India’s supreme court heard the crypto case on Thursday, starting with the arguments by the counsel for the Reserve Bank of India...

Blockstream reps have long been pushing for full implementation of the perpetually-delayed Lightning Network as the main solution for BTC...

In this roundup, we cover an exceptionally busy week for crypto regulations around the globe. We start our coverage with the U.S. Virtual...

Remember Polkadot? It’s the multi-chain network that raised $145 million in 2017 and hasn’t been seen since. But unlike many...

A group of Bitcoin Cash mining pool operations have decided to help fund BCH infrastructure development. On January 22, Btc.top founder...

The global markets company Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has seen considerable demand since launching its options contracts in the...

Former bank employees have received bonuses worth millions of euros in an illegal trading scheme that also involved a tax lawyer,...

India’s supreme court spent all day on Wednesday hearing extensive arguments from both the counsel representing crypto exchanges and...

After a spate of big names parting ways with the Libra Association late last year such as Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, and Ebay, British...

A new presidential decree in Uzbekistan envisages the introduction of tax exemptions for income obtained from operations involving crypto...

While people have watched the BTC network surpass 100 exahash per second (EH/s), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has been steadily gathering hashrate...

There’s been a lot of buzz in the space recently about the importance of user experience. Kim Dotcom’s proclamation that...

On January 17, the UK tax agency Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) published a job opportunity for a private contractor to...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has confirmed that cryptocurrency is not banned in India. During the latest supreme court hearing of the...

Consistently among the top digital assets in the world by market cap, Bitcoin Cash is accepted by most crypto service providers and the...

A Centre of Excellence in Blockchain Technology has been inaugurated by Indian Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in Bengaluru. It will...

The number of stores that accept cryptocurrencies such as BTC and BCH is growing. But while such stores will accept bitcoin alongside...

Bitcoin.com is releasing the open source SLP Indexer Server for validating Simple Ledger Protocol tokens as part of its commitment to the...

On January 17, the BCH developer known as Acidsploit announced the launch of the highly anticipated Cashfusion alpha. Interested parties...

The crypto space can be hard to break into for those unfamiliar with the jargon, lingo, and foundational knowledge taken for granted by...

There’s a new concept called Powswap that lets people speculate on hashrate in order to hedge against price volatility. Powswap was...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has authorized the opening of a casino at a luxury hotel in Caracas where bets must be placed...

A prolonged legal battle, which may hold the key to XRP’s future, has been extended again. The class action lawsuit alleges that...

Bestcasinbonussen.nl is up to date with the Bitcoin casino industry, delivering news about Bitcoin casinos available in the Netherlands...

The Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast is a relatively new program that’s just released its fourth episode. The hosts, known as Frank...

Bitcoin Cash has been added to Mecon Cash’s M.Pay platform which is integrated with over 13,000 ATMs in South Korea. By making...

Last September, Bobby Lee, the former CEO of China’s first cryptocurrency exchange BTCC revealed his new business venture Ballet, a...

Peter Schiff hates Bitcoin almost as much as bitcoiners hate Schiff. The gold bug makes a point of dissing the cryptocurrency whenever he...

A bill has been introduced in the U.S. state of Oklahoma to establish a new type of state-chartered financial institution that will be...

The Securities Commission Malaysia has published the country’s guidelines on digital assets which set out the regulatory framework...

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, an intergovernmental body with 36 member countries, has formed “a...

On January 17, Bitcoin.com CEO Stefan Rust introduced the company’s new SLP minting application. The Bitcoin.com Mint is a...

During the last year, the cryptoconomy has picked up pace after a drawn out crypto winter. When market prices were low and startups were...

Canadian regulators have issued new guidance determining when current securities legislation applies to operations conducted by...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and over 50 delegations involved in crypto supervision recently gathered to discuss how to regulate...

India’s supreme court heard the crypto case in detail over three consecutive days this week. In addition to intense arguments...

There’s a certain irony in the smallest market on the darknet being named Monopoly. With less than 150 listings, the monero-friendly...

On Friday, The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) convened for its final day with a great deal of well known speakers from the...

The Russian Federation has a new prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, with a track record of statements regarding cryptocurrencies and an...

Can any stablecoin topple tether? In 2019, the answer to that question was an emphatic ‘No.’ Despite a string of stablecoins...

Bithumb, a major crypto exchange in South Korea, has taken the country’s tax authority to court over a “groundless” tax...

On January 16, The North American Bitcoin Conference (TNABC) opened its doors at the James L. Knight Center in Miami for its seventh year....

A new political force is being born in Russia out of the country’s tech business circles. The idea has been conceived by...

In an era of unprecedented global surveillance, it is unreasonable to expect the blockchain world to be any different. It is perfectly...

Thanks to the EU’s most recent money laundering directive, a small business called Post-a-coin, which sold cute postcards pre-loaded...

