Danish Yasin

Exchanges are currently the most important players in the crypto field. They manage millions in crypto and fiat currency every day, and control the assets of a myriad of users. Their power and influence on the market is seemingly too much sometimes. Exchanges represent to this day the centralized authority that Bitcoin, and the other cryptocurrencies that followed, tried so hard to remove. How can we contain their influence?

A crypto airdrop offers an attractive opportunity to earn some free tokens from your favorite project. But not all ICO airdrops are equal and some may offer better rewards, while conversely, some may be frauds.

ICO drops are a good way to get started with cryptocurrency. You can practically invest in a project, without actually investing money into it. Basically, a crypto airdrop is an event, in which a project gives out free tokens to community members. This is seen as a good marketing strategy, because it attracts more participants to a project and allows them to have a stake in it.

You’re curious about the tools that you may require to get the free tokens. In the following few paragraphs, we’ll explain all the tools that may be involved in an ICO airdrop.

The history of international trade and its current conditions shows that only large companies could receive all of the benefits and leave the smaller ones on the side of the large road. That's about to change.

Slice is creating an opportunity for high value investors in the crypto market to invest in real estate in Manhattan with their crypto assets.

A user apparently tried to buy $20 trillion worth of bitcoin when a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange witnessed a bug and the price of a single Bitcoin went to $0. Seven users tried to abuse this bug in the system, however, all of their transactions were cancelled later on.

Bitcoin is the world's first ever cryptocurrency, which has witnessed enormous growth during the past couple of years. A group of researchers analyzed the possibility of making short-term predictions of bitcoin's exchange rate against the US dollar.

Bitcoins have become a powerful trading asset, currently worth over $10,000. It has attracted all kinds of investors from all over the world. Unsurprisingly, it has also caught the attention of criminals, who exploit its decentralized and relatively anonymous nature for their own benefits.

Another company has decided to gain in on the crypto hype by announcing the launch of a blockchain based platform to revolutionize the skincare industry. EpigenCare uses epigenetic techniques and the blockchain technology to create personalized skincare products.

The FCC notified a bitcoin miner that he has to stop his mining operations as it is disrupting T-mobile's signals in the vicinity. The FCC's “direction finding techniques” revealed the cause of this interference to be an Antminer S5 mining rig.

Hardforking is an interesting concept in the world of blockchains. Bitcoin's blockchain has gone through many hardforking processes lately. Developers carry out hardforks to create interesting new coins with new characteristics. Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Bitcoin Diamond (BCD), Super Bitcoin (SBTC), and Bitcoin Private (BTCP) are the most important hardforks to date.

HealthCombix has just partnered with NuCypher to launch a blockchain based system that will improve information sharing in the healthcare industry. The ICO is expected to take place by the end of this year, or in the beginning of 2019.

The Litecoin blockchain was successfully hardforked for the first time ever, leading to the creation of a new cryptocurrency "Litecoin Cash". The new coin has no affiliation with Litecoin's team and is only a fork of their code and blockchain.

Bankera is more than just a traditional cryptocurrency exchange, or a wallet service. Bankera has just acquired the Pacific Private Bank (PPB) in an attempt to become a worldwide all-in-one banking solution.

A sudden twist has just occurred in the South Korean cryptocurrency regulation episode, as a government official, who was responsible for formulating cryptocurrency regulations, was found dead at his home.

An anonymous whale has just invested more than $400 million to buy around 9,600 bitcoins. The news of this purchase is all over the social media and is reflecting how investors are confident that bitcoin has big potential in 2018.

The blockchain technology is revolutionizing every walk of life, even the education sector. ODEM.IO is the latest blockchain based company that aims to provide a revolutionary education platform, facilitating easy learning..

QYKBAR is a new startup that has announced a blockchain-based service. It will basically provide its customers with a cloud based bar, which will allow them to consume their drinks in any of the affiliated bars and pay with crypto.

Hackers have deployed a malware attack on Bitmessage, a Peer-to-Peer communications protocol. In order to protect users wallets and cryptocurrency funds, they are encouraged to download an updated version of the software, as well as change their passwords and keys.

A team of researchers studied the value of technical analysis in predicting bitcoin's future price movements. Simple trading techniques that rely on the moving averages (MAs) were found to be significant in predicting the future of bitcoin price.

Internet of Services or ‘IOS’ is a new blockchain paradigm innovated to particularly solve the scalability issue associated with most cryptocurrencies. IOS is an under-progress blockchain platform, which was developed by a team from Singapore. IOS was launched last year in December and is said to have the potential to process up to 100,000 secure transactions per second.

ICOs helped many companies in raising significant capital last year. The market overtook IPOs as the preferred way to aggregate investments. Globitex is another company that has successfully conducted an ICO, raising more than $12 million.

The blockchain is revolutionizing every walk of life and now, it is even impacting the most important component of our society: mothers. The unique idea came from an existing social platform "Mom.life" that allowed mothers from different parts of the world to interact with each other. Mothers are rewarded with bloom tokens for their contributions to the network.

Leo Chen, a former Microsoft scientist, will be joining LightChain's team of researchers and technical developers. LightChain is the world’s first ever double-tier chain and is dedicated to the development of a new blockchain.

Nuclear scientists at The Federal Nuclear Center in Russia used the facility's supercomputer to illicitly mine bitcoin. The “bungling miners” are now facing a criminal case after getting arrested by competent authorities.

The cryptocurrency market is known for its volatility, and this volatility is often linked to the ever changing regulatory environment of the industry. We bring you a brief overview of how major economic powers from all over the world are reacting to this seemingly new industry.

An Italian cryptocurrency exchange has announced insolvency after $170 million worth of nano tokens were lost from the exchange. The owner of exchange, tweeted that the exchange cannot repay the investors as it only holds $40 million of nano.

Monaco Estate is the latest company that will be accepting cryptocurrency as payment for their services. Investors will enjoy at 10% bonus by purchasing some of the 3,000 tokens available during the presale on May 1, 2018.

Acronis, the provider of data protection solutions, has just announced the launch of Acronis Ransomware Protection tool for Windows. Anyone can use the new tool, which protects against various forms of ransomware including Wannacry cryptoworms.

The publicly listed company Seven Stars Cloud (SSC) has announced that it will be collaborating with Guangzhou Yongkai Industrial Co. Ltd to upgrade the existing Quantum Global Settlement Network. The updated network will support banking settlements of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.

