In the last 24 hours, the cryptocurrency market suffered one of its worst single-day sell-offs in all of 2018, as Bitcoin (BTC) plunged 11 percent. The substantial short-term drop in the price of Bitcoin... 3 min read →
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) may have just pushed Iran to the wall in its plans to build a state-issued cryptocurrency, having abruptly ejected several banks from the marginalized Middle-Eastern state... 2 min read →
Internet retail behemoth Amazon was recently awarded two blockchain-related patents. The patents related to cryptographic signatures and expandable data grids, signal a race to patent more of the open-source innovations occurring in the space.... 2 min read →
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chair Christine Lagarde has called for central banks to consider the possibility of issuing Central Banks Digital Currencies (CBDC), describing them as potential tools of financial inclusion and consumer protection.... 2 min read →
Bitcoin hits a historic 12 month low of $5400; The pre-eminent cryptocurrency has cratered 11 percent just within the last four hours. The enormous drop in price appears to be driven by major Bitcoin... 2 min read →
Asia’s traditional financial market has begun to recognize the investment merits of cryptocurrencies and its potential to be accepted as a formal asset class. Earlier this month, the Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission... 4 min read →
Thailand’s main opposition Democrat Party has become the first in the world to use blockchain technology in a live electronic voting system involving more than 120,000 voters for its primary election, Zcoin announced in... 2 min read →
Despite having watched Binance trade volumes shrink a cool 90 percent since January, CEO Changpeng Zhao says his market-leading exchange is firing on all cylinders. Speaking to Ran Neuner on CNBC’s Crypto Trader Nov.... 2 min read →
One of the original participants of IOTA’s decentralized data marketplace, engineering and electronics monolith Bosch, has just upped the tempo with the 12th-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, explaining how its newfangled Internet of Things... 2 min read →
Wei Zhou, the chief financial officer of Binance, believes two main factors will drive the mainstream adoption of crypto in the long-term. Solid cryptocurrency exchange infrastructure that increases the ease of purchasing cryptocurrency and... 4 min read →
Last month an independent crypto researcher who goes by the name, Hasu, posted an article exploring some of the most prevalent concerns users have with crypto exchange behemoth BitMEX, one of which is that the... 4 min read →
According to the WHO, 3.8 billion people lack access to essential health services. For 100 million people worldwide, the cost of health care pushes them below the extreme poverty line, forcing them to survive... 5 min read →
According to blockchain, crypto, and smart contracts pioneer Nick Szabo, the traditional finance sector has destroyed its tradition and has implemented inappropriately complex policies to limit the public’s access to money. “Traditional’ finance has... 3 min read →
On Nov. 9, the Litecoin (LTC) news site litecoin.com reported one of the highest transactions to date on the LTC network, valued at 1,159,005.90779568LTC, or roughly $62M USD. Aside from the sheer amount of money... 2 min read →
The advent of cryptocurrency backed loans will have profound ramifications on the crypto markets. Although several exchanges and credit companies have tried to enter the space, none of them have achieved market dominance. The... 5 min read →
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance launches altcoin research lab. The lab will focus on analyzing the investment potential of projects and sharing this information with the general public. The Launch of Binance Research Binance launched... 2 min read →
A fake EOS wallet app on the Google Play store has been stealing cryptocurrency. EOS developers took to Twitter Thursday morning to warn the community. A Reasonable Facsimile EOS RIO is an independent software... 2 min read →
Headmaster Lei Hua has been fired from his job at a school in Hunan, China, after a total of nine mining rigs were found stealing his school’s electricity to mine Ethereum, the BBC reported... 2 min read →
Pure Bit, a cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea, has allegedly pulled an exit scam, disappearing with more than $30 million worth of user funds. On Nov. 9, as BlockchainROK, a trusted news source in... 3 min read →
Allegations that Venezuela’s Petro cryptocurrency is all hot air hasn’t stopped President Nicolas Maduro from announcing a special exchange period for the Petro, and that he’ll be presenting it to the Organization of the... 2 min read →
