The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

A recent report by security company Banbreach has found that in the past month, the number of routers compromised by cryptojacking software in India has doubled.

Those were the prevailing opinions leading up to Mark Friedenbach's much-anticipated talk at Scaling Bitcoin Friday, where the Blockstream co-founder presented for the first time "Forward Blocks," a proposal that claims to make future, contentious changes to bitcoin - such as block size increase or proof-of-work change - easier to do.

Spencer Bogart, an expert from digital currency and blockchain venture firm Blockchain Capital has said that the Bitcoin price has nearly found its bottom, CNBC reported Oct. 5.

Recent research by blockchain-focused company Clovr has revealed that cryptocurrency investing is most popular among millennials earning from $75,000 to $99,999 annually.

Cryptocurrency finance company Circle Internet Financial Ltd. has acquired equity crowdfunding platform and broker-dealer SeedInvest, according to an announcement published October 5.

Christopher Giancarlo, the chairman of U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said in an Oct. 2 speech that enforcement actions and fines increased significantly in the last fiscal year.

On Saturday, Oct. 13, the University of Washington will host its first-ever UW Blockchain Expo., hosted by the college's Blockchain Society.

Mike Novogratz, CEO of crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital Capital Management, does not see Bitcoin scaling above $9,000 in 2018.So, has Bitcoin bottomed or can it fall further?

U.S. index fund company Bitwise Asset Management added Ric Edelman, a financial advisor, and best-selling author, to its advisory team on Oct. 3, as per a press release.

Famous rapper Soulja Boy might just be a bitcoin hodler.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is pushing for tighter sanctions against Venezuela's state-backed cryptocurrency, known as the petro.

Financial intermediaries will be "Facing the chop" thanks to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, Malta's finance minister told Cointelegraph in an interview Friday, October 5.

Satoshi Nakamoto was most likely not a Russian money launderer, but that theory was briefly proposed during a meeting hosted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday.

Decentralized market intelligence platform Numerai announced the launch of Erasure, a crypto-based data gathering, and stock price prediction marketplace.

Those tokens could be staked for using network resources either for personal use or leased out for developers use - as per the project's whitepaper, dApp developers can build their product on the top of the EOS.io protocol and make use of the servers, bandwidth and computational power of EOS itself, as those resources are distributed equally among EOS cryptocurrency holders.

Friday, Oct. 5: cryptocurrencies are seeing little volatility over the past 24 hours to press time, with the majority of losses and gains of top coins capped within a 1 percent range on the day, as data from Coin360 shows.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is asking for further comment on nine different bitcoin exchange-traded fund rule change proposals that are currently under review after initially being rejected.

Forever the cause of feverous speculation, the institutional opinion of Bitcoin seems to stand as the yardstick for price projection.

American journal Time Magazine has included a blockchain startup in its recent top 50 "Genius Companies 2018" list, published Thursday, October 4.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has outlined a time frame for reviewing proposed rule changes related to a series of applications to list and trade various Bitcoin exchange-traded funds.

A major Chinese university is proposing blockchain technology as a better way to manage web domain names.

Two Chilean deputies have presented a resolution on blockchain adoption to the lower house of the country's parliament on Thursday, October 4, local news website Fortin Mapocho reported.

The growth of freelancing and the gig economy is changing the workforce.

Crypto company Circle is reportedly moving to acquire SeedInvest, a crowdfunding platform for startups.

A supposed cheat for the massively popular video game Fortnite turns out to be malware designed to steal bitcoin wallet login details.

Ivy League U.S. university Yale is said to be one of the investors that helped to raise $400 million for a major new cryptocurrency-focused fund, Bloomberg reports October 5.

Crypto investing app Circle Invest announced the addition of three additional collections.

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged seven officers from Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate with cryptocurrency-funded global hacking and related disinformation operations.

Celsius, a cryptocurrency lending startup, says it's paying thousands of users interest for depositing bitcoin and ether with its wallet app.

Update: CNBC is also reporting that Yale's chief investment officer, David Swensen, has also invested for the university in Andreessen Horowitz's $300 million crypto fund, which closed in June.