legislation, which establishes a legal framework for the industry, officially came into force at the end of January.

New York-based research company Fundstrat Global Advisors has released its 2019 crypto outlook on Friday, Feb. 8.

Overall, stablecoins attracted a lot of institutional capital throughout 2018 because of their immunity toward volatility, one of conventional institutions' main fears regarding the crypto market.

Tron and Binance Coin are two of the major cryptocurrencies that leaped ahead while Bitcoin continued to languish in a tight range.

Sunday, Feb. 10 - while Bitcoin is managing to stay above the $3,600 price point for the third day in a row, other major cryptocurrencies are mostly in the red as the markets gradually roll back after short recovery, Coin360 data shows.

Moshe Hogeg, the Israeli entrepreneur behind blockchain firm Stox, has denied misappropriating investors' funds in a response to the lawsuit filed against him.

A commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday, Feb. 8, that the delay in establishing crypto regulation may allow more freedom for the industry to move on its own.

As part of the closing statements in an open announcement to the NEM community, the NEM Secretarial Office, which represents the voice of the NEM Foundation's executive committee and council, said in "One final message for all" that the NEM Foundation community members knew before "Is gone."

The first thing to know about the BitTorrent Token airdrop is that it's not just a one-off event.

The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a newsletter for the institutional market, with news and views on crypto infrastructure delivered every Tuesday.

The CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange expects the firm's digital asset platform Bakkt to launch later in 2019.

Saturday, Feb. 9 - as Coin360 data shows, major cryptocurrencies are facing a mix of mild gains and losses, following a major market surge since yesterday.

Bakkt, the much-anticipated digital assets platform operated by the Intercontinental Exchange, has closed its first acquisition, a tweet from the company revealed Feb. 8.

Notably, there are just six crypto and blockchain companies featured this year, while the 2018 list contained 11 players from the field.

Dash CEO, Ryan Taylor, says a few factors saw them enter the Venezuelan market three years ago, but the political situation has made their cryptocurrency a critical survival tool for many in the beleaguered country.

Argentinian state public transport card SUBE can now be topped up using Bitcoin, Cointelegraph in Spanish reported Friday, Feb. 8.

If understanding how distributed ledger tech works inside banks is complex, finding ways to make different varieties of enterprise blockchains talk to each other is a doozy of a challenge.

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