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...

On January 7, digital preservation researcher David Rosenthal published an overview of BTC’s Lightning Network (LN) which claims LN...

Hotmine, a company based in Ukraine which engineers home appliances for crypto enthusiasts, is not new to mining equipment development....

The European Central Bank (ECB) wants to play an active role in the field of digital currency, said President Christine Lagarde. As the...

The Indian state of Kerala is actively exploring using blockchain technology to improve a wide range of existing systems, including...

As Bitcoin is adopted by more and more traditional financial institutions, and becomes regulated by governments worldwide, the question of...

Before the emergence of crypto exchanges and trustless multi-sig, early bitcoiners saw the need for an escrow service – a mediator...

While American President Donald Trump wages war with Iran, the U.S. Federal Reserve has continued to inject fresh capital into the hands...

The city of Rockdale, Texas is attracting attention again, similar to the interest the region saw back in the fifties when the Alcoa...

The cryptocurrency community is again showing its commitment to support charitable goals around the world. Binance, the most active...

A South Korean committee directly under the president has recommended several measures to the government that will make cryptocurrency...

Lebanese citizens have been dealing with economic hardship, as the country’s central bank imposed customer withdrawal limits last...

The publication of crypto exchange Kraken’s 2019 Transparency Report has provoked discussion about the scale of government...

The team behind one of the most active tokens in the SLP ecosystem is launching a crowd sale to fund the development of a new sports...

Ousted Bitmain co-founder Micree Zahn took to Weibo on Monday to speak out against a reported Bitmain “personnel optimization...

On January 6, digital currency markets saw decent gains as the entire crypto market capitalization surpassed the $200 billion mark at 3:50...

In this roundup, we cover several crypto-related actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York...

According to the Venezuelan government, millions of families have used the petro, the country’s national digital currency, to pay...

Bravio is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Software Management & Content Licencing Agreement with LFE Group Holdings...

Selling things for bitcoin online doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, it shouldn’t be, given the decentralized nature and low...

Memes are the fuel that powers the cryptoconomy. Exploitable image macros, shareable acronyms, and obscure in-jokes are the stuff that...

On January 5, Bitcoin.com’s Executive Chairman Roger Ver introduced a bitcoin cash (BCH) point-of-sale (PoS) merchant solution...

Turkish authorities, alarmed by the spread of cryptocurrencies in the country, are reportedly ramping up efforts to introduce greater...

In mid-December, Intel revealed that the company expects to design 2nm and 1.4 nm semiconductors by 2029. During the same timeframe,...

Many bold predictions about bitcoin’s price have been made over the years, but tech entrepreneur John McAfee’s 2017 claim that...

China now has more than 33,000 registered companies claiming to use blockchain technology in their businesses, according to the...

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Stablecoins provide much sought after stability in the volatile crypto markets. They are sometimes even said to affect the price of...

While a number of software developers work on the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) framework, SLP devs are still looking for other...

On Saturday, the notorious John McAfee revealed a new project he’s launching that aims to tokenize all 535 members of U.S. Congress...

Travala, the online platform that allows crypto users to book hotel rooms in thousands of destinations around the world, has registered...

India’s former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg has shared his views on the future of cryptocurrency, both in India and...

Telegram Group, the company behind the TON blockchain project, has reportedly refused to share information with the SEC showing how much...

The Bitcoin Cash community was recently introduced to two new Telegram bots that use Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) tokens within the...

Digital currency influencers have started an auction to raise money for Ross Ulbricht who is serving a double life sentence for his...

Funding is a prerequisite for any new crypto project, but with IEOs likely to play a reduced role in 2020, where will the all-important...