The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

The precedent that will likely shape the body of U.S. case law on fraudulent initial coin offerings is currently being forged in a federal court in the New York borough of Brooklyn, where a 39-year old entrepreneur, Maksim Zaslavskiy, has pleaded guilty to committing securities fraud.

"Bitcoin SV is the original Bitcoin not the original Bitcoin Cash.".

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a two-day blockchain workshop in February, according to an official request for information posted Nov. 19.DARPA, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, is looking to to investigate technologies for distributed consensus during a workshop "Tentatively scheduled for February 14 and 15, 2019, in Arlington, VA.".

Richard Stallman, the fervently committed founder of the free software movement, is discussing the term "Libertarian," when he stops talking abruptly and says, "Hello?".

Last week the SEC reached settlements with AirFox and Paragon in its first cases brought purely for lack of registration, rather than for fraudulent activity.

A new partnership between Luxembourg-based VNX Exchange and the University of Luxembourg aims to improve the security of digital assets, business news outlet Luxembourg Times reported Nov. 23.VNX is a marketplace and trading platform for tokenized venture capital founded in 2017.

Bitcoin Cash services for cryptocurrency hardware wallet Ledger have resumed, according to an announcement published Nov. 23.Ledger suspended its BCH service on Nov. 14 in anticipation of the cryptocurrency's hard fork "To prevent unwanted transactions and potential replay attacks." During the service pause it was not possible to send BCH through the wallet's infrastructure.

Michael Moro, the CEO of cryptocurrency trading companies Genesis Trading and Genesis Capital Trading, said that the Bitcoin price could bottom at $3,000 in an interview with CNBC Nov. 23.Speaking on CNBC's "Squawk Box," Moro suggested that the leading cryptocurrency will lose another 30 percent before bottoming at $3,000.

Multisectoral blockchain company Bitfury has partnered with the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics to create an accelerator for blockchain projects, Russian crypto news outlet Forklog reports Nov. 21.In addition to supporting the development of blockchain projects, the university will provide courses and additional education dedicated to "Training specialists who are able to create innovative projects using digital technologies in a short time." This will enable specialists to "Bring to market amid the new industrial revolution," Dmitry Ufaev, the head of Bitfury Russia, told Forklog.

Especially after the latest Bitcoin nosedive prompted investors to weigh the asset class with some of history's most spectacular asset bubbles.

BTC/USDDuring a waterfall decline, support levels are not honored, making it difficult to predict the bottom.

The event is a new segment of their Asia Blockchain Week programme, that will be hosted in Singapore from Nov. 27 until Dec. 1, 2018.

Friday, Nov. 23: Crypto markets are facing another significant decline today, with Bitcoin seeing another yearly low, and Bitcoin Cash dropping almost 50 percent over the past 7 days, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

Ripple is a settlement system and remittance network originally created by Chris Larsen, Jed McCaleb, and Arthur Britto under the company OpenCoin.

The satellite operator owned by South Korea's largest telecommunications company KT Corporation is exploring blockchain, local newspaper EDaily reports Friday, Nov. 23.

Patrick Byrne, founder and CEO of U.S. retail giant Overstock, is planning to sell the retail arm of his company to focus on blockchain by early next year, The Wall Street Journal reports Nov. 23.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy is planning to fight tax evasion schemes by using blockchain, German business news outlet WirtschaftsWoche reported Nov. 22.

Nobuaki Kobayashi, trustee of the now-defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt.Gox, is making efforts to extend the deadline for filing civil rehabilitation claims, according to an official announcement Nov. 22.

Since May 2014, Thailand has been under the control of a military dictatorship.

The Constituent National Assembly of Venezuela has approved a bill on cryptocurrency regulation, the country's Ministry for Communication and Information reported Nov. 21.

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is reportedly losing another senior executive.

The blockchain subsidiary of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange now has official approval from the island's financial regulator.

The 2018 cryptocurrency price decline is a result of investors' "Lack of education," the CEO of Canadian firm Blockchain Intelligence Group said in an interview published in German economics news outlet Finanzen.

SBI Ripple Asia and the Japan Payment Card Consortium have announced a joint proof of concept to combat fraud with blockchain technology, according to an official release published Nov. 16.

Ethereum developers are quietly discussing a previously undisclosed upgrade that could boost the capabilities of the technology more aggressively in the short-term.

Bankrupt U.S.-based bitcoin mining firm Giga Watt just hiked the value of its assets in a revised filing.

"Big Four" auditor Ernst & Young will hire 2,000 employees in India to expand its digital solution services across blockchain, artificial intelligence, automation and tax technologies.

At least twelve Initial Coin Offering projects that raised over $50 million in their token sales have yet to launch, new data by cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX revealed Nov. 21.

Bitcoin's defense of key long-term support for the second time in four days is a positive sign for a potential recovery rally.

A startup says the tokenization of assets represents the next big milestone for blockchain technology - and is creating a platform that's going to enable individuals and businesses to digitize real-world items.