The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Gary Cohn, a former chief economic advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, has just joined a blockchain startup.

An influx of institutional investors to the cryptocurrency markets may help the space "Mature," U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair J. Christopher Giancarlo said Friday.

Bitcoin has has seen little price action on the day, and is up 0.5 percent to trade at $6,318 as of press time.

The director of Ethereum Classic's investment branch ETC Labs revealed in an interview Thursday, Oct. 11, that it will work with as many as 24 startups each year.

Investors will soon be able to trade litecoin on the Winklevoss brothers-founded cryptocurrency exchange Gemini.

Ethereum-based adult entertainment platform SpankChain confirmed that it had recovered all the funds lost during a security breach October 6.

The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is calling on cryptocurrency exchanges to monitor Iranian use of crypto to evade sanctions.

An independent researcher from the People's Bank of China argued that China must increase its research efforts in the stablecoin space and support upcoming companies that are exploring a yuan-pegged cryptocurrency.

London-based Christie's, one of the oldest and most noted art auction houses in the world, is turning to blockchain tech to securely store sales and provenance data.

The prospect of a deeper drop in bitcoin prices has increased, price-volume analysis indicates.

A group led by one of South Korea's leading plastic surgeons, Dr. Kim Byung Gun, has made a major investment in crypto exchange Bithumb's holding company.

On Oct.9, the Cardano team released a video updating investors and the public about the progress of Project Shelley, which the firm touts as a path to the protocol's "Full decentralization."

A U.S. regulator is urging domestic exchanges to help prevent the Iranian regime from using cryptocurrency to bypass economic sanctions.

A fake news site has used the likeness of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to promote articles on Facebook aimed to pump a crypto startup.

Dragonfly Capital Partners, a fund led by crypto investor Alexander Pack and experienced Chinese venture investor with 20 years of experience Bo Feng, has raised $100 million for its first fund to invest in cryptoasset startups.

Southern California company Glen Oaks Escrow announced on Oct. 9th. that it will begin accepting payment in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash through BitPay.

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada, a government agency charged with supervising and regulating power utility services in the state, is looking to implement blockchain for its energy credit tracking system.

Cybersecurity software company Palo Alto Networks reports that miners looking to use your computer to expand their hashing power are getting sneakier.

Namely, Chinese internet controls - commonly known as the "Great Firewall" - make it difficult for those in China and the West to converse using the same platforms: Western EOS enthusiasts mostly gather on Telegram, while WeChat dominates in China.

Bithumb, currently the largest cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea by trading volume, just confirmed it has sold more than 38 percent of its total ownership to a blockchain consortium based in Singapore, for 400 billion won, or $350 million.

A hacker who stole 165.38 ETH from the SpankChain platform has returned the funds.

Leading U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has started listing 0x token, according to an announcement published Oct. 11.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has expanded its crackdown on Initial Coin Offerings, putting "Hundreds" of projects at risk, according to a recent joint investigation by Yahoo Finance and Decrypt Media published, Oct. 10.The authors of the report stressed that hundreds of crypto and blockchain startups that conducted token sales have eventually found that they had violated securities laws despite their endeavors to comply with regulations.

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Jeff Kaufmann, Legal Director at British law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, said that the introduction of cryptocurrency market regulations in the U.K. could take two years, according to an RPC press release published Oct. 11.RPC is a London-based corporate and insurance law firm with offices in Bristol, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and staff amounting to 720 people, including over 80 partners and 330 other lawyers.

The Chinese central bank, the People's Bank of China, has opened four positions for crypto-related professionals, according to a document published Wednesday, Oct. 10 on the bank's website.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has halted a planned Initial Coin Offering that falsely claimed have SEC approval, the agency reported in an official press release Thursday, Oct. 11.The SEC suspended the ICO project with an emergency court order, and also halted pre-ICO sales by the company Blockvest LLC, and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III.The complaint by the SEC alleges that Blockvest falsely claimed that their ICO and affiliates had acquired approval from major financial regulators, including the SEC itself.