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During the last annual Beyond Block Taipei 2017 conference that was hosted by Taiwan, the Ethereum creator, Vitalik Buterin, revealed his future plans for the cryptocurrency. According to Buterin, Ethereum 2.0 will focus on attaining a scalability level that could rival that of VISA within the next five...

A hacker managed to compromise Bitcoin Gold’s Github page.

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...

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...

The Belarusian president is expected to pass a law which would legalize cryptocurrencies in the Eastern European country.

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.

Despite the canceled SegWit2X fork, four more forks will take place in the next few months.