Featured Last week, South Korean regulators said they would ban all initial coin offerings. They are imposing a “prohibition on all forms...

On September 11thh, Coinone, South Korea’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange behind Bithumb and Korbit, launched the first offline...

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Interview This past August news.Bitcoin.com reported on a ‘mystery miner’ from Hong Kong who helped jump-start the Bitcoin Cash...

Robots can come in many different shapes and sizes. Moreover, they can be deployed for many different reasons, including offering relief...

Oracle executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison Oracle By Becky Peterson Blockchain technology is no longer just for startups. Now even...

Coinbase is an exchange and wallet service provider a lot of users have grown to like over the past few years. At the same time, there are...

Featured The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating Coinbase for an Ethereum “flash crash” that occurred in June. During...

Services Remix Point, a Japanese company engaged in a number of energy-related businesses, has recently launched a new electricity service...

Markets and Prices Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Tidebit is actively seeking to attract Chinese investors who have been forced from...

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Mining Two government officials of the Crimean Council of Ministers were caught mining bitcoin using government computers and were...

Emerging Markets The Nigerian person-to-person (P2P) bitcoin exchange, Bitkoin.Africa, launched on October 1st. The exchange currently...

Featured Ross Ulbricht attorney, Paul Grant, refers to stipulation of federal government seizure as a “sad day for justice” and a “boon...

Finance This week, Avanza Bank, Sweden’s largest online stockbroker with over 600,000 customers is now providing clients with the ability...

News The global bitcoin payment service provider, Bitpay, has released a progress report that details the company’s payment volume has...

Jetpacks are often considered to be a thing of the future. In fact, we may never see consumer-grade jetpacks in our lifetime. Boeing...

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Over the past few months, we have come across a few reasons to grow weary of the Tether project. After the team created millions of USDT...

Fintech After the Chinese crackdown on ICO’s and exchanges, investors are eyeing decentralized platforms to trade bitcoin and other...

 by Marco Santori Marco Santori is a fintech lawyer based in New York City where he leads the blockchain technology team at Cooley LLP. In...

Wirex, a London-headquartered company providing personal banking and financial services to bitcoin users, has announced plans to support...

Foto: © Philipp Zinniker Regulation Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, FINMA, is invited by the Crypto Valley Association to...

Finance Sources close to the American multinational finance company, Goldman Sachs, has revealed the firm is looking into creating a new...

Featured Officials recently transferred alleged Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht to a maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado. The...

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Regulation This week a few popular Chinese bitcoin exchanges, BTCC, Bitkan, and Viabtc, shut down shop and stopped cryptocurrency trading...

News In the past bitcoiners could purchase a machine called the “Ghost Gunner 2,” from a Texas company called Defense Distributed (DD) led...

Team of former Saxo Bank employees lead by Dmitrij Pruglo, professional equity and fx trader, announced the creation of Copy-trading...

In 2017, the gaming world is expected to generate close to $110 billion in revenue worldwide with 2.3 billion people playing games every...

How should you position your solar company in light of the Suniva/SolarWorld trade case? To address that question, I recently participated...

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Any reason to use facial recognition technology will always be scrutinized by privacy advocates. Especially now that Facebook plans to...

Matthew Nicely (left) is a lawyer with Hughes Hubbard and Reed representing the US Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) against...

California, once considered a leader in community solar, has struggled to implement Senate Bill 43 (SB-43), which mandated the creation of...

Economics Local media has reported that Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, intends to meet with New Zealand financial regulators to...

The worldwide fintech sector is booming as we speak. More and more startups are trying to compete as a way to gain traction in a specific...

The Russian telecommunications company Rusteleport has begun the process of an ICO for Teleport – its new project. Teleport is an...

In the traditional financial industry, it is expensive and inefficient to process international transactions and settle contracts with...

News Last summer, we reported on the charitable outreach, Sean’s Outpost, being threatened with an eviction notice by Pensacola, Florida...

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News The Russian Ministry of Finance has proposed adding cryptocurrency to the country’s financial literacy strategy, which was jointly...

IoT, its current uses and the options it will offer in conjunction with blockchain technology. First came the personal computers, which at...

Isle of Man startup Pundi X Labs is looking to bring cryptocurrencies to brick-and-mortar businesses across Southeast Asia with a new...

Altcoins The controversy surrounding Tether continues, despite the company’s release of an “internal memorandum regarding consulting...