Silver Management Group now offers Cost Basis support for Bitcoin and altcoins to its investors. This will increase the effectiveness of trades and make the whole process more transparent. Silver Management Group provides business and technology solutions for the investment industry.

To secure the blockchains of altcoins, VeriBlock will be offering a security layer that relies on Bitcoin's blockchain. This layer will work on the basis of the Proof-of-Proof (PoP) algorithm, which basically utilizes the blockchain of a superior cryptocurrency to secure the blockchain of another.

The Internet Education Foundation (IEF) conducted a survey on January 25th, in which 886 Americans were polled. The survey concluded that around 44% of Americans would feel "uncomfortable" if they had to accept bitcoin payments. The focus of the survey was on how the recent technological innovation is being accepted by American citizens. The survey mainly discussed issues related to the famous trends of 2017, which are: fake news, democracy, digital security, and cryptocurrency.

ImmVRse is building a platform for VR content creators. The lack of a proper platform for VR content has inhibited the industry's growth. ImmVRse is creating a blockchain based platform that will enable participants to use the ERC20 compliant, IMV tokens for interacting with the platform's application.

The blockchain revolution is here and people are looking for ways to get into the mining business. Look no further, for Newifi 3 is here to help you gather crypto tokens just by sharing your free bandwidth. Newifi 3 is a modern router with all the latest security features which enables you to easily share your free bandwidth.

Huobi, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, launches an unconventional token to stabilize the platform. The huobi tokens were not launched through an ICO and have sold also to users of the exchange's platform.

Tether, the famous dollar-pegged cryptocurrency has dissolved its partnership with Friedman LLP. The latter provided their services to verify the bank statements of Tether. This made Tether a more transparent organization. However, the latest falling out will lead to unforeseeable troubles for Tether.

A cryptocurrency, which is backed by gold, would invite a large number of traders into the crypto market. The latest project of Australia's largest gold mine would take the crypto market to a whole new level. This would be an interesting project, as it has far-reaching consequences for Australian citizens.

Bitcoin Private (BTCP) is the latest hard fork that is planned to take place on Bitcoin's blockchain in the near future. BTCP will provide more privacy to its users. The transactions will still be stored on a public ledger, however, the meta data of users will not be stored onto it.

The Lightning Network (LN) is an innovative solution that can solve Bitcoin's scalability problems. Since its launch in January, the LN has been growing steadily. Not only can it greatly reduce transactions' confirmation times, but it can also render Bitcoin suitable once again for micropayments. Moreover, the LN can facilitate exchange of value across two different blockchains without having to rely on any centralized entities.

The SEC and CFTC have decided to launch a joint effort against cryptocurrency related scams. 2017 has been the year of digital tokens and billions have been made via digital currency related activities. The new effort is being hailed by the community and everyone appreciates the SEC's and CFTC's determination to bust fraudsters.

The essence of Bitcoin is instantaneous payments with next to nothing fees. While this is usually the banner of the Bitcoin community, when one delves deeper into the community, it can be seen that payments through Bitcoin are not actually free and are never processed instantly.

Investors of the now defunct BitConnect are demanding compensation for their losses. The plaintiffs are claiming that they were promised profits but BitConnect failed to meet its promises. BitConnect shut down on January 17th, but it seems like its troubles are yet to be over.

After WaveCrest discontinued its debit card for Bitcoin and altcoins, users can choose from alternatives. These options include epayments, Wagecan, and Worldcore. Epayments is the least expensive and provides the most extensive services.

The US CFTC has started an investigation against My Big Coin and frozen the assets of its owners. The department has pointed out in its investigation that the owners and misrepresented the facts and misused the funds raised from the investors. The owners used the funds of the investors to cover their personal expenses.

After Belarus, Estonia and a number of other countries, Poland has also decided to hop on to the cryptocurrency hype train. The European country has decided to launch a digital token that is pegged to its national currency. Researchers hope that this will pave way for a faster and securer digital alternative of their fiat currency. In order to be able to successfully launch the digital coin, the researchers and development will have to gain the approval of the government.

IRA Bitcoin LLC is offering US citizens the opportunity to use their IRA or 401k retirement funds to invest in cryptocurrencies.

Blockchain, the famous UK-based cryptocurrency exchange has announced that it will start providing its services to users in the US. With more options for cryptocurrency exchanges being made available to users, the healthy competition may encourage exchanges to offer users improved services in order to keep their customer base.

As Kraken became evidently unable to handle the large number of users trading on its platform, they successfully upgraded the platform to keep up with the increased number of traders using the exchange. This followed a downtime of around 48 hours that negatively affected thousands of traders on Kraken's platform.

Ripple has cancelled its partnership with R3, following the recent unprecedented surge of Ripple's price. The partnership was expected to give Ripple access to R3's Consortium of banks. The cancellation was justified by Ripple's executive, Brad Garlinghouse, who stated that R3 knowingly deceived Ripple regarding the contract, as R3 knew that a number of banks that were important to Ripple were about to leave the R3 Consortium

ICOs have taken the financial industry by surprise as billions of dollars have been gathered through them. However, ICOs have their limitations. To solve these problems, Buterin has designed a new approach, which is a combination of Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and the Initial Coin Offering (ICO).

Microsoft stopped accepting bitcoin payments a week ago. However, the ban on bitcoin lasted only a week, after which bitcoin payments were resumed. The company cited “instability” as the reason behind the short-lived ban.

Ripple's digital token, XRP is only one of its many products. Most of the company's focus is on developing solutions for banks and financial institutions in order to be able to replace the SWIFT system with RippleNet.

Long Island Iced Tea Corp has been just re-branded to 'Long Blockchain Corporation' (LBC), following the company board's decision to pursue prospects in the blockchain industry. The company plans on installing the mining gear in the Nordic country to mine bitcoin.

BitMEX has recently sold all of its users’ bitcoin cash holdings for bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash was created back in August as result of a Bitcoin hard fork. BitMex compensated users at a ratio of 1 BCH to 0.1707 BTC.

Kodak has just announced launching its very own cryptocurrency, KodakCoin, which is intended to power Kodak's new platform, the KodakOne platform. Photographers will be able to register their images and license them for appropriate use. In response to the news, Kodak’s stock doubled and closed at $6.80 on Tuesday.

