The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

A new patent awarded to tech giant IBM highlights how blockchain tech might play a role in monitoring security breaches within computer networks.

An apparently bogus Vitalik Buterin Instagram account with more than 24,000 followers has captured 37 Ether and counting in what appears to be a textbook example of one of the Ethereum co-founder's bemoaned "Giveaway" scams.

Last week, CoinDesk was first to give its readers a glimpse at the application documents of the much-anticipated initial public offering of Bitmain, a mining chip manufacturer and one of the cryptocurrency sector's largest companies in terms of revenue.

Security tokens are not cryptocurrencies or part of unregulated ICOs.Security tokens are essentially digitized traditional securities.

San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service Coinbase is finishing negotiations that would value the company at $8 billion, technology news site Recode reports Oct. 2.Citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, Recode states that Coinbase is in talks with Tiger Global and its shareholders regarding a possible $500 million investment.

Ripple announced the much-anticipated launch of its xRapid product for international payments on Monday, as the status of its currency XRP remains a question.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton didn't have to say much when he delivered the keynote at Ripple's Swell conference in San Francisco.

Brendan Eich, the CEO of decentralized browser Brave, has urged members of the U.S. senate to consider the General Data Protection Regulation as a regulatory model, according to a statement published Oct. 2.In an open letter dated Sept. 29, Eich called on members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to look to the GDPR as a model for American data privacy regulations.

Automated trading programs, or bots, are manipulating digital currency prices on cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a Wall Street Journal report October 2.Automated trading software is a program that allows traders to set specific rules for both trade entries and exits, submit orders to a market center or exchange, and then automatically executes them by means of a computer at speeds greater than any human is able.

The "Lone" Bitcoin investment trust in the U.S., Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust, has seen its net asset value hit the lowest point since the BTC price surge of 2017, Bloomberg reported October 2.Grayscale Investments Inc., the company behind GBTC, reportedly has $1.5 billion in assets under management, and is one of the largest cryptocurrency asset managers in the world.

Chris Dodds, who serves on the board of directors of the Charles Schwab Corporation, has joined cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase's board of directors, according to an announcement published October 2.The Charles Schwab Corporation is a brokerage, banking and financial advisory services firm based in San Francisco.

Binance Labs has reportedly invested millions of dollars in decentralized digital content ecosystem Contentos, according to a press release published October 1.Founded by the largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Binance Labs is an initiative that seeks to support early-stage blockchain and digital currency projects and entrepreneurs by making direct investments, as well as mentoring and providing technical advice to projects.

Cryptocurrencies could serve as a possible solution to disparities currently faced by the U.S. dollar, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said Tuesday.

The Bank of America has estimated that blockchain could be a $7 billion market and provide a major boost to corporate giants such as Microsoft and Amazon, CNBC reports Oct. 2.

A severe bug discovered just weeks ago in bitcoin's code has been exploited - albeit on a lesser-known cryptocurrency.

Tuesday, October 2: crypto markets are seeing mixed signals, with up and down fluctuations for the last few hours and most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market cap seeing losses, according to CoinMarketCap.

After heralding plans to debut cryptocurrency products within the coming months, asset-management monolith Fidelity Investments may be revealing the sheer depth of its intentions with blockchain, has described a series of covert experiments occurring behind the closed doors of its working group.

Puerto Rico's Noble Bank International, which is known for reportedly opening accounts for USD-backed token Tether and crypto exchange Bitfinex, is allegedly searching for a buyer, Bloomberg reports Thursday, October 2.

A member of South Korea's National Assembly has called on the state to "Open up the road" to Initial Coin Offerings by easing regulations, South Korean financial outlet Economy reports October 2.

Crypto mining behemoth Bitmain announced Monday it has acquired the startup behind an open-source bitcoin cash wallet called Telescope.

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has appeared on national television to announce the official launch of the national cryptocurrency Petro, according to a brief summary of his speech posted on Venezuela's government website Monday, October 1.

A digital advertising startup with the goal of "Building a better internet" for web users, publishers and advertisers is embarking on the second round of its token offering - but with a twist.

"Traditional" venture capital investment in blockchain and crypto firms has almost tripled in the first three quarters of 2018, according to a new Diar report published September 30.

The Italian Banking Association has revealed they successfully passed the initial phase of testing their blockchain-powered interbank system, Italian financial media outlet Ansa reported September 29.

Coinbase's leadership expansion continued Tuesday as it added Charles Schwab advisor Chris Dodds to its board of directors and tapped former Instinet CEO Jonathan Kellner to be its new managing director of the Institutional Coverage Group.

A Ukrainian legislator has urged parliament during a speech on Monday, October 1 to review his alternative bill on cryptocurrencies that offers to freeze taxes for crypto traders up to 2030.

For Reserve's Co-Founder Nevan Freeman, Bitcoin almost had it spot-on-a decentralized, censorship-resistant currency architecturally indifferent to governments-and yet one that was fundamentally cursed by its instability.

The chairman of Korea's National Policy Committee has called for the legalization of initial coin offerings, providing that a regulatory framework is put in place.

Still, pundits are optimistic that a Bitcoin ETF approved by the SEC will hit the market in 2019.After reviewing every single Bitcoin ETF proposal in the last two years, I'm quite confident that any Bitcoin ETF based on Bitcoin futures will be rejected.

The U.S. Federal Election Commission is considering a request that, if approved, would allow people to volunteer for political campaigns by lending some of their computing power to mine cryptocurrencies.