The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

American bank holding corporation Capital One has filed a patent application for the implementation of blockchain technology in user authentication, according to a filing published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office August 16.

Friday, Aug. 17: all top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap have seen green today, with Ripple and EOS up over 15 percent over the past 24 hours, according to Coinmarketcap.

Tube8, an adult video service and subsidiary of Pornhub, has partnered up with with the Vice Industry Token to pay viewers for interacting with its services.

Binance will add another stamp to its passport book, having joined forces with Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange to build a new fiat-to-cryptocurrency exchange in the European nation.

Food safety firm ZEGO is using blockchain to test products for residue of a deadly chemical tied to a recent $289 million Monsanto lawsuit, according to a press release published August 16.

Above the range, the virtual currency can again face resistance at the 20-day EMA, at the downtrend line of the descending triangle and at the 50-day SMA. For the past seven days, the bears have repeatedly pushed prices down from the $6,617.

Ripple has signed on three new exchange partners-Bittrex, Bitso and Coins.

A Russian independent electoral watchdog is trialing a blockchain-based electronic voting system, local news platform Tass reports August 17.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to trial blockchain technology to verify North American Free Trade Agreement and Central American Free Trade Agreement certificates.

Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has partnered on a new art project that utilizes a pair of newly-minted ethereum-based tokens.

The cryptocurrency situation in Venezuela received a push on Tuesday, Aug. 14, after President Nicolás Maduro announced that the state-issued Petro token is legally a unit-of-account in the crisis-stricken country, ABC International reports.

After its successful ICO in April 2018, the blockchain for enterprise enabler Unibright is now teaming up with out-of-the-box projects in the field of blockchain.

A patent by U.S. crypto exchange and wallet provider Coinbase proposes a new mechanism for further securing Bitcoin payments, according to a filing published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office August 14.

New research from Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. suggests that revenue generated by cryptocurrency exchanges could more than double to hit $4 billion in 2018, Bloomberg reports August 17.

A bomb threat was sent to a Norwegian cryptocurrency mining company for "Sabotaging the peace" with noise this past Saturday.

While cryptocurrency scams and lawsuits are usually based on "Exit-scams" and outright frauds, Michael Terpin, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency investor, has filed a mammoth $224 million lawsuit against his telecom operator, citing the theft of digital tokens.

The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority has said that crypto investment scams are increasingly targeting British investors, in an official warning published August 17.

Privacy coin zcash is gearing up for a major upgrade with the first release of network software compatible with its upcoming Sapling hard fork.

Cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto Facilities has added Bitcoin Cash to its list of futures products, announcing in a press release that the product would go live at 4PM BST Friday, August 17.

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has revealed its new Blockchain-as-a-Service platform in a press release published today, August 17.

A Serbian and Italian national has been ordered to pay bail in cryptocurrency while he faces charges that he hacked the computer network of a San Francisco game company.

Launched Aug. 15, U.S. investors are now able to invest in a fully-regulated Bitcoin ETN. XBT Provider AB has released an exchange-traded note, called Bitcoin Tracker One, to U.S. investors, reports Bloomberg.

U.S. banking giant Capital One is working on using blockchain technology to usher in more convenient and secure user authentication methods for instances such as banking security.

The latest advancement in the field relates to the country's old corruption staple - fake invoices used to embezzle corporate and state funds.

A decentralized exchange claims that its trading fees are considerably lower than that of its rivals - with a one percent fee reduced to 0.03 percent whenever they use the platform's native tokens.

Japanese messaging giant Line appears to be diving deeper into the world of cryptocurrency following its launch of a $10 million token venture fund.

For bitcoin, the path of least resistance is to the upside, according to technical charts.

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has launched a blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first app - one that digitally tracks corporate invoices for one of the largest publicly traded insurers in China.

At a time when it's hard to find a correlation between cryptocurrencies and just about any other asset class, it may come as a surprise that a fairly public stock would be tracking bitcoin.

A German university released a cryptocurrency mining-centric report, Aug. 14, noting a rise in revenue generated by illegal mining software, despite the fall in "Cryptojacking."