The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The Federal Court of Australia has imposed a travel ban and frozen the funds of John Bigatton, a promoter of reported $2.6 billion Ponzi scheme Bitconnect, daily newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald reports on Jan. 5.

Japan's financial regulator is reportedly looking to close a legal loophole that lets unregistered investment firms solicit funds in cryptocurrencies rather than cash.

A deep reorganization of the Ethereum Classic blockchain, which reportedly included double spending, has involved more than $1.1 million worth of crypto, United States crypto exchange Coinbase revealed Monday, Jan. 7.

Japanese IT giant GMO Internet Group has published the latest monthly disclosure on its in-house crypto mining operations, confirming that it took a steep hit in overall mining revenue.

Shenzhen-based miner manufacturer Linzhi has published a statement in response to a "Tentative" decision, made by ethereum developers Friday, to block specialized hardware, or ASICs, from securing the platform in exchange for rewards.

Chinese Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer Canaan Creative is considering a new initial public offering in New York, Bloomberg reported on Jan. 8, quoting anonymous sources.

China-based Canaan, one of the biggest manufacturers of bitcoin mining chips and devices, is reportedly considering an initial public offering in the U.S. A Bloomberg report on Tuesday, citing people with "Knowledge of the matter," said that Canaan's IPO could be launched in the first half of this year in New York, although the process is still in its early stages.

A new report published on Jan. 8 by the Bank for International Settlements has found that seventy percent of central banks worldwide are conducting research into central bank digital currency issuance.

Some want the prerogative to issue this currency assigned to them and only them, because central banks 'enjoy the confidence' of the public.

Bitcoin's minor pullback from two-week highs could end up fueling a breakout above the key hurdle of $4,140.

The Ethereum Foundation has announced a $5 million grant to United Kingdom-based company Parity Technologies, according to a post on the official Ethereum blog published Jan. 7.

The Ethereum Foundation has just awarded a $5 million grant to Parity Technologies to support the firm's work building the blockchain network's next iteration, ethereum 2.0.

Bitcoin wallet provider Samourai Wallet said it was disabling several privacy-related features in its products due to notices from Google to block the wallet, according to a Jan. 7.

Israel's economics "Tsar" Avi Simhon has denounced Bitcoin as intrinsically inefficient, predicting that the cryptocurrency will therefore disappear.

Jair Bolsonaro, the new Brazilian president who has officially taken office a week ago, has criticized a project offering to create a cryptocurrency for indigenous people in a Jan. 7 tweet.

Japan's Financial Services Agency is considering the regulation of unregistered firms that solicit investments in cryptocurrencies, Cointelegraph Japan reports on Jan. 8.

Telecommunications giant China Mobile is trying to show everyday consumers the value of blockchain by incorporating the technology into an ordinary household product.

The embattled leader of Malta's opposition Adrian Delia has faced a fresh backlash over his criticism of the government's pro-cryptocurrency stance.

Bitcoin can potentially have a high value or be worth nothing, noted Wall Street investor Bill Miller told CNBC in an interview on Monday, Jan. 7.

Cryptocurrency venture capitalist Chris Burniske believes the masses have "Entirely forgotten" about digital assets, with his comments coming on the back of a prolonged bear market.

CoinfloorEX, a bitcoin futures market, has been spun off from its parent company Coinfloor Group and will relaunch next month, offering a novel derivative product: stablecoin-to-stablecoin futures.

"I think we will come back a few years from now and say how could we ever have gotten into this situation where we believed this kind of a fairy-tale story."

Since Sept. 2018, the price chart of the world's second largest cryptocurrency has mimicked the market structure of bitcoin's bear market bottom in 2015.

Ethereum Classic experienced a vicious 51 percent attack that allowed attackers to conduct eleven deep chain reorganizations and double-spend 88,500 ETC, worth over $400,000.

Cameron Winklevoss stated that "Bitcoin [BTC] is most likely the winner in the long term" during an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit today, Jan. 7.Answering a question about whether or not Bitcoin will keep its number one position among cryptocurrencies, Cameron expressed his optimistic view of the coin, saying that "Bitcoin is certainly the OG crypto! It's hard to defeat network effects - so in terms of 'hard money' Bitcoin is most likely the winner in the long term."

While the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange currently offer Bitcoin futures trading, both of their products are settled in cash.

E-commerce giant Overstock.com's cryptocurrency subsidiary tZERO has filed a patent for a "Crypto integration platform" for trading digital assets.

U.K.-based exchange CoinFLEX plans on offering physically delivered bitcoin futures that can be leveraged up to 20 times, a move that will make them a major competitor to giants such as the New York Stock Exchange and Eris Exchange.

The price of ethereum classic is pulling back as a result of a recently reported attack that resulted in a series of blockchain history rewrites.

American libertarian political commentator Dave Rubin has announced he is turning to Bitcoin in lieu of the crowdfunding platform Patreon, in protest against the latter's alleged censorship practices.