Venezuela is another country choosing to issue a cryptocurrency, as the Venezuelan President has just announced that the country will issue a digital token, called 'petro', that will be backed by the country's oil reserves. Venezuela plans on launching the new tokens in January 2018. Belarus and Estonia are some of the other countries that have decided to use digital tokens in their economy

Ripple's market capital increased by around 4,000% in 2017, and its number of transactions have increased at an exponential rate. However, Ripple’s infrastructure is not strong enough to handle the increase in traffic which it is witnessing during the last couple of months. On December 29th, a number of users temporarily lost their XRP coins. They eventually got their tokens back, and it turns out that the tokens had vanished into thin air for some time.

All bitcoin debit card providers, including Bitwala, Bitpay, Wirex, and Tenpay, have halted all operations of their issued debit cards. It is important to understand that Wirex, TenX, and Bitwala are just providers of the debit card services. However, the cards are issued by WaveCrest, with the permission of the global Fintech company, Visa, which decided to to stop the operations of all non-US digital token debit cards.

In a more recent development, Estonia has also announced that it will be starting a e-residency program. This program will be backed by a blockchain-based digital token, called estcoin. Since the introduction of the concept, many miners have showed their support for an initial coin offering for estcoin.

The new SegWit2x hard fork, SegWIt2x 2.0, team has no relation to the people of the New York Agreement (NYA), who initially decided on performing SegWit2x. The team’s GitHub page is less than a month old and the proclaimed leader of the team has a half empty LinkedIn profile. The team performed the hard fork on block number 501,451 on the 28th of December, but the users can only access the new coins after the 15th of January. It is hard to believe that the team will be able to fulfill all of the promises it is making.

Bitcoin's scalability problems have become very prominent, as transaction fees have exceeded $37, rising from $2 in October 2017. Even though Bitcoin was developed to facilitate microtransactions, it is currently unsuitable for such forms of payments. Consequently, many merchants have recently decided to stop accepting bitcoin payments, including Steam, the online video game store.

Ripple's price has exceeded $3 and its market capital has exceeded for the first time that of ethereum and bitcoin cash. Ripple's market capital is now the second biggest cryptocurrency market capital, accounting for more than $141 billion. As such, ripple has surpassed bitcoin cash and ethereum in terms of market capitalization.

Throughout 2017, the US Dollar witnessed the worst performance since 2003. Oppositely, decentralized cryptocurrencies, led by bitcoin, flourished prominently during the past year, which reflects the public's heightened interest in the economic model of blockchain based currencies. Some researchers believe that the mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrencies is a contributing factor to the decline of fiat currencies, especially the US Dollar.

Ethereum’s price topped $914.83 during Wednesday's trading sessions, with the coin's initial advance beginning at around midnight. The recent surge has boosted Ethereum’s market cap to $86,339,498,573. Ether has posted 17% advance in the last 24 hours. The reason behind the boost is the increased volume of trading in Asia. All notable exchanges, including Coinbene, Binance, and Bithumb, have reported increased volume of trading.

It can be said that 2017 has been the year of digital tokens, as cryptocurrencies have sky rocketed to become one of the most valuable assets.

Buterin expressed that instead of putting their wealth to a productive use, investors are just flaunting it aimlessly. He complained that people in cryptocurrency space are only interested in showing off their wealth and luxuries. “If all that we accomplish is lambo memes and immature puns about ‘sharting,’ then I WILL leave,” Buterin tweeted.

While all eyes were on bitcoin, it seems ripple (XRP) was preparing to end 2017 on a high note. Having started the year at a mere $0.64, ripple’s XRP is currently trading at an impressive average of $2.20. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, grew by 1,400% this year. In contrast, ripple has risen by over a massive 34,700%.

Bitcoin reached its latest record-breaking high of almost $20,000 this month, having started at $1,000 in the beginning of 2017. Other currencies, such as ethereum and litecoin, saw commendable progress as well this year. Although out shined by bitcoin, 2017 was a good year for many coins.

With developers forking the tokens, and larger exchanges refusing to support the resultant currencies, the market is experiencing a void that is being filled by smaller exchanges. When interested users are made to go to lesser-known exchanges, these companies see a rise in their revenues from trading fees.

If the affected users’ complaints are to be believed, then none of the exchange’s clients are safe, even now. There are users who did not lose anything at the time of hack, but are now losing funds. Considering the company’s daily trading volume of $11 million, criticism from users is inevitable.

To tackle this issue, the popular internet browser, Opera, is introducing an anti-mining feature in its 'Opera 50' version. The new feature, called “NoCoin”, will work similar to an AdBlocker. Just as an AdBlocker blocks advertisements from a web page, NoCoin will block suspicious scripts.

Sheila Bair, former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) chair, expressed her opinions on Yahoo! Finance. Although her ideas were similar to those of other financial regulators, her take on cryptocurrency itself is quite interesting.

Bittrex joins the list of prominent digital token exchanges struggling with growth issues. Customers of the popular US-based exchange are unhappy about the company’s inability to handle effective withdrawals.

Digital currencies attract further controversy, as Israel indicates a potential cryptocurrency crackdown. "I think it looks like a bubble, smells like a bubble, acts like a bubble, and feels like a bubble," said Israel Securities Authority Chairman, Shmuel Hauser.

Israel has joined the growing list of countries planning to launch their very own state-backed cryptocurrency. The country’s interest in promoting a digital currency is aimed at minimizing risks of money laundering and tax evasion offenses.

According to SEC's ex-chairman, Harvey Pitt, startups are taking advantage of investors’ lack of adequate digital coin related knowledge. Their investments are based on the fact that “prices seem to be going up”. Pitt further commented that the next year will bring more regulations from the SEC.

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is preparing to move into the virtual token space. The exchange is seeking approval from the SEC to list bitcoin ETFs on its NYSE Arca market. A public document, dated December 19th, details that the exchange has appealed for a rule change in order to launch two bitcoin-tied funds.

In a rough turn of events, the cryptocurrency market went through a severe plunge. When the dust settled, roughly $190 billion worth of market cap was wiped out. Bitcoin and other tokens have suffered significant losses.

Belarus has legalized the cryptocurrency industry. President Alexandar Lukashenko has signed a decree that will make all the cryptocurrency transactions tax-free for the next five years. Belarus will become a tempting location to mine and control cryptocurrencies with these latest provisions.

With Goldman Sachs setting up a trading market for bitcoin, Wall Street finally seems to be welcoming digital currencies. The multinational finance firm will launch the trading desk by the end of June 2018, as reported by Bloomberg.

Bitcoin futures is a new derivative-based technique to trade bitcoin based on future estimations. Following the release of bitcoin futures, someone has bet $1 million that bitcoin cash will reach a value of $50,000 by December, 2018.

