Europe
Cyprus registers Binance as a cryptocurrency service provider.
Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, will be able to provide services for virtual currencies in Cyprus as a result of the platform's recent registration with the nation's securities regulator. The...
Cryptocurrency
More than 24,000 ATMs in Brazil will offer USDT through Tether and Smartpay.
Usdt, the largest dollar-pegged stablecoin on the market, was created by Tether, a company. Tether recently announced that...
Blockchain
To solve the blockchain modularity issue, Celestia raises $55 million.
The project Celestia, which seeks to address the alleged centralization issue in the current monolithic blockchains, has announced...
Asia
Hong Kong considers removing the “Professional Investor-Only Requirement” and allowing retail investors to trade cryptocurrency.
Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong's director of licensing and head of the fintech division both...
Banking
A Societe Generale subsidiary in France, the third-largest bank, has been registered as a provider of digital asset services.
The third-largest bank in France's subsidiary, Societe Generale-Forge, has been registered as a provider of digital asset services...
Investor Doug Casey: Bitcoin May Be Money, But It Still Might Fail
Investor and anarcho-capitalist Doug Casey recently argued that bitcoin qualifies as money – even if he's not sure it'll last in the long term.
In...
Welcome to Bitcoin Country: Silk Road and the Lost Threads of Agorism
Dr Paul Ennis is a research assistant at the Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation at University College Dublin, specializing in bitcoin and blockchain...
Cryptocurrency Trading Volume Set to Surpass Apple Stock: Market Strategist
Stock market strategist Jens Nordvig predicts that daily cryptocurrency trading volume will “soon surpass” that of Apple, the most-traded company stock.
Nordvig, the founder and...
CFTC Suit Files Suit Against $600K Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme in New York
In an agency first, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit accusing a Brooklyn, New York man of operating a...
Radical Academy: Amir Taaki’s New Hacker Team Is Spreading Bitcoin in Syria
Lugging an AK-47, fighting ISIS in Syria – Amir Taaki has seen some shit.
But, through it all, the hacker – best known for writing crypto code in...
Dimon Knocks Bitcoin Again: Crackdown Likely on ‘Worthless’ Cryptocurrency
Jamie Dimon is at it again.
Expanding on his recent criticism of bitcoin, