The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Crypto exchange Bittrex will delist Bitcoin Gold, a hard fork of Bitcoin, by September 14 following an $18 million hack of the BTG network in May, The Next Web reported September 3.

Jeremy Rubin, a technical advisor to Stellar, a Bitcoin Core Contributor, advisor to early-stage crypto startups, and founder of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, has said that Ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain network, will eventually lose its value and hit zero.

Mobile trading app Robinhood is rolling out candlestick charts to "Better inform" its users, the company announced Tuesday.

IBM has brought its Blockchain World Wire payment network out of beta this week, according to a ?? post on IBM's website.

Belgium's Financial Services and Markets Authority has added 28 new sites to its crypto-related fraud blacklist, as it reiterates its warnings to consumers in a fresh alert posted today, September 4.

Litecoin's price hit a one-month high on Monday amid a broader bullish tone in the cryptocurrency market.

Global crypto wallet Abra has enabled the direct purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies for European bank accounts, according to a press-release published by PR Newswire Tuesday, September 4.

British maritime classification society Lloyd's Register has developed a prototype blockchain platform aimed to enable more efficient shipping registration, the organization announced Tuesday.

Over $12 billion worth of value has been given to support various blockchain and cryptocurrency projects globally through token crowdsales and thousands of new blockchain companies have been created due to the boom in the industry.

A blockchain trade finance platform spearheaded by China's central bank has entered the testing phase ahead of an official roll-out.

When Tron founder Justin Sun bought BitTorrent in one of the most talked-about tech acquisitions of the year, it turns out he wasn't even the highest bidder.

A new smart banking ecosystem based on blockchain technology is offering an all-in-one platform for managing cryptocurrencies, fiat money and stocks - and hopes to make crypto payments practical and widespread.Platio believes that, eventually, all financial assets are going to be tokenized and run on blockchains - completely transforming the international financial system.

IBM is taking its long-in-the-works blockchain-based payment system out of beta, with the launch of a new product called Blockchain World Wire.

The Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece has ruled to extradite alleged BTC-e owner Alexander Vinnik to Russia to face several cyber fraud charges, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reports Tuesday, September 4.

Those thirsting for the first glimpse of IOTA's Qubic may have their fill by the end of the year, with the project's latest "Promised" monthly status update reiterating that a proof-of-concept should be unveiled "Around the end" of 2018.Qubic monthly status update - September 3rd 2018https://t.

On Aug. 31, Line, Japan's most widely utilized messaging app with more than 200 million active users, revealed the launch of its own cryptocurrency called LINK. Upon its announcement, Line immediately listed LINK on its digital asset exchange BitBox, which it launched back in July of this year.

Regulators in the Philippines plan to reveal draft cryptocurrency regulation by the middle of this month, local media outlet The Manila Times reported Monday, September 3.

Germany's joint stock company Deutsche Börse has established a dedicated unit for blockchain and crypto assets, Finextra reported September 3.

The list of indicators signaling a long-term bullish reversal in bitcoin continues to grow with each passing week.

Despite Bitcoin's 80 percent decline in the market dominance it held in January 2017, it is still the most recognizable name in cryptocurrency, and The Bitcoin Foundation is taking advantage of this with new initiatives to educate lawmakers, regulators, the general public, the media and more through training programs and seminars.

The South Korean government is literally doubling down on its efforts to trial blockchain in the public sector, adding more projects and increasing available funds for 2019.

In order to onboard users to an EOS dapp, developers generally have to make sure they've secured sufficient amounts of three separate resources: RAM, which amounts to state storage on the blockchain; CPU, which measures average consumption of computing resources in microseconds; and network bandwidth, or NET, which measures average consumption in bytes.

It's no secret that a cryptocurrency wallet can be accessed by a private key-a string of letters and numbers that, if revealed, allows all those who hold it access to the cryptocurrency held within.

Crypto wallet and exchange startup Abra is opening up a new channel for deposits: European bank accounts.

The Australian Securities Exchange has pushed back the expected launch time of a blockchain network to Q2 in 2021 that is set to replace the country's decades-old CHESS clearing and settlement system.

The Chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has said that the bank will focus on blockchain technology development, BiaNews reported September 1.Founded in 1984, the ICBC is reportedly the largest bank in China with over 5,000 corporate and 530 million personal customers.

At least, that's the contention of a new paper, shared with CoinDesk on Monday, written by ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, Microsoft researcher Glen Weyl and Ph.D. of economics at Harvard, Zoë Hitzig.

Major insurance firm the People's Insurance Company of China will apply blockchain technology to its operations via a new partnership, according to a September 1 press release.

Despite its reluctance toward crypto finance and ICO advertisements, Google is not shying away from the technical prowess of blockchain networks.

A former Deutsche Bank trader has joined Japanese crypto exchange-startup FXcoin Ltd., Bloomberg reports September 3.According to the announcement, Yasuo Matsuda, an institutional trader from Deutsche Bank, will join FXcoin as a senior crypto strategist starting in September 2018.