The main motive behind the creation of TON is to aid those who live under oppressive regimes. The new platform will probably be an extension of Telegram, a famous messaging application.

Apple Inc. has turned in a new patent application, which uses the blockchain technology to create and verify timestamps. The system operates within a prospective system, according to U.S Patent and Trademark Office.

Two of the biggest exchanges in the world, Tether and Bitfinex, have closed the registration of new accounts. The news came without any warning, with Bitfinex stating that in order to protect professional traders, it will be temporarily shutting down new registrations.

After more than $275 million worth of Ether was frozen last month, Parity Technologies proposed changes in the Ethereum blockchain network to regain access to the locked ether tokens.

The Financial Stability Oversight Board (FSOC) released a report explaining its annual list of potential threats that may destroy the world's economy as we know it. One may expect that cryptocurrency would be placed in the top three of the list. However, to everyone’s surprise, there was no negative mention of cryptocurrency in the list.

Another win for the blockchain industry as Gibraltar, one of UK’s overseas colonies, prepares to launch regulations relating to Blockchain technology. This would make Gibraltar an attractive location for blockchain-based fintech startups.

Predictions show that XRP could reach the price of $10 in the coming year and currently, almost every exchange is facing problems in dealing with the investors and processing their payments due to the amount of transactions that are being processed by their networks.

Bitcoin platinum (BTP), was set to be launched on December 10th, turns out to be a fraud. BTP was initially marketed as a hard fork of the Bitcoin blockchain. The leading South Korean media outlet, JoongAng, exposed Bitcoin Platinum to be a scam to manipulate Bitcoin prices.

Research found that many ICOs provide insufficient information and, therefore, seeing them as ICOs to invest in cannot be the product of logical reasoning. Most of these ICOs count on legislative ambiguities and do not deliver any key legal information regarding their ICO.

It really is confusing when it comes to Bitcoin, since the difference of opinion regarding the cryptocurrency is so stark. Half of the big-time investors claim that bitcoin is the new gold, whereas, others state that it is a speculative bubble that should be avoided.

IBM’s distributed deep learning research has finally paid off. They have developed a new algorithm that has been proven to increase the speed of machine learning processes of training big data sets by up to 10x faster than before.

Bitcoin’s mempool has become bloated with transactions, resulting in slower transactions, higher charges, and numerous other issues. Consequently, Steam has stopped using Bitcoin for payments, as more and more users are complaining about the higher transaction costs.

Japan’s leading financial exchanges announced their plan to launch bitcoin derivatives. The Tokyo Financial Exchange plans on introducing the Bitcoin Futures during the beginning of 2018, after taking a cue from its US competitors.

APMEX is one of the world’s largest precious metal retailers. It is a private company with sales totaling to billions of dollars every year. The company was founded by Scott Thomas, who formed the American Precious Metals Exchange, which later was shortened to APMEX. The company offers more than 10,000 precious metals from various different mints and ships, to more than 80 countries all over the globe.

After hearing the stark statements against bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by Vladmir Putin, one might think that Russia will never accept bitcoin. It is believed that the country will impose regulations against cryptocurrencies and exchanges. However, a positive development has been made in Russia with regards to cryptocurrency.

Scammers filled the vacuum that was formed after the crackdown by Chinese authorities of Bitcoin and Ethereum exchanges. More than 107 fake, ponzi-cryptocurrencies have formed in China. These cryptocurrencies, widely known as altcoins, promise investors with high percentage of guaranteed returns.

Problems related to transactions are not new for the Bitcoin network. A fix for the problem is still not in sight and many are complaining that Bitcoin is deviating from its original purpose, which was to become a globalized yet decentralized currency. Some have suggested that it is becoming more like Gold, a commodity that is valued and traded on a global scale.

Want to sell your old sofa for cryptocurrency? Now you can do so with the help of Craigslist, which has added a new button on their posting details section. This button will indicate whether the seller is okay with accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment.

There have been reports of numerous forks on the Bitcoin network in the recent months. These forks have been called Bitcoin Lightning, Diamond, Rubies, and an array of other names. Bitcoin God will the latest addition to the array of Bitcoin offshoots and will start trading by the symbol of “God” on cryptocurrency exchanges.

The Corda Distributed Ledger platform was launched on AWS marketplace by R3, a startup consortium consisting of more than 70 companies and financial institutions from all over the world. Corda is the first distributed ledger technology (DLT) solution available on AWS.

he acceptance of bitcoin and other altcoins as valid forms of payment are becoming more common. At the Sohn Conference in London, the co-founder of the Sohn Conference Foundation, Evan Sohn, told CNBC that the time is not far when digital currency will replace traditional banknotes.

These new regulations may make the process of buying and owning bitcoin less anonymous for the ordinary UK citizen. However, all is not gloomy, as such a regulation may eventually lead to a greater acceptance of cryptocurrency in governments and other federal institutions.

The newly created cyber unit of US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has found its first suspect. PlexCorps’, a crypo related company hosted their ICO this August in which they promised 13-fold profits to their investors. Through this scheme, the PlexCorps ICO was able to gather more than $15 million from thousands of investors from all over the world.

Last week, IOTA announced that it will be partnering with Microsoft and Samsung to sell data. IOTA CEO, David Sonstebo, stated that data is “the new oil” and the currency aims to become the next generation blockchain.

Bitcoin's value reached $14,000. This accomplishment is unbelievable to some as the digital currency was valued at less than a $1,000 per token a year ago. Bitcoin has seen a meteoric rise in the past 12 months and is showing no signs of stopping.

On November 29th, around 6:30 PM, a ‘flash crash’ hit the cryptocurrencies NEO, OMG, and ETP. The crash lasted a brief 15 minutes, with the tokens losing and regained 90% of their value within the 15 minutes time frame.

Blockchain is taking over the market and is extensively being used and researched in the technology world. It was initially developed for the digital currency, Bitcoin; it is now being used by the tech industry for numerous other purposes. Blockchain owes its success to two features:  transparency and incorruptibility.

We all heard what JP Morgan had to say about bitcoin, and it was not pretty. However, as we may have also observed, bitcoin has gone through a meteoric rise in the past few months. This has led its critics to retract their statements and invest in the cryptocurrency.

A survey revealed that one out of every four millennials would rather invest their hard-earned money in bitcoin than in any other traditional banking schemes. In fact, 24.5% of the 10,000 millennials who participated in the survey favored $1,000 worth of bitcoin over any other forms of financial assets, such as government bonds, stocks, real estate, or gold.

