The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

IBM has officially dipped its toes in the cross-border payments pool, having brought its long-awaited Blockchain World Wire payments system out of beta testing.

A report from a Belgian think tank that will reportedly be distributed to European Union ministers calls for unified legislation on cryptocurrencies and more scrutiny on how they are distributed to investors, Reuters reported September 5.The report, ostensibly released by Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, comes ahead of an informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers from the E.U. on cryptocurrency investments and taxation of the digital economy.

Ethereum, the world's second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, fell to its lowest price since 2017 on Wednesday, a development shared by Cardano, the world's ninth largest by market capitalization.

Emerging regulations and increasing investor interest have drawn Wall Street into the cryptocurrency sector, and with a custody offering already in the works, investment bank Goldman Sachs is holding off on launching a Bitcoin trading desk.

In a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Brian Kelly, the founder and CEO of digital currency investment firm BKCM LLC, said that Initial Coin Offerings are around to stay, but with some changes.

Last year, the inflation rate of ether, the native cryptocurrency of Ethereum, was around 17 percent.

Swiss blockchain startup Smart Valor has won approval from the country's regulators to operate in the local financial market, Reuters reported September 5.Smart Valor will be regulated by the local Financial Services Standards Association rather than the national regulatory agency, the Financial Market Supervisory Authority.

It turns out that the cannabis publication High Times is accepting cryptocurrency for its ongoing initial public offering after all.

While the crypto community may be quick to reference circumstantial evidence that Goldman Sachs may be terminating plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk, the current sell-off is closely linked to the movement of over 111,000 BTC from wallets associated with purported Silk Road operator Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht.

Crypto exchange Bittrex is set to delist Bitcoin Gold, a hard fork of Bitcoin, by Sept.14, after details of an $18 million hack of the BTG network in May emerged this week.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss' company has filed a new patent for "Securely storing digital assets," the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revealed Tuesday, September 4.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told a Congressional committee Wednesday that the social media company is exploring blockchain solutions for its platform.

At the recent EU event entitled "Regulating ICOs - Is the Crowdfunding Proposal what we were looking for?" the attendees examined the potential complications currently arising in the ICO industry.

The security token offering, or STO as it is better known, has become more commonplace in today's crypto fundraising market.

Financial clearing and execution company Apex Clearing confirmed it planned to open a dedicated cryptocurrency entity in a press release Wednesday, September 5.

Barring Stellar and Bitcoin, each one is down by more than 7 percent.

Julian Zegelman, a lawyer with many years of experience, has turned into a VC - he's now a general partner at TMT Blockchain Fund, a venture capital fund investing in blockchain technology projects.

A Belgium-based think tank is arguing that the EU should create a single standard for cryptocurrency rules in a report sent to finance ministers within the economic bloc.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is halting its plans to open a cryptocurrency trading desk, Business Insider reports September 5, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Payment provider TransferGo has announced it is launching a remittance corridor to India that uses Ripple technology for near real-time transactions.

Calls to enforce clear and uniform guidelines for crypto across European Union member states are to be made before EU finance ministers this week, Reuters reports September 5.

Seattle-based LifeID is aiming to disrupt online identity by enabling individual users and blockchain networks to take ownership of their digital identities through a decentralized platform for managing personal information.

Xyz domains to connect to their wallets, smart contracts or other services, ENS developer Nick Johnson announced Wednesday.

The Securities Commission of Malaysia has ordered an immediate halt to all promotional activities for the recently-launched Lavidacoin pending further review, according to a September 5 notice on the SC's website.

Byte Power Group, the Australian company aiming to launch the country's first cryptocurrency exchange using an ICO, responded to regulatory pressure with fresh information about its plans Wednesday, September 5.

Investment bank Goldman Sachs has reportedly dropped plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk, for now at least.

Intel and software multinational company SAP have announced that they are joining forces to address "Gaps in the market" for solutions that power enterprise blockchain systems, according to an official Intel post September 4.

The government of Bahrain has stressed the importance of blockchain technology for the country's economy while urging cybersecurity vigilance, local media outlet News of Bahrain reported Tuesday, September 4.

According to cryptocurrency researcher Dovey Wan, the decentralized prediction marketplace Augur sold around 1 million Ethereum at $0.7 immediately following its fundraising round.

Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Argentinian startup Ripio is making peer-to-peer microloans available today to all its 200,000 bitcoin wallet users in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil.