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...

Fintech The Middle East island country of Bahrain is becoming interested in bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Their government hopes to be on...

Finance Last year, legacy exchange CME group provided a bitcoin price index with the intent of adding bitcoin futures. However, they...

Emerging Markets This week the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem is seeing further infrastructure growth as wallet providers, merchants and...

Markets and Prices Peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin trading on Localbitcoins established a new global weekly all-time high for the week of the...

Earlier this week, Dunamu, the operator of Kakao’s KakaoStock, announced the launch of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, UpBit which...

Auctus, a smart contracts-based blockchain platform, is targeting the $36.4 trillion pension market using the Ethereum network and its...

Regulation The Russian Deputy Finance Minister told reporters on Tuesday that the authorities decided not to introduce cryptocurrency...

Regulation Macau’s financial regulatory, the Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM), has issued a statement prohibiting the territory’s...

There are many things that make Scotland the great country that it is, and part of its identity is its Scotch whisky.In its early rebel...

When it comes to allowing robots into our daily lives, there are a few possible scenarios. Some people may use them for carnal pleasures,...

A lot of mobile users are well aware that there are plenty of threats affecting the Android ecosystem right now. One of the newer threats...

Regulation Recently news.Bitcoin.com published an article on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) upcoming October investor...

Featured Breadwallet just announced they changed their name to Bread. They also redesigned their wallet interface and added new features....

Despite noticeable gains in the wider cryptocurrency market, the price of dash is mildly bid today. At press time, the dash-US (DASH/USD)...

Bahrain is closely looking at digital currencies. According to Khalid Al Rumaihi, the chief executive of the Economic Development Board of...

Regulation South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and Korea Communications Commission reportedly announced that they will conduct...

News This week Kolin Burges of the website “Mtgoxprotest,” wrote an interesting new blog post called “Who will get our 200,000 bitcoins?”...

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Technology Founded by Abraham Cambridge and co-founder Larry Temlock in 2016, The Sun Exchange (Sunex) is an innovative company seeking to...

Regulation The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, has stated that bitcoin does not fall under the regulatory...

  By Erik Schatzker He is said to aim to raise $500 million after Fortress losses ‘Largest bubble of our lifetimes,’ he says of digital...

The exchange platform, EXMO, has announced that they will be holding an ICO to attract additional investments to further develop their...

Regulation According to reports, a few banks in Singapore have ceased doing business with several startups that operate with...

Quantum computing has become a booming industry over the past few years. Although a lot of research still has yet to be conducted, there...

By Michael Irving Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have determined how long it takes electrons to quantum tunnel(Credit:...

by Sam Bourgi Bitcoin (BTC/USD) prices are grinding higher this week on renewed optimism that the blockchain will overcome China’s latest...

Ransomware developers have to come up with new tricks and features every now and then. That is much easier said than done, however....

News Over the past few weeks, many Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters wondered when the peer-to-peer trading platform Localbitcoins would...

Corporate procurement of utility-scale solar PV is on the rise, but there’s opportunity for corporations to leverage recent market...

Although initial coin offerings have become a lot more popular over the past six months, they are not necessarily decentralized. All sales...

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Finney smartphone, Sirin LabsSirin Labs, the maker of the US$16,000 Solarin Android smartphone, has unveiled its second line of devices...