BTC-Hijack, is Bitcoin's team in charge of examining potential threats to the Bitcoin network. The group’s main focus is studying how the network gets affected by internet routing attacks and malicious internet service providers (ISP). Their website has revealed that there are two major threats facing Bitcoin blockchain at the moment.

The project is a part of the government’s plan to implement Blockchain technology across the entire municipal administration of Seoul over the next four years. The application will be focused on the city’s welfare, transportation affairs, traffic, and public safety, among other municipal matters.

Michael Arrington, founder of Techcrunch and a former VC of CrunchFund, announced that he will be forming $100 million cryptocurrency hedge fund. Arrington announced that the hedge fund will be using XRP, the currency of Ripple network to buy different cryptocurrency assets.

Buterin highlighted four of the major problems currently faced by the network: privacy, smart contract safety, consensus safety, and scalability. Developers claim that Ethereum 2.0 will resolve these issues.

Cryptocurrency is the talk of the town these days. It is not surprising that Coinbase, a famous cryptocurrency exchange, has succeeded in gathering more users than the world famous brokerage firm, Charles Schwab.

Bitcoin influencer and personage, Jameson Lopp, conducted an informal survey on twitter in which over 1,600 people participated. According to the result, 7 out of 10 crypto exchangers are facing a delay of about a week or longer for verification and enabling of new accounts.

A recent analysis conducted by Chainalysis found out that almost 50% of the bitcoins in circulation have been lost. Chainalysis actively segmented the Bitcoin into different groups, based on their properties.

American Express was one of the first fintech companies to launch a credit card with RippleNet, the name used by Ripple to define its network of banks and other financial institutions. This move will allow American Express to become one of the leading institution in the blockchain industry.

Bitcoin’s growth rate is unprecedented, and it is breaking all the milestones that were initially set. In 2017 alone, bitcoin's growth rate is almost 1,500% and it has been proven as the most effective investment, returning 10,000 times the initial investment.

While everyone was distracted by Bitcoin’s impressive ride, it seems Ethereum was slowly making significant progress. Data from Truffle has shown that more than 200,000 developers have downloaded the program to build and deploy their own decentralized applications.

The north-west African Kingdom of Morocco has officially banned all virtual transactions, labeling them as “significant risks for their users”.

South Korea has been very open about virtual currency. One of the most influential banking services in South Korea, the Shinhan Bank, is now working on providing deposit services to its crypto-users, for currencies like bitcoin and ether. More specifically, the Shinhan Bank has been given a contract for the legal provision of custodial services for digital currency.

Parity is trying to reassure customers that their funds will eventually be restored. However, two weeks after the incident there are still no signs of recovery. As expected, the investors are getting frustrated at Ethereum's inability to come up with a solution and are blaming the mismanagement of Parity wallets for their loss.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, JP Morgan Chase & Co. is now considering providing access to CME’s upcoming bitcoin futures via its own futures-brokerage division. With JP Morgan acting as a broker, it will attract masses of investors and traders to deal in CME’s bitcoin futures.

The price of ether, Ethereum's token, has hit an all new height of $415 on the 23rd of November. This new gain has earned Ethereum the second highest slot on the market evaluation chart of digital currencies at $40 billion, being only second to bitcoin and bitcoin cash.

The ICO market is helping startups gather millions of dollars’ worth of investment, but governments and professionals related to the financial sector all have one complaint against such a form of fundraising. They complain that ICOs are very unregulated as ICOs provide the investors with an opportunity to invest in a new startup and get digital tokens in return. These digital tokens have no existing framework as of now. Anyone with the required programming skills and contacts can set up a digital token through the blockchain networks.

LedgerX has turned out to be one of the most effective cryptocurrency exchanges. It is also one of the youngest exchanges, as they first received approval to begin trading in July and only started trading at the end of October, 2017.

The online digital currency trading platform wrote that their customers have been getting calls from a “so-called CEX.IO call center number.” The callers claim to be able to provide services to them, in return for a fee. The company has described these calls as fraud and has firmly denied having any links whatsoever to them.

Recently, around $374,000 USD disappeared after an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) was held under Ethereum platform. The ICO ran from November 6th to 8th, in which digital tokens were sold to investors over the Ethereum blockchain.

In extreme cases, countries have introduced penalties for trading cryptocurrencies, such as capturing of assets, blocking bank accounts, and even jail time.

As more and more people have started to adopt cryptocurrency, it has become excessively important that the tools used for carrying out transactions ensure that transactions are safe and secure.

Amid all these controversies and theft, one is left to wonder whether cryptocurrencies are safe. People have been investing their life savings into cryptocurrency exchanges, with some going as far as selling everything they own to invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

During the Singapore Fintech Festival this week, Ripple CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, and Ethereum co-founder, Joseph Lubin, both agreed on one thing. They agreed that a significant portion of the ICO market is fraudulent.

A great step towards the normalization of cryptocurrency has been taken by a London fintech startup, London Block Exchange (LBX). Led by a Credit Suisse veteran, the startup was launched on Tuesday and plans on releasing a new debit card, the Dragoncard.

Now more and more public figures related to crypto market, such as Rick Falkvinge, are supporting Bitcoin Cash and dumping Bitcoin Classic.

The highly anticipated update, originally expected to occur next year, may happen ahead of schedule. This update is crucial to Ethereum’s highly crowded network, as it will shift the technology from a proof-of-work (PoW) protocol to a proof-of-stake (PoS) one.

The latest innovation in the field of blockchain has been released by the global payment solutions company, Visa. The company already boasts a large portion of the global credit and debit card users, and is now trying to innovate to decrease costs and improve the processing speed of transactions.

With Japan becoming one of the largest protagonists of digital currency, the Japanese FSA have been publishing new financial administrative policies covering topics such as Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).

Bitcoin finally hit the much anticipated $8,000 mark, giving birth to speculation that the digital currency would reach $10,000 by the end of this year.

Many wallet provider platforms and cryptocurrency exchanges have made attempts to increase accessibility, but did not prove to be of much help to investors who were clueless about the crypto-market. However, TeleX Artificial Intelligence (AI) might actually be able to fill this information gap.

The Dutch financial institution, ING, announced this Thursday that their blockchain team has devised a system to addresses one of the biggest issues with blockchain usage in financial services.

