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Nordea Bank, a retail bank headquartered in Denmark, banned its employees from owning bitcoin. The ban will force all employee's on the bank's payroll to stop buying bitcoin by February 28th.

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 Tethe...

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 ci...

A new partnership, between major e-commerce platform, WeMakePrice, and exchange, Bithumb, marks a prominent step in the cryptocurrency adoption in South Korea.

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 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...

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.

An anonymous reporter uses Benford's Law to determine whether tether is affecting or manipulating the bitcoin price.

After awarding bitcoin a C+ rating, Weiss was targeted by a DDoS attack. Weiss ratings is a group that formally rates various investment assets, currencies, and financial institutions. The group had rated cryptocurrencies for the first time before being the target of the attack..