The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

IoT-driven blockchain platform IOTA announced the upcoming release of real-world integration with vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen.

The Bitcoin Cash network experienced over 2.1 million transactions on September 1 as a result of the recently launched BCH stress test, according to data from BitInfoCharts.

Japan's financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency, will fortify the process of registration screening for cryptocurrency exchanges, local media outlet The Japan Times reports September 2.The FSA has ungraded the registration process, revising the Payment Services Act - enforced since April 2017 - in order to "To see whether they are properly conducting risk management," sources told The Japan Times.

Bittrex, one of the top cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide, has recently invested in Malta-based blockchain company Palladium, local news outlet Times of Malta reports September 2.

Peter Brandt, a highly experienced trader in the FX and cryptocurrency market, said in his 43 years of trading, he has not seen any asset that experienced a major trend reversal after an 80 percent correction within two weeks of stability.

The textbook case of crisis-driven crypto adoption is Venezuela, with the first report on Venezuelans turning to Bitcoin arriving in October 2014.

Bitcoin is trading at around $7,244 at press time, up around 2.4 percent on the day, according to CoinMarketCap.

The cryptocurrency market may have experienced a flat run over the course of 2018 thus far with Bitcoin prices failing to break through the $10,000 barrier since early March, but new research published by ING demonstrates that adoption rates are rising rapidly.

Born in Venezuela, he now lives in Israel where he is researching and marketing stablecoin projects.

Proponents of the Ethereum 'World Supercomputer' may balk at the recently liberated Tron's impressive post-mainnet momentum-with the young blockchain having rocketed to handling a third of Ethereum's daily transaction count in August.

While the term is flexible, generally speaking, masternodes are defined as computers on a network - staked with tokens - that perform additional work besides just helping run the software that governs a given cryptocurrency.

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange may be a part of this new crop; having shared with CryptoSlate the context of its recently launched institutional-grade digital asset exchange and token-sale platform.

Bitcoin continues to climb steadily over the $7,000 mark, seeing 2.52 percent gains over the past 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap.

Ethereum's core developers held another meeting, Aug. 31, to further discuss the world's second-largest cryptocurrency network's four-stage development plan-including additional details on the Constantinople hard fork and Casper.

U.S. retail giant Walmart has applied to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to patent a blockchain system for deliveries, according to an official patent document released August 30.The new patent aims to provide a technology for running "In-field authenticating of autonomous electronic devices" to enable secure deliveries.

On Aug. 3, the global exchanges conglomerate announced a solution by way of its new company Bakkt.

Popular messaging app Line is launching its own LINK token, a cryptocurrency built on the platform's native LINK Chain.

The number of merchants accepting Bitcoin and other coins is nonetheless steadily increasing, with the number of Bitcoin-accepting stores reported to Coinmap - worldwide - had risen by 3,716 in a single year.

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Of particular emphasis is improving the software's default wallet, where user's bitcoin private keys are stored.

After several instances of cryptocurrency-based crime and a stark increase in the use of cryptocurrencies as a money-laundering tool, Japan's National Police Agency revealed it would launch a crypto-tracking software to trace digital currency transactions in the country.

In the past several months, the popularity of blockchain technology has soared to unprecedented levels and is beginning to garner attention from more than just tech enthusiasts, with some of the most influential members of society discussing the technology for a range of industries.

Using real-world data, research firm Satis Group has released its 10-year price forecast for the 10 leading cryptocurrencies.

Ethereum core developers decided on their regular YouTube meeting August 31 to delay the "Difficulty Bomb" by agreeing to include the code for such a change into the upcoming Constantinople hard fork.

The Taipei Medical University Hospital has rolled out a blockchain-powered platform to improve medical record-keeping, Taipei Times reported August 31.

A new Hong Kong government initiative seeks to attract professionals in Distributed Ledger Technology by simplifying the immigration policy, according to a press release published August 28.

Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist and self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin, took to Twitter Aug. 28 to state miners unable to mine 32 MB Bitcoin blocks deserve to "Go bankrupt."

Firefox will block cryptojacking malware in future versions of its web browser, according to an announcement August 30.

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Bitfi has officially closed its bounty program, according to an August 30 tweet, in addition to removing the "Unhackable" claim from the wallet's marketing materials.

Tron CEO Justin Sun recently revealed details of Tron's highly anticipated "Secret project" at the Tron Virtual Machine launch Aug. 31, officially announcing Project Atlas.