The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has received nearly three times more law enforcement inquiries in 2018 than in 2017, the exhange reported in a tweet Jan. 5.

Bakkt also noted in their announcement that they are working with U.S. regulators to obtain approval for their physically delivered and warehoused Bitcoin.

The long-planned Ethereum fork is coming on Jan. 16th. With Constantinople going live within weeks, here's what is important to know.

Sunday, Jan. 6 - most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are seeing a mix of moderate gains and losses on the day to press time.

An alleged fake news website released a crypto-related article employing the image of former New Zealand prime minister John Key, local media outlet Stuff reported Jan. 5.

Major U.S. furniture retailer Overstock announced that it will pay taxes in bitcoin for the Ohio-based portion of its business under the state's novel taxpayer platform, Ohiocrypto.com.

One year ago, I wrote an article for CoinDesk in which I humbly argued that the price of ether didn't matter and what everyone in the blockchain community should focus on is building useful applications instead. Hate to say I told you so, but I did.

In particular, in markets like China and Korea where cryptocurrencies have gained greater acceptance, retail investors continue to take part in initial investments for blockchain projects through a variety of methods.

Ethereum, TRON, and Iota have outperformed most other major cryptocurrencies by the 30-day Sharpe ratio, a measure developed by Nobel laureate William F. Sharpe to evaluate the return of an investment relative to its risk.

A balance of the general trend of the ICO market during 2018 is double-edged.

The personal Coinbase merchant account of Andrew Torba, social media platform Gab's founder, has been terminated, the official Gab.com account tweeted on Jan. 4.

Saturday, Jan. 5 - the crypto markets are mainly in the green today, as Bitcoin moves closer to the $3,900 mark, data from Coin360 shows.

Organized by crypto investor and podcast host Trace Mayer, it urged cryptocurrency traders to withdraw their holdings from crypto exchanges, in order to promote the decentralization and monetary independence on which Satoshi Nakamoto's vision for Bitcoin was founded.

The Europe-based company LockTrip wants to put the accommodation industry on the blockchain by creating "The first functional blockchain-based travel service." The team says it already offers 100,000 hotels and more than 1,500 vacation rentals all over the world, with an average discount of almost 20 percent when compared to other booking sites - and with plans to add an additional 300,000 hotels and 900 airlines to its marketplace by end of January 2019.Smart contract travel booking.

Major financial consulting company McKinsey & Company believes that there is little evidence of practical use for blockchain, according to an official post published on Jan. 4.

Five more cryptocurrency exchanges have joined the Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association, according to an official announcement on Jan. 4 from the JVCEA. The JVCEA is a self-regulatory body formed in April by 16 registered crypto exchanges that aims to create industry-wide investor safety standards.

This is where the third major trend of 2018 comes in: thecorrection of the blockchain hype cycle.

Nistor Vlad C?lin, the founder of Romanian crypto exchange Coinflux, will be extradited to the United States, local media company Mediafax reports Jan. 4.

Such is the state of the blockchain promise today: It's a powerful tool, but probably not for what you think.

In September 2017 - a period of surging cryptocurrency prices and publicity - the Lynx Art Collection began offering crypto-themed artworks with litecoin, monero, ether, and bitcoin payment options.

The Financial Stability Board, a global inter-governmental body with over 20 member countries, has ruled that virtual currencies are not a threat to the world economy.

The Gemini cryptocurrency exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins in 2014 is calling for better regulation of the crypto space in a new ad campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports on Jan. 4.Placards on taxis and in the New York City subway contain slogans like "Crypto needs rules" while simultaneously suggesting that Gemini already provides a regulatory compliant exchange for investors.

The Texas Department of Banking could consider stablecoins as money, making them and exchanges that deal with them subject to a number of Texas laws and license requirements, according to a Supervisory Memorandum published on Jan. 2.

Cardano was the most actively developed coin in 2018 by GitHub commits.

Blockchain software company ConsenSys, semiconductor producer AMD, and Abu-Dhabi-based investment management firm Halo Holdings are jointly working on a blockchain-based cloud computing infrastructure.

Stablecoins may qualify as "Money" under Texas law, according to updated guidance from the state Department of Banking.

The GTI Vera Convergence Divergence indicator points to higher levels for Bitcoin if the buying pressure continues.

Ethereum core developers have reached a tentative consensus to implement a new proof-of-work algorithm that would increase the efficiency of GPU-based - as opposed to ASIC-based - mining on the network.

Medici Ventures, the blockchain investment arm of Overstock, is reassigning a top executive to focus on revenue generation at its most prominent portfolio company, tZERO. Steven Hopkins, the chief operating officer of Medici, planned to resign from that job to become chief revenue officer at tZERO, a regulated exchange for security tokens, according to a December 28 Securities and Exchange filing by Overstock.

Leading cryptocurrency exchanges OKEx and Huobi Global will support the Ethereum Constantinople hard fork which is estimated to happen between Jan. 14 and 18, according to a press release shared with Cointelegraph.