With the huge debate going on regarding bitcoin’s sustainability, the former Federal Reserve, Chairman A. Greenspan, expressed his views. According to Greenspan, the digital currency can be compared to the 18th century’s Continental Currency, which was also not backed by anything.

Announced this Thursday, Coinbase’s new platform is designed to especially address security risks associated with cryptocurrency investments. The goal is to provide a trust-worthy system for major institutional investors in order to alleviate their concerns regarding the safety or legitimacy of their investments.

Today's international society is made up of people who prefer to pay in many different currencies, but not everyone accepts dollars, euros, or yen. Cryptocurrency has become the most up-to-date way of buying products and services in the market.

Two Swiss companies, Vontobel and Leonteq, have recently announced that they will be providing their customers with the opportunity to trade Bitcoin Futures. Both companies released their products on the SIX exchange. This shows a significant step forward in the acceptance of Bitcoin in the financial market.

The Ethereum network experienced an accidental hack last week that resulted in a number of Parity, multi-signature wallets getting locked. Ether funds present in these wallets are completely inaccessible, by both the hacker and the rightful owner.

A report released by Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) has stated that the number of attacks on South Korean websites to extract personal information and other data have significantly increased over the past year.

The Bitcoin Gold network released a statement regarding their progress after the initial launch and explained how people are reacting to the release of the new blockchain. The Bitcoin Gold chain was accepted by the miners and was heavily mined in the first few days after the hard fork.

When discussing the threats to blockchain technology, people generally focus on regulations and how they will impact the overall acceptance of blockchain. However, people seldom discuss the impact of other technologies on blockchain technology.

Dash, the sixth largest cryptocurrency, has released a new software update that speeds up transactions and reduces costs to almost zero. The 12.2 version of the Dash core software has many new features, but the most prominent is the increment of block size from 1MB to 2MB.

The controversial SegWit2x fork was gave rise to mixed reactions from Bitcoiners. Its cancellation came as a relief to those against the “corporate takeover” and a disappointment to its supporters.

The cancellation of SegWit2x Bitcoin hard fork has had a major impact on the crypto industry. It resulted in a slight decline of about 4% in Bitcoin’s price, but gave other cryptocurrencies a chance to rise.

Moscow-based Waves Platform was mainly developed to support the issuance and exchange of digital currencies. It completed its first Initial Coin Offering in 2016 and was successful in raising over $16 million. The blockchain-based platform debuted an upgraded version of its network on November 8th, claiming it to be the fastest in the world.

Deloitte insights state that there are 86,034 projects on the network but only 8% of these projects are actively maintained. Here, the standard for maintenance is defined as projects that are updated at least once every six months.

Despite the shut down of exchanges, Chinese investors continued trading Bitcoin and investing in ICOs. Investors simply switched to peer-to-peer trading, thus eliminating the need for an exchange’s involvement.

At least $150 million worth of Ethereum funds have been “frozen” after an accidental exploitation of a code bug. Over a hundred miners using multi-signature wallets to store their Ether virtual coins have permanently lost access to their accounts.

Sweden’s financial regulators have issued a statement detailing the risks related with ICO investments. On the other hand, the statement issued last month by New Zealand’s Financial Market Authority (FMA) regarding cryptocurrency services encouraged ICOs and the cryptocurrency industry.

Mike Belshe, project lead for the Segwit2x hard fork, just announced that the controversial Bitcoin protocol upgrade has been cancelled. The split that was expected to occur on or around November 16th, has been suspended indefinitely.

One of the biggest banks of India, the State Bank of India (SBI), disclosed its plans to implement Blockchain solutions in the management of Know Your Customer (KYC) protocols, among other financial processes.

NASDAQ, the second-largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization, says that their exchange is the best way for companies to raise cash. The US-based exchange continued to explain that Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are still an immature funding method.

Google Trends recently confirmed that, for the first time, global searches related to buying bitcoin have outnumbered those for gold, after previously having exceeded those for silver. Investor interest towards gold is further reduced as the surge in bitcoin’s attraction coincides with that of a successful US stock.

Cryptocurrency commentator, WhalePanda, is known to be among the most outspoken sources against the SegWit2x fork. On Monday, a short article described as “final thoughts” on the split was published by the commentator.

Toronto-based Venture Capitalist Company, NextBlock Global, announced on Sunday that it would be returning funds to investors. The decision was made after Forbes disclosed a scandal last week about the company falsely naming four blockchain stars as its advisors.

These apps attempt to obtain user credentials in order to steal funds. The apps were made to look like the official app of the popular cryptocurrency exchange, Poloniex.

Different countries’ governments have different policies regarding the use and trade of digital currencies. Some are making efforts to regulate them, few intend to issue a complete ban on them, and others recognize virtual currencies as an innovative technology and plan on making use of them after thorough research. South African country, Swaziland appears, to be one of the latter.

Enterprise software firm, R3, claims to have put forward a solution that utilizes distributed ledger technology (DLT) to introduce a faster, quicker, and cheaper way of facilitating international payments. In collaboration with the company’s 22 member banks, the product is developed on top of R3’s Corda platform, which enables direct, secure transactions via smart contracts.

This May, bill S.1241 was introduced to the US Senate. The purpose of this bill was to combat money laundering and the requirement of this bill arose from the increasing use of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and others in this field.

After the Bitcoin Cash hard fork took place in August, another hard fork, SegWit2x, is expected to take place on November 16th. Bitcoin has gone through forks before, but it is the first time that a split will create two competing versions of Bitcoin which will replace the original currency.

The Cryptocurrency market capitalization reached a new record-breaking high of $200 billion this Friday, with the biggest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, contributing 60%.

Blockchain, first employed by the digital currency Bitcoin, has found potential uses in all kinds of industries and has been accepted as a valuable technology in the stock market as well. It has several improvements to offer to the financial systems, however its integration into the framework is not an easy task.

On October 25, a class-action lawsuit was filed with the Superior Court of the state of California by Andrew Baker, a Tezos ICO contributor. The lawsuit lists multiple defendants, including the Tezos co-founders, Kathleen and Andrew Breitman, as well as Johan Gevers of the Zug-based Tezos Foundation.

On October 30th, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a case against a day-trader based in Ambler, Pennsylvania. Joseph P. Willner, age 42, was accused of running a market manipulation scheme through the unlawful take-over of at least 110 brokerage accounts.

Three new domains having cryptocurrency-related names were secured this Tuesday by Amazon’s legal department, as reported by the Trade Publication DomainNameWire. The domains registered to Amazon are amazonethereum.com, amazoncryptocurrencies.com and amazoncryptocurrency.com.

