The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

A blockchain startup headed by a group of former Deloitte employees is launching a new supply chain platform.

Major cryptocurrency Bitcoin has again dipped below the $7,000 point today, according to Cointelegraph's BTC price index.

China's central bank, the People's Bank of China, is extending the activities of its Digital Currency Research Lab beyond the country's capital, local media outlet CNstock reports September 5.

Blockchain development startup Spacemesh has just raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital, the firm announced Wednesday.

Bitcoin dropped below $7,000 a few minutes before press time, in a move that warrants caution as a possible bull trap.

A property-backed token, possibly representing the world's largest area yet, will soon come to fruition in Australia, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.

According to Civic founder Vinny Lingham, while the technology is all in place for the system to work, it's this network of users that the company is still struggling to achieve.

Few governments may be pushing harder to cultivate a regulatory blockchain oasis than Malta, whose top-down enthusiasm for the emerging technology now seems to have spread to the world of academia.

The Digital Currency Research Lab of the People's Bank of China is further expanding its ongoing research efforts to several cities outside of Beijing to encourage deployment of fintech, including blockchain, in real-life projects.

R3, one of the most prominent startups in the sector, tried unsuccessfully this summer to muscle in on another blockchain consortium, the Utility Settlement Coin project, which is managed by U.K. technology vendor Clearmatics, CoinDesk has learned.

The debate between Bitcoin and its hard-forked Bitcoin Cash continues to stir in the global cryptocurrency community.

The Australian Securities Exchange has launched a probe into an IT firm behind a listed penny stock seeking to raise $15 million via an initial coin offering for the launch of a cryptocurrency exchange.

Members of the European Parliament held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss a proposal that, if approved, would create new regulations on initial coin offerings held within the economic bloc.

The Secretary of Iran's Supreme Cyberspace Council revealed that various ministries of the country's government have accepted crypto mining as an industry, local news agency IBENA reports September 4.

The reason the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission has insofar denied crypto exchange traded funds is because the crypto industry does not fit the applicant archetype, according to the CEO of crypto payment startup Abra, CNBC reported September 4.

The MEGA Chrome extension version 3.39.4 has been compromised and can now steal user's Monero in addition to other sensitive information, according to recent posts on Twitter and Reddit.

Cryptocurrency mass adoption continues to gain traction in countries around the world.

Cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has introduced a new rewards program, which will eventually become a mandatory membership model for the exchange's users, according to an announcement published September 4.

We will turn positive when the price scales the 50-day SMA.If the price breaks down of the symmetrical triangle, a retest of August 14 lows could be possible.

The crypto automated trading machine market will grow to $114.5 million by 2023, according a report published Sept. 4 on ResearchandMarkets.com.

The Australian Securities Exchange has pushed back its ambitious plans of launching a full-fledged distributed ledger settlement system from 2020 to Q2 of 2021, according to an official report.

Cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has launched a new membership program that will eventually become mandatory for its users.

The Google Cloud team has officially made the Ethereum dataset available in BigQuery, the company's big data warehouse for analytics, according to a post published on Google's official blog August 29.

Lloyd's Register, a British tech and business maritime classification society, has created a model of a blockchain-powered class register of ships, according to an official press release published September 4.

The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to release new trading rules for cryptocurrency exchanges in the coming days, according to local media.

Bithumb, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, is allegedly being exploited by a sophisticated group of traders who have created a fake trading volume to the tune of $250 million-plus a day on the exchange's order books.

The Australian Securities Exchange has announced that it will delay its transition to use blockchain for equity transactions by six months, the Sydney Morning Herald reports September 4.

Bitcoin is trading at around $7,374 at press time, up over 1 percent on the day as it continues boost its newly won gains, according to Cointelegraph's Bitcoin Price Index.

The People's Bank of China has officially launched the testing phase of a blockchain trade finance platform, local news outlet Shanghai Securities News reported September 4.

The Korea Internet and Security Agency, a sub-organization of the South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT, has announced plans to expand public blockchain pilot projects to revitalize the domestic blockchain market, ZDNet Korea reports September 4.