The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The securities watchdog in the Canadian province of British Columbia has said that it has no remit to regulate troubled crypto exchange QuadrigaCX, which owes customers millions of dollars said to be frozen on an encrypted laptop.

View The immediate outlook for bitcoin will remain bearish while prices are held below the 6-hour chart 50-candle moving average, currently at $3,417.

South Korean-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has launched a global over-the-counter trading desk for digital assets.

A Bitcoin exchange-traded fund will most likely ultimately gain approval from the United States securities regulator, according to a commissioner.

A subsidiary of Swiss multinational investment bank Credit Suisse has completed a blockchain trial for fund transactions.

The Texas State Securities Board issued a total of 16 orders against suspected cryptocurrency scam investments in 2018, the regulator revealed in its 2018 Enforcement Report published on Feb. 7.

The latest code version for the lightning network - often trumpeted as the future of bitcoin payments - includes a "Block size increase."

Bitcoin entrepreneur and advocate Charlie Shrem will receive around $45,000 in legal costs from Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss as part of an ongoing lawsuit, according to an official document filed on Feb. 7.

Justin Sunerok, the founder and lead developer for Verge Currency, joined CryptoSlate for an interview yesterday.

Investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have been ordered to pay back $45,000 in legal fees incurred by entrepreneur Charlie Shrem as part of an ongoing lawsuit that alleges he failed to broker a series of promised cryptocurrency purchases on their behalf.

The $145 million in digital assets that are reportedly stuck in encrypted cold wallet storage of QuadrigaCX crypto exchange could actually be missing, according to analysts cited by the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 6.In December 2018, the founder of major Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX, Gerald Cotten, passed suddenly.

The daily Bitcoin transaction volume has been recently increasing to the levels not seen since January 2018, after BTC hit the $20,000 price mark, according to data from transactionfee.

Major global crypto exchange Huobi has reported a 100 percent growth in trading volume in 2018 over the 2017, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Feb. 7.The Singapore-headquartered company has reportedly expanded its staff from 400 employees in early 2018 to more than 1,300 people by 2019, with 15 offices in 12 countries and regions, as Huobi CEO Leon Li told Cointelegraph.

Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX is reportedly not regulated by the British Columbia Securities Commission, the province's financial regulator, Reuters reported on Feb. 7.Vancouver-based cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX was established in 2013 and is purportedly the first exchange in Canada to be licensed by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada.

The Ministry of Finance of the United Arab Emirates will discuss the development of blockchain and digital assets in the country's economy at the 7th World Government Summit.

Over 5.5 billion USD Coin tokens have been transferred on-chain as of Jan. 31 2019, according to a report released by the Centre consortium on Feb. 6.

As Cointelegraph reported in an analysis last year, a growing number of blockchain-based platforms have emerged with the promise of making the data related to digital ID more manageable.

Investing app Invstr has launched a cryptocurrency index for their platform, allowing users to follow cryptocurrency markets, according to a press release on Feb 6.

The world's largest crypto exchange Binance is considering a partnership with Ripple to use its cross-border payment platform xRapid, the company's CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed in a Periscope live stream on Feb. 6.

The Palestinian military-political group Hamas, which the U.S. government deems a terrorist organization, may be using the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange for fundraising.

At press time, Bitcoin is up a fraction of a percent on the day, trading at around $3,409, according to CoinMarketCap.

Ripple has announced the latest new partners in its global University Blockchain Research Initiative, which include universities in the United States, China, Singapore and Brazil.

Crypto exchange ErisX has appointed three veterans from Barclays, Youtube and the Chicago Board Options Exchange to fill executive roles at the company.

A TD Bank survey revealed that 90 percent of treasury and finance professionals think that blockchain and distributed ledger technology will positively affect the payments industry, according to a press release published on Feb. 6.

Someone is poorly impersonating the highly anticipated bitcoin futures trading platform Bakkt in an apparent attempt to bilk people out of their bitcoin.

Bitcoin trading volumes in Venezuela have reached a new all-time high amidst massive hyperinflation and an ongoing presidential crisis, tech news outlet TrustNodes reports Feb. 6.

Peer-to-peer torrent client BitTorrent has announced that its native token, BitTorrent Token, based on the TRON protocol, is now supported by CoinPayments' crypto payments gateway.

Ripple has partnered with another 10 top universities for its blockchain research program.

It is expected that the nodes of the new network will be able to verify transactions with a throughput increased by 99 percent compared to the Bitcoin blockchain and by 10 percent compared to Ethereum.

A new movement dubbed "GoxRising" is calling for a new, accelerated rehabilitation plan for creditors of the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, with the long-term goal of rebooting the trading platform.