China’s cryptocurrency crackdown and US Securities and Exchange Commission’s declaration of digital tokens as 'securities’, has not slowed down the rate at which Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are appreciating in value, as the Bitcoin price has just reached its new record-breaking high of $6,400.

On October 30th, one of the oldest and most popular cryptocurrency trading platforms, Nova Exchange, announced that they were shutting down for a period of time. The Sweden-based cryptocurrency exchange claims that it will be making major upgrades to improve its operations, enabling it to better handle scaling, stability and security.

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has announced the legal framework for digital currencies, as reported by local publications, and payments in the form of bitcoin and other digital currencies have been banned completely within the country.

In the beginning of the year, MetaTrader technologies provider, Gold-i, launched Gold-i MAM Pro and Gold-i Visual Edge. The firm continued the expansion of its portfolio of solutions for brokers that are using MetaTrader 4/5 with the launch of another cryptocurrency solution, called Crypto Switch.

In the recent HM treasury paper, digital currencies were declared to pose a “low risk” when it comes to concerns about the financing strategies of terrorist groups. According to the report, the UK's economic and finance ministry believes that cryptocurrencies do not play a substantial role in funding terrorist activities.

According to Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais, Catalonia is using Estonia’s e-residency as a model for its own launch. Catalonia has the largest number of entrepreneurs working with digital currencies. The e-residency program is useful to Catalonia as the program has no borders.

During a recent developer's conference in San Francisco, the Samsung C-Lab presented various new ideas for upcycling old devices. They introduced a variety of creative utilities, including a Bitcoin mining device.

On September 26th, a 15-page white paper was published that outlined the proposal put forward by Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, and Jason Teutsch, the founder of TrueBit. Their idea is to make ICOs a bit more regulated by instilling basic principles of market values into ICOs.

After nearly 20 years, Korea has finally upgraded from its old online banking security protocols to a new blockchain-powered one. Chain ID is Korea’s newest standard for secure online identification.

arlier this month, the Blockchain-based startup Templum launched a regulated US exchange for ICOs, also called Templum, in partnership with the broker-dealer Liquid M Capital.

During an event hosted by Quartz and Retro Report Lubin said, “of course it’s a bubble.” However, according to him, “bubble bursting” is a silly concept as it is not necessarily a bad thing for technology.

This Tuesday, over 675,000 Breitbart mailing list subscribers received an email encouraging them to invest in risky cryptocurrencies supported by the advice that “the cryptocurrency market is RED HOT.”

On Wednesday, the New York City-based decentralized newsmaking platform, Civil, announced to have raised $5 million in funding. The firm plans on setting aside half of the funds as capital, while utilizing the other half to develop its services.

On Monday, a parliamentary audit was conducted of the Bank of Korea, the Central Bank of the Republic of Korea, by the country's National Assembly. During the hearing, the head of the bank refused to classify cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ether, as currencies and declared them to be commodities instead.

The culprit behind the sudden drop in value is the creation of Bitcoin Gold, which occurred on the 23rd of October. Bitcoin Gold is the newest cryptocurrency and has been developed using the same technology that was used to develop Bitcoin.

Blockchain projects backed by big names may be flooding the blockchain news outlets these days, but the projects that are being started seem too small and do not completely employ the innovation that is promised by blockchain.

There are many examples of blockchain applications already being released as a service, known as Blockchain as a Service (BaaS). These include the IBM Blockchain, the Microsoft Azure Blockchain, the Amazon AWS Blockchain, and the R3 Corda Blockchain.

The objective of this partnership is to combine Ledger’s unique operating system, ‘Blockchain Open Ledger Operating System’ (BOLOS), with Intel’s ‘Software Extension Guard’ (SGX).

The Central Bank governor reportedly said last month, “the use of cryptocurrency as a monetary surrogate is actively proposed for the calculation of goods and services, we will not allow the use of cryptocurrency as a money substitute.” Deputy Finance Minister, Alexei Moiseev, has suggested that cryptocurrencies be allowed for use as financial assets by qualified investors.

Jordan Belfort, whose memoir was the basis for the “Wolf of the Wall Street” film, warned that promoters of ICOs were "perpetuating a massive scam of the highest order on everyone.”

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will issue digital diplomas to 111 graduates using Bitcoin’s blockchain as part of a pilot project. The certificates will be issued via “Blockcerts Wallet”, which is an app that can facilitate the issuance of a verifiable and tamper-proof version of the certification.

Kazakhstan plans to enter the digital currency ecosystem with its own fiat-backed cryptocurrency. This past Tuesday, the Maltese firm, Exante, and the Astana International Finance Center (AIFC) reportedly signed an agreement. The AIFC is supported by the Kazakhstan government. Extante, the “Next Generation Investment Company”, recently launched Stasis – the first-ever platform to propose a cryptocurrency that is directly backed by fiat money.

The Tim Draper-backed ICO has been wroght with major problems. The futures price of the coin has fallen roughly 75% before it has even officially launched.

IRS agent David Utzke declared that the number of individuals who bother to report the capital gains from cryptocurrencies have been decreasing. Whatever the case may be, government ambiguity has made one-for-one forks and splits excessively complicated. It has become crucial for Bitcoiners to seek out professional tax advice.

Minister of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov broke the news and stated: “I confidently declare that we will run CryptoRuble just for one simple reason: if we don’t, our neighbors in the Eurasian Economic Community will do it in a couple of months.”

The price of bitcoin has reached a record-breaking high of $6,000 USD across multiple global exchanges, with a current 24-hour volume of $1.7 billion. From Japan and the US, to countries like Zimbabwe and Venezuela where BTC is used to escape hyperinflation, proponents all over the world are thrilled.

The second hard fork of Bitcoin’s history, Bitcoin Gold, is scheduled to take place on October 25th, while another Bitcoin hard fork, SegWit2x, will occur in November.

In addition to China being the manufacturer of most of the cryptocurrency mining equipment, it is also the country where more than half of the total bitcoin miners are based. However, with China’s recent ban on ICOs, it is feared that the ban may be intensified to target the Chinese miners as well.

The number of corporate investors in blockchain companies reached a record high of 91 this year, with Google and Goldman Sachs among the most active investors. Till now, there have been 42 equity investment deals by corporations this year, totaling $327 million.

The Japanese manager of the Ripple exchange and trading platform, 31-year-old Yuki Takenaka, has been arrested for allegedly swindling investors. This arrest occurred during a large-scale investigation of fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes.

