The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

U.S. cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider Coinbase has cut "At least" fifteen staff after hiring 250 this year, Yahoo Finance quotes unidentified sources as saying Friday, Oct. 26.

Following news of Bitmain and Canaan IPO filings in Hong Kong, Europe looks set to record its own first major crypto IPO, as blockchain infrastructure provider Bitfury is reportedly considering plans to list publicly in London, Amsterdam or Hong Kong.

A new commissioner at U.S. regulator the Commodity Futures Trading Commission repeated called for handling fintech - including blockchain and cryptocurrency - with an "Open mind" in a speech Thursday, Oct. 25.

Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao has appealed to his followers on Twitter to report an impostor pretending to be the CEO of the Korean arm of the crypto exchange.

Major Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx will delist over 50 trading pairs with weak performance, according to an announcement published Oct. 25.

Dark pool platform Republic Protocol has teamed with crypto custodian BitGo and decentralized liquidity pool Cyber Network to launch a Bitcoin-backed ERC20 token on the Ethereum blockchain.

At the time of the bitcoin white paper's publication, I was building a company in the global mobile banking space.

An early bitcoin developer, Taaki addressed a crowd of more than a thousand coders that had gathered to discuss "Web 3.0" - or the restructuring of internet infrastructures with an emphasis on decentralization.

On Oct. 25, the IOTA foundation revealed a bug bounty program for their Trinity wallet is now extended to project enthusiasts and the broader cryptocurrency community, from being a third-party audit process as earlier.

The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a warning about investing in nine digital tokens and Initial Coin Offerings, which have not been accredited by the regulator, news outlet Bangkok Post reported Oct. 26.

Singapore-based blockchain platform VeChain Foundation, U.S. blockchain startup CREAM, and the national investment partner of the Republic of Cyprus, Invest Cyprus, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, per a press release published Oct. 26.

The Blockchain Charity Foundation, a social project of the world's largest crypto exchange Binance, has introduced its blockchain-powered donation platform, Binance Blog revealed Friday, Oct. 26.

"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve." - Satoshi Nakamoto Introduction.

U.S. crypto wallet and blockchain security firm BitGo has announced the development of an Ethereum-based coin backed 1:1 with Bitcoin, according to an official blog post Friday, Oct. 26.

A Chinese arbitration court declared crypto-assets such as Bitcoin must be treated as legal property, despite an infamous blanket ban on cryptocurrencies in the country.

If the bears breakdown of the immediate support at $6,500, a fall to the next support at $6,200 is probable.

Bitcoin is experiencing an unprecedented period of low volatility, which could either be a sign that the lodestar cryptocurrency has found its price level, or has found a market floor in preparation for the next bull run.

An advisory committee of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service wants the agency to provide additional guidelines for the taxation of crypto transactions, according to a 2018 general report published Oct. 24.

A commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission spoke positively about the potential uses for blockchain while emphasizing how his agency must respect its role in financial markets during a meeting of international regulators on Thursday.

The notably edited title of Andreas Antonopoulos' classic book "Mastering Bitcoin" was aired in an ad for the book on China's state-run TV channel China Central Television Oct. 19.

An eerie calm continues to linger over cryptocurrency markets Friday, Oct. 26, as Bitcoin volatility hits an all-time low and altcoins remain stagnant.

CEO of global payment giant Visa Al Kelly stated that cryptocurrency does not pose a challenge to the company's dominance in the payment sphere in the "Short to medium-term," in an interview on CNBC's Mad Money Oct. 25.

Shipping giant Maersk and tech provider IBM are wrestling with this problem with TradeLens, their distributed ledger technology platform for supply chains.

The Indian Supreme Court has set a deadline of two weeks for the country's government to present its official position on cryptocurrencies, Indian newspaper The Economic Times reports Friday, Oct. 26.

An advisory committee to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service believes the agency should provide clearer guidelines on how cryptocurrency transactions may be taxed.

In January, a new token is being launched on the ethereum blockchain that will be backed one-for-one by bitcoin.

The four biggest agricultural corporations plan to utilize tech such as blockchain and AI to bring the global grain trade into the digital age.

An Australia-based digital entertainment company with a global audience of 350 million gamers is turning its attention to blockchain as it launches its first cryptocurrency-based web game.

Bloomberg's analysts have joined the ranks of experts who consider that Bitcoin's low volatility levels recently signal the coin is finding a bottom, according to an analysis published Oct. 24.

dYdX. dYdX, a San Francisco-based startup building open-source protocols for decentralized margin trading and derivatives, recently closed a $10 million Series A round.