Initial coin offering (ICO) fundraising crossed another significant milestone this month, racing past the $3 billion mark for the year despite increased attention from regulatory agencies across the world.
Recently, Russia announced that it will be unleashing a CryptoRuble, just a week after Vladimir Putin strongly criticized Bitcoin and other private cryptocurrencies.
Vitalik Buterin has spoken out and said that it's unlikely that central banks will have the ability to create their own digital currencies...The 23-year-old Russian national was speaking earlier this week at the three-day Swell event in Toronto, ho
The crypto world is moving fast, and thanks to the increased mainstream attention and respect that the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum have drawn to the industry it seems now like cryptosphere innovation is reaching a tipping point.
NAFTA negotiators said they "successfully completed" Round 4 of their discussions... adding that talks will be extended past the end-2107 deadline (odd definition of success?).
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IMF head, Christine Lagarde, is fully complicit with the United Nations, Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Fintech and hence, Technocracy. Technocrats have created a huge moral hazard that favors the destruction of Capitalism and Free Enterpris
The senior government official also claimed the cryptoruble will be developed and issued 'quickly' by the Russian state. While details of the technology used for the cryptocurrency remain scarce, Nikiforov added the cryptocurrency cannot be mined
When we started building ShapeShift in the Spring of 2014, we made an uncommon assumption at the time: that blockchains and (especially) the tokens built upon them were going to expand out in all directions.
San Francisco-based company Coinbase just announced they will allow customers to buy bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin instantly with bank accounts. Each customer can buy up to $25,000 with this service. Previously, people could only conduct instant pu
A cryptocurrnecy hard fork is a software upgrade that introduces a new rule to the network that isn't compatible with the older software. You can think of a hard fork as an expansion of the rules. A new rule that allows block size to be 2MB instead
China's position on cryptocurrency became even blurrier this week after a government official implied that Beijing is considering minting its own state-run digital currency.
Digital currency could quite possibly be transformative, providing a paradigm shift in the world's interactions with money and finance. As Jihan Wu, CEO of Bitmain, recently blogged:
On the back of (unconfirmed) rumors suggesting China may back down from its harsh stance of ICOs and crypto exchanges following this week's National Congress, the price of Bitcoin soared overnight, testing near $5900 before falling back a little this
As cannabis becomes legalized for medical and recreational use in more states and countries, the consumer cannabis industry becomes a major growth opportunity for growers, processors, distributors and retailers. The team of entrepreneurs behind the d
The bitcoin price soared past $5,200 on Thursday to set a new all-time high and silence once and for all claims that China's initial coin offering and bitcoin exchange ban would send the markets into a death spiral. The majority of other cryptocurr
Some people are very passionate about bitcoin, and then some people are really big believers in the cryptocurrency revolution. One such person is 39-year-old, Didi Taihuttu, a Netherlands native that's been selling everything he owns including his
The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss cryptocurrencies. It was attended by top regulators including the central bank governor, her deputy, and the finance minister. While Putin acknowledged the
Latin American micro-lending startup Ripio Credit Network concluded its initial coin offering (ICO) presale, raising $31 million from accredited investors. Following the public Ripio ICO, the startup hopes to have raised a total of about $40 million.
The bitcoin price rose another 3% on Monday, bringing it within $20 of the $4,600 threshold and enabling it to raise its total market share above 50%. The ripple price joined bitcoin in its ascent and extended its rally by another 10%. Unfortunately,
The local government in Dubai has officially launched its own cryptocurrency called emCash, according to announcements by local news media outlets. The cryptocurrency would be used for payment of governmental and nongovernmental services.
There are a few rocky months left in the year for Bitcoin, but experts are starting to predict that the digital currency could still rally another 40 percent to end on $6,000 for the year.