As of August, BoA has filed more than 20 cryptocurrency and blockchain-related patent applications, nine of which were submitted in 2016, four were filed in 2015, and 10 were filed in 2014.

Investors need to be extremely cautious when investing their money in ICOs. Checking the requirements that are mentioned will help investors differentiate between a scam and a viable investment.

Protocol Ventures, the first-ever fund-of-funds for cryptocurrencies, has been launched by serial tech entrepreneur and investor, Rick Marini.

It is important to clarify that the vault does not store actual bitcoins, rather it stores private, cryptographic keys. These keys form pairs with public-facing keys, and provide the users with access to the balance of coins that is stored on the Bitcoin network.

The Byzantium hard fork will improve the performance of the blockchain network with an addition of new security features.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has already confirmed that bitcoin, and other cryptocurrency assets, will be treated as commodities. Recently, it was disclosed that tokens issued through initial coin offerings (ICOs) may be considered as commodities as well.

Around this time last month, the amount raised by ICOs in the crypto market surpassed $2 billion. Within the past 30 days, it has increased by more than another billion dollars.

The RippleNet Accelerator Program, which provides the early adopters with a volume rebate and other market incentives, is funded from an account containing $300 million of XRP. In order for RippleNet members to receive their license and rebate, they must reach integration and volume milestones by a deadline.

Politifact is the latest site to have its website used for mining cryptocurrency.  When contacted regarding this proceeding, Politifact team denied being aware of the routine being present on their site and vowed to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

LocalBitcoin, which is a P2P marketplace for bitcoin, does not support Bitcoin Cash. This has made the development of such a marketplace necessary. A Reddit user, MobTwo, reported that he is in the process of building LocalBitcoinCash, which is the Bitcoin Cash version of LocalBitcoin.

Russian cryptocurrency startup, Comino, has come up with a high-tech yet simple contraption to enable people to enter the cryptocurrency market while keeping them warm and cozy. The startup has built a room heater that can not only keep a room warm, but also mine various cryptocurrencies in the process.

Sergei Shvetsov, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), stated that the Russian government aims to block access to websites that belongs to exchanges and trading platforms, which offer cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. This was reported by an article on Reuters.

Ripple has recently signed up more clients to its blockchain network, with the total now around 100. Its distributed ledger network, RippleNet, has been joined by the likes of UAE based lender, RAKBANK, and UK based currency exchange firm, IFX.

The idea of buying citizenship through investment is an old one, and almost every country offers citizenship in return for a specific amount of investment. Recently, a tiny island in the Southern Pacific has made headlines with its plan to offer citizenship in return for investments in the form of digital currencies.

A public launch of the new platform is expected to occur sometime next year. Oracle has become the latest addition in the blockchain-as-a-service market, which already includes the IBM and Microsoft.

Following the trend of other countries, France is all set to release regulations related to the sale of tokens or Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). This has been reported by the domestic financial market regulators of France.

In light of the recent crackdown on cryptocurrencies all over the world, there is a need for greater transparency in the blockchain industry. ConsenSys is a project that aims to introduce more financial transparency and has come up with an ingenious new accounting software tool, Balanc3, to solve this issue.

Impressive amounts of investment were observed in the last quarter in the alt-coins, as investors raised the value of cryptocurrencies by millions. For example, Dash, which is valued at $2.3 billion, was up by almost 82%.

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) of South Korea has released a statement in which they announced that all Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) will be banned in the country. According to Reuters, South Korea’s FSC said on Friday that “it will ban raising money through all forms of virtual currencies.”

Due to the lack of a proper investment platform for virtual currencies, Hunter Horsley, a senior project manager from Facebook, and Hong Kim, a Google veteran, decided to build a cryptocurrency asset management company.

OKEx, a sister site of OKCoin, is a major bitcoin trading platform in China with customers from all over the world. Recently, a customer of OKEx reported that their account was accessed from a German IP when BTC-ETC trading was carried through it.

Quartz recently released a reported on how the bitcoin market in China has grown from a small-scale experiment to a billion-dollar market. The author reported that the Chinese government regulates the market so tightly that there is little room for speculation.

A week ago, South Korean regulators announced that they will be banning all Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The ban has yet to be implemented and many startups have decided to take action against the call of regulators to ban ICOs.

After the recent crackdown on ICOs, China’s official press agency released another statement in which it condemned the use of virtual currency in illegal activities.

While talking to Bloomberg TV, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, says that he is a big believer in cryptocurrency.

Roars of celebration could be heard around the office floor of R3 as the chief architect, Richard Gendal Brown, announced the release of their newest Corda distributed ledger platform.

The recent report, released by Friedman LLP, may have quelled the rumors of the insolvency of Tether, however the issue of Tether being used for illicit activities is still a big concern.

According to Quartz, Fidelity has set up a small cryptocurrency operation inside its asset management department; this department is related to making money for the company.

In the recent months, the company has issued a huge number of tokens and has since been extensively scrutinized as to whether these tokens are actually backed by real currency.

Jinse.com has reported that Chinese authorities are planning on regulating the cryptocurrency market by classifying cryptocurrency a virtual assets.

The bank aims to use this new technology to handle remittances between Japan and Thailand. Ripple, used as a cross-border payment network solution, will allow the bank to transfer remittances from Japan to Thailand nearly instantaneously.

Architect Partners conducted a thorough research, analyzing data collected from tokendata.io to come to stark conclusions regarding the ICO market.

Japanese bitcoin exchanges have begun receiving their formal operating licenses from the local Financial Services Agency (FSA). QUOINE and bitFlyer were some of the first exchanges to receive their formal certificate of approval from the government’s department.

Following the recent turmoil between the cryptocurrency market and the Chinese government, the latter have released a regulatory document that is focused on stopping illegal fundraising that may put investors into harm's way.

As google Adsense and other conventional methods of marketing are not as profitable as they used to be, website owners are aching to find new ways to monetize their sites. Embedding cryptocurrency mining scripts in webpages has been found to be a very lucrative business.

Cryptocurrency is moving out of China and into Japan and South-Korea, making them the dominating countries on the Bitcoin Ecosystem.

More than 50 days after the last hard fork, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network is up and running with full steam ahead. Different development teams are working on the BCH network in order to improve the cryptocurrency’s protocol.

By connecting with one of the leading payment processing companies, Bitpay is helping increase mainstream adoption of the cryptocurrency.