The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Singapore-based investment company Temasek has officially denied involvement in the cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain's Initial Public Offering, according to an official statement August 30.Last month, media reported that Temasek was one of the key investors in the Bitmain pre-IPO funding round.

Japan's Financial Services Agency has pulled the reins in on aspiring and existing cryptocurrency exchanges by implementing a more rigorous screening process for risk-management procedures, according to Japan Times.

The blockchain-based startup Fishcoin plans to apply decentralized ledger technology to seafood supply chains, linking fishermen and fish farmers at the point of harvest to global seafood supply chain actors, ranging from distributors, processors, wholesalers and retailers.

South Korea has begun a six-month training course to turn forty-two applicants into "Blockchain specialists," local media report Monday, September 3.

Naples' mayor, Luigi de Magistris, has posted an impassioned pledge to launch an autonomous municipal cryptocurrency that, he says, would unshackle the city from "Anti-southern discrimination" and "Unfair" debt, on his Facebook public profile September 2.

Thailand's Anti-Money Laundering Office is considering creating its own digital wallet to investigate crypto-related cybercrime, local news outlet The Nation wrote Monday, September 3.

China's largest insurance conglomerate by total assets handled, the People's Insurance Company of China, has partnered with VeChain, blockchain-based information tracking and governance systems company, with the goal of digitally transforming the insurance industry, according to a press release.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India organized tours to other countries for its officials to study cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings, according to its 2017-18 annual report.

Bitcoin is trading at around $7,255 at press time, down a fraction of a percent on the day to consolidate its freshly won gains, according to Cointelegraph's Bitcoin Price Index.

South Korea's SBI Savings Bank has signed an MoU with DAYLI Intelligence, a specialist in AI and blockchain technology, to bolster its fintech business, Money Today reports September 3.

As a handful of states scramble for the first draw in a pro-blockchain regulatory arms race, the CEO of Malta-based, "Regulation-ready" cryptocurrency exchange ZBX has claimed the Maltese government's plans may be forging a crypto-utopia like no other.

Walmart's recent patent efforts have showcased how the retail giant is investigating blockchain, and a new filing points to a focus on autonomous delivery drones.

A company says it has created the first decentralized machine learning platform on the blockchain - giving organizations of all sizes the ability to discover new patterns in their data, predict when sales are going to be made, and increase clickthrough rates from customers.

The Japanese city of Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, has recently tested a voting system based on blockchain technology, local newspaper The Japan Times wrote Sunday, September 2.

A former Estonian prime minister has signed on as an advisor to a blockchain startup that wants to encourage people to exercise more.

Internet search giant Google has added ethereum to its big data analytics platform BigQuery.

The core tenets of cryptocurrencies - decentralized ledgers and trustless cryptographic payment clearance - are antithetical to government control over value transfer.

Cryptocurrency purists often dismiss private blockchains as overly expensive undertakings for projects that are better served with a traditional database.

Tech giants Alibaba and IBM are vying for the top spot on a new list that ranks global entities by the number of blockchain-related patents filed to date, published August 31 by iPR Daily.

With signs of bull exhaustion showing on the technical charts, bitcoin faces a return to the psychological support of $7,000.

For those concerned to protect this most critical form of identity, blockchain has piqued considerable interest as a powerful alternative to the closed architectures and proprietary exploits of the existing genomics data market - promising in their stead a secure and open protocol for life's code.

Almost $800 million worth of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash has been withdrawn from wallets associated with defunct cryptocurrency "Black market" Silk Road marketplace and linked to Silk Road owner Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht, signaling a potential large-scale Bitcoin market dump.

Major financial and technological enterprises from China and the U.S. are leading the global drive to develop blockchain applications, according to a new report that ranks entities by patents filed.

The high rate was a telling sign that traders were uncertain about price direction, utilizing bitcoin to exit the market through a transfer of crypto to fiat.

According to BitMEX Research, a group of analysts at major Bitcoin exchange BitMEX, Bitmain has been intentionally lowering the profit margin of its core business prior to its initial public offering.

A Japanese city government has become one of the first in the country to have tested a blockchain-based system that lets residents cast votes to select city development programs.

Three years ago, Microsoft Azure was the first to bring blockchain to the cloud.

Top Stories This WeekYahoo Finance Integrates Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin on iOS App.Yahoo Finance has integrated BTC, ETH, and LTC on its iOS app this week, with a version briefly appearing and disappearing on its desktop version despite Yahoo noting that the desktop, mobile web, and Android version won't be available for several weeks.

Ever since 2014 and the onset of hyperinflation, they've seen marked increases in ownership and trading, with impressive rises being witnessed in the past few months, as Venezuelan inflation topped an eye-watering 46,000 percent and as the IMF predicted an inflation rate of 1,000,000 percent by the end of 2018.However, as the following will show, the meteoric rise of crypto in Venezuela doesn't simply result from the desire to avoid the worst effects of hyperinflation.

Taking advantage of blockchain solutions, WorkCoin is a decentralized freelancer marketplace that aims to be fully transparent and frictionless.