Interview This week news.Bitcoin.com chatted with Ian Freeman, co-host of the libertarian political talk show Free Talk Live (FTL). The...

In life, there are certain topics most people would rather avoid discussing. When it comes to performing surgery on human embryos, a lot...

Regulation Matt Corallo, “a long-time developer of bitcoin”, posted a comment to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission...

Smart contracts are a major technological breakthrough that will affect our society substantially. So far, interfacing with said smart...

Emerging Markets According to various reports, the African country of Zimbabwe is suffering from severe economic hardships similar to the...

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Featured The unrecognized territory of Transnistria is reported to be seeking investment from Russian mining entrepreneurs to establish...

Markets and Prices The price of bitcoin has been trending higher since our last markets update and is currently hovering around the $4,275...

Featured Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, warns central bankers that bitcoin is rising. She has told them not to discount digital...

Regulation On the 28th September, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) published a document providing regulatory...

Everyone will agree Elon Musk is a visionary who isn’t afraid of throwing some wild ideas around. One of his new projects would...

Although most people would not expect it, the Trump administration is pretty keen on blockchain technology. In fact, the team purports to...

Featured The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations, Chapter 1 (part 1).by Wendy McElroy Section One: The Trusted Third...

The number of use cases for blockchain technology is virtually limitless. Although most efforts focus on the financial sector in one way...

Regulation On September 29th 2017, the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) charged an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) operator with...

Regulation Chinese media outlet Jinse.com has reported that laws governing the use of virtual currencies in China will be enacted on...

Interview Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on a planned hard fork on the Bitcoin network slated for October 25 called Bitcoin Gold...

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Emerging Markets Japan’s Finacial Services Agency (FSA) announced last Friday that they are endorsing 11 different cryptocurrency...

News According to public records, another company has filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission to create two bitcoin...

Conferences The financial ecosystem is changing radically. The Cayman Investment Forum  recognizes this, and hopes to address concerns...

Russia and the United States are not on friendly terms much of the time. There has historically been a lot of political tension between...

News GMO Coin, a subsidiary of the Japanese Internet services giant GMO, has enabled bitcoin cash and ether trading, alongside bitcoin. To...

Snovio, a lead generation and sourcing platform, announces its Token Sale starting 3 October 2017 to raise $15 million to make a pivot...

By Alexei Koseffakoseff France and the United Kingdom are doing it. So is India. And now one lawmaker would like California to follow...

Regulation Ukrainian lawmakers previously said that the legal status of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could be determined by last...

Human capital is the hardest thing to define. For the talented, it's not easy to know what one's talents are worth, or who might need...

Debates surrounding SegWit2x are heating up as the proposed activation deadline draws closer. Although a lot of people have no love lost...

Emerging Markets This week, the relatively new India-based cryptocurrency exchange, Koinex, announced the listing of bitcoin cash (BCH)...

 by Rachel Rose O'Leary South Korea's financial regulator has prohibited domestic companies and startups from participating in initial...

Image credit: Bitcoin, cryptocurrency via PixabayEleven digital currency companies in Japan have been granted a Virtual Currency Exchange...

Regulation The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has told leading gold fund management firm VanEck that it will not review the...

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Featured North Korea, a nation that has previously been accused of mining bitcoin in order to flout sanctions, is suspected to have hacked...

In an interview with the MIT Technology Review, Rod Garratt, an economics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara,...

Regulation South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has announced that all initial coin offerings (ICOs) will be banned in the country....

Mining Miami-based mining and high-performance computing company, The Future of Mining, is building a major data center in Sweden. The...

Electric vehicles are of great importance to our society these days. Not only are we seeing more developments in the world of electric...

Central banks will not give up on their plans to create national digital currencies anytime soon. Although this concept remains highly...

Last Friday, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled in favor of Suniva and SolarWorld, having found that they suffered injury...

Image credit: Tokyo, Japan, PixabayJapan’s financial regulator the Financial Services Agency (FSA) and various financial institutions are...

The privacy-focused cryptocurrency zcash has had a wild 24 hours. At press time, the zcash-US dollar (ZEC/USD) exchange rate had reached a...

While there were many attempts to create decentralized exchanges in the early days of bitcoin trading, Bisq (formerly Bitsquare) is one of...

With all cryptocurrencies seemingly going through a recovery process, one would expect great things to happen. That is not always the...