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Binance moved to Tokyo after China banned crypto trading, and is becoming the busiest exchange in the world just five months after launching its services. Following a period of downtime due to software update procedures, 240,000 new account were created on Binance's platform, according to the exchange's...

Red & Yellow becomes first higher education institute in Africa to accept cryptocurrency. The South African business school decided to accept bitcoin payments for its tuition fees.

The South Korean government has urged financial regulators all over the world including those from the United States, China, South Africa, and Russia, as well as several organizations and central banks, to join their endeavor in curbing cryptocurrency trading.

Australia, like other countries, is struggling to tax cryptocurrency and keep track of transactions on popular coin exchanges. Australian tax experts are unlikely to treat cryptocurrencies as currencies. Instead, cryptocurrencies are treated as financial assets, akin to stocks and bonds. Prior to July...

The popular chat app, Telegram, is orchestrating the world’s single largest ICO presale, which is likely to raise millions of dollars. The messaging service will issue their very own tokens, called the 'gram'. Users will be able to spend their tokens on various services offered by the Telegram app.

Renren, the Chinese social network, has canceled their plans to launch an ICO after meeting with Chinese regulators. According to the company’s whitepaper, Renren intended to launch an ICO, dubbed RRcoin. Renren has chosen not to comment on whether or not their decision was influenced by Chinese regulators....

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...

European bitcoin users were hit hard last week, when Wavecrest announced termination of all services associated with bitcoin debit card providers Xapo, Bitwala, Bitpay, and TenX. This came a consequence to Visa's decision to terminate all business relationships with Wavecrest, the debit card issuer.