The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has hired another Wall street executive as part of its bid to attract more institutional clients.

Bitcoin is having a tough time scaling a key moving average hurdle that has kept the bulls in check for four weeks straight.

The highest number of recorded incidents of Coinhive cryptojacking software have taken place in Brazil, Iran's country's cybersecurity authority revealed in a report Monday, October 8.

Its main purpose is to establish a common definition of 'blockchain' technology along with a blockchain working group that would potentially overview studies for federal adoption of the technology.

A Twitter user by the handle GeoCold posted a tweet on Oct. 7 announcing their intention to wage a 51 percent attack against altcoin Einsteinium and live-stream the entire event on Twitch.

Blockchain startup Citizens Reserve is partnering with enterprise software startup Blockdaemon to more rapidly deploy nodes.

Blockchain finance firm Clearmatics Technologies has raised over $12 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital firm Route 66 Ventures.

As it awaits its Japanese operating license, an executive from leading U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase has made positive remarks about the country's toughened stance towards the crypto industry.

The head of Singapore's financial regulator and de facto central bank said he wants to "Bring together" banks and crypto businesses after complaints about banking support, Bloomberg reports Wednesday, Oct. 10.

Mastercard has been awarded a patent for a method to partition a blockchain, making it capable of storing multiple transaction types and formats.

A senior executive of the U.S.-based crypto exchange Coinbase has said he is confident the firm will receive an operating license in Japan next year, even while regulators in the country are stepping up scrutiny of crypto exchanges.

The United Arab Emirates is spearheading cryptocurrency adoption in the Gulf region and intends to introduce initial coin offerings as a legal means-of-fundraising in 2019, reported Reuters on Oct. 8.UAE's ICO Push.

Former JPMorgan executive Blythe Masters predicts "Tens if not hundreds" of blockchain projects will soon increase the efficiency of commodity markets, Bloomberg reports Tuesday, Oct. 9.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the city-state's central bank, is working to ensure cryptocurrency startups receive domestic banking services as part of the country's efforts to boost fintech development.

The UTRUST API is aimed at online and point-of-sale crypto acceptance worldwide.

The latest is PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world's second-largest professional services firm, who has thrown its weight behind a USD stablecoin project aiming to "Usher in the next 100M users of crypto assets."

China should increase its research efforts on the topic of stablecoins and consider backing domestic institutions to issue a yuan-pegged cryptocurrency, a researcher from the People's Bank of China argues.

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Tuesday, Oct. 9: Crypto markets keep trading sideways, with almost all top 20 coins by market cap in the red after seeing some growth yesterday.

Ethereum-based adult entertainment platform SpankChain has suffered a smart contract security breach that led to loss of around $38,000, the firm reported on its Medium page Oct. 9.The hack, which purportedly took place Oct. 6, was detected by SpankChain a day after, and was announced today in a post entitled "We Got Spanked: What We Know So Far.".

Canada's largest digital currency exchange QuadrigaCX is blaming legal action from a major bank for delays when customers cash out funds, the Globe and Mail reported Oct. 8.Vancouver-based crypto exchange QuadrigaCX was launched in 2013 and is known as the first exchange in Canada to be licensed by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada.

The state authorities of Malta will assist the government of the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu in forming blockchain regulations, the Vanuatu Daily Post reported Monday, Oct. 8.Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vanuatu Ralph Regenvanu has reportedly requested assistance from the Maltese government in forming blockchain legislation upon instructions from the Council of Ministers.

Switzerland-based commodities assets manager Tiberius Group AG has delayed the sale of its metals-backed cryptocurrency, Tiberius Coin, due to high fees from credit card companies, Bloomberg reported Oct. 9.The company announced its intention to issue a digital currency tied to the price of metals - copper, aluminum, nickel, cobalt, tin, gold and platinum - in late September.

A recent study from Juniper Research states that the cryptocurrency market could "Implode" and that transaction volumes are decreasing, Bloomberg reported Oct. 9.In a report dubbed "The Future of Cryptocurrency: Bitcoin & Altcoin Trends & Challenges 2018-2023" Juniper assessed the challenges of digital currencies, with a focus on technical, social and regulatory concerns.

The famed Bitcoin mining industry boasted of record revenues in the first half of 2018, surpassing all of 2017.

Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash services firm Bitcoin.com is planning to buy or set up its own crypto exchange, the company's CEO Roger Ver revealed in an interview with Bloomberg Oct. 9.According to Ver, the upcoming crypto trading platform will be placed on the Bitcoin.com website, which is expected to generate a great amount of traffic via various services such as wallet transactions and news.

Canada-based crypto exchange QuadrigaCX is waiting on a verdict in a long-running legal case against the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

There's a towering inflatable rat on Wall Street and it's found a temporary home in front of a branch of the world's most powerful bank.

Mastercard has won a patent for a proposed system that would allow for the launch of different kinds of blockchains - including those that support multiple currencies.

International business media outlet Forbes has partnered with blockchain-based platform Civil to publish its content on a decentralized network, Civil's co-founder confirmed on Medium on Tuesday, Oct. 9.