U.S.-based Silvergate Bank has launched a bitcoin collateralized loan product with Bitstamp as its launch partner. The crypto exchange...

Developers from Bitcoin ABC, Bitcoin Unlimited, BCHD, Bitcoin Verde and other teams, are meeting today to continue the building of the...

Establishing a “national mining pool” has been declared a priority in Uzbekistan. Miners who join the pool will enjoy lower...

During the last few days, cryptocurrency participants have been discussing the notorious Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit as new developments...

January 14 was the best trading day of the year for many cryptocurrencies, which saw double or even triple-digit percentage gains. It was...

The SEC has issued an alert to investors regarding initial exchange offerings. This warning is not an official statement on regulatory...

Over the last couple of years. the former lead maintainer of the Bitcoin Core (BTC) repository Gavin Andresen has been quiet in regards to...

India’s supreme court spent all day hearing arguments against the crypto banking ban by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on...

The global crypto exchanges industry continues to consolidate as some smaller players bow out and the big players try to gobble up as much...

Blockchain casino Fairspin paid out more than 40,000 ETH to players in its first full year of operation. The casino was founded in late...

Global debt records were broken in 2019, but that likely won’t be the end of such ominous economic milestones, the Institute of...

On January 13, the New York Federal Reserve gave $60.7 billion to eligible private financial institutions by leveraging U.S. Treasurys and...

Cryptocurrency mining develops rapidly like any high tech sector. Improvements in the hardware and auxiliary systems make it possible to...

Digital currency markets are seeing significant gains this week as the entire market capitalization gained $28 billion in the last seven...

Whales are mega-rich traders who inhabit the depths of the crypto seas. Theirs is a realm of dark pools, hidden order books, OTC deals,...

In this roundup, we cover EU-wide crypto regulations and individual countries’ new digital asset rules including Austria and the...

With over 21,000 kiosks in the U.S., Coinstar is a popular automated service for those who want to turn their fiat coins into paper cash....

Understanding a complex subject should be easier with access to educational materials. With blockchain and CBDC now part of...

The news that Brooklyn Nets star Spencer Dinwiddie was to roll out an Ethereum-based investment vehicle for his own contract took the NBA...

On January 13, the online bullion marketplace Onegold announced the launch of a new mobile application so customers can buy, sell or...

According to a new research report published by Digital Asset Data, more than 10 million BTC has been sitting dormant for a whole year....

Japanese Minister Naokazu Takemoto and Philippine Cabinet member Raul Lambino of Crypto Valley of Asia recently met to discuss Asian...

European crypto companies are finding themselves in a changing regulatory environment. The new realities they have to deal with stem from...

If you are planning to start a new career this year, or just improve your value in the jobs market, the best thing that you can do is...

On January 8, China-based blockchain security firm Peckshield published its “2019 Global Digital Asset AML Research Report”...

White House Market (WHM) is an ultra-secure darknet market (DNM). It disallows Javascript, enforces PGP throughout, admins key sign every...

Cointext CTO Vin Armani has a lot to say. The multi-faceted content creator, voluntaryist philosopher, and developer in the Bitcoin Cash...

2019 saw significant bitcoin derivatives action from firms like CME Group and Bakkt. This year, demand for CME’s bitcoin futures...

Several regulators in the U.S. and Europe have made cryptocurrency among their top priorities this year. The Securities and Exchange...

The countries of Central and Eastern Europe, a diverse region sometimes referred to as the ‘Second World,’ are at different...

Ifinex Inc, parent firm of Bitfinex, finds its ongoing legal troubles further complicated as a November lawsuit has been withdrawn by the...

During the first month of the new year, the research firm Tokeninsight published its “Mining Industry Annual Research Report,”...

A new research report from BTC Peers has ranked 145 crypto news websites for quality. It analyzes scores of benchmarks including average...

10 days after the Tulip Trust expired, new court filings have appeared in the billion-dollar Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit. One document...

The European Union’s 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive mandates that member states start regulating crypto assets by Jan. 10....

A new report shows that North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has adapted and evolved new techniques since initial attacks, and are using phony...

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has pledged to invest roughly $8 million into the Busan blockchain zone. The region was...

On November 21, the Chinese mining rig manufacturer Canaan Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO) sale of $90 million worth of...

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Are you developing a blockchain game that could be the next Cryptokitties or even take blockchain games mainstream, if only you had some...

As anyone who has ever sought to lend crypto will attest, significant variance exists in the APR offered to lenders. Indeed, the spectrum...

The latest global debt wave is the largest in the past five decades, the World Bank has acknowledged in a new report. The international...

The Philippines has a “Crypto Valley of Asia,” an initiative of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority, the government agency...

Since the creation of the Silk Road, authorities have waged a war against the online drug trade with a wave of surveillance and...

2019 was a good year for dapps and a particularly good one for Tron and Ethereum. That’s the upshot of Dapp Review’s new...