A recently published U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) slide describes alarming recommendations on how tax agents should deal with digital currency users who are not paying taxes. The slide recommends that agents question crypto users' friends an
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro ordered the country's leading bank, Banco de Venezuela, to accept the nation's cryptocurrency, the Petro at all of its branches, the country's Finance Ministry tweeted on July 4.
Bitcoin and the wider cryptocurrency market has been surging recently, pushed on by iPhone maker Apple and social media giant Facebook's newfound interest in bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, though some are concerned the bubble might have burst this wee
CashShuffle allows you to make your Bitcoin Cash non-traceable. You can stay anonymous with this easy-to-use software. Roger Ver walks you through the steps of using CashShuffle.
President Trump has never been a fan of the strong dollar. And after beating around the bush for months by demanding a 50 bp rate cut and more QE from the Fed, it seems the president is now explicitly calling on the US to artificially weaken the gree
Venezuela is being crushed by staggering hyperinflation as a sharply divisive political crisis has the economy in ruins. Some are seeking refuge in alternatives to the national currency, like foreign fiat and crypto. The situation also calls into que
Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek was, as he says in the 1990 introduction to his Denationalization of Money: The Argument Refined, one of the chief "gold bugs" of the 20th century. And he reminded us, so long as politicians want to control money, gold-b
So, imagine there's this place. You hang out there all the time. Your friends and family are there. It's got neighborhoods, both big and small. There are businesses there, you get most of your mail there in the form of digital messages.
It's the season of travel and if you want to surprise someone with a trip, you can now do it using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin cash (BCH). Flightgiftcard.com is a Dutch website that allows you to order airline vouchers and send them to your frien
Facebook Inc. () was hours away from the formal announcement of its ambitious foray into financial services, but French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire was already broadcasting his discontent.
By CCN Markets: TASS, a major news agency in Russia wholly owned by the federal government, has reported that Russia will not legalize Libra, merely days after its highly anticipated announcement.
China-Russia bilateral trade was US$24.2 billion in the first quarter of 2019, according to Chinese customs. This was up 30 percent over the first quarter of 2018. China has become Russia's largest trade partner with about 14 percent of payments in
Facebook's ambitious plan for a virtual currency has the potential to disrupt the way people store, spend and send money and open up new business opportunities for the world's leading social network.
If you need to regularly cover fiat payments but prefer to use your digital assets, a platform like Piixpay can be very helpful. The payment provider allows you to use cryptocurrencies to pay invoices, bills and make other recurring payments to recip
Remember that layer two scaling solution they promised for Bitcoin back in the day? Does anyone know what happened to it? It feels like we've been waiting for a finished Lightning Network longer than Mt. Gox victims have been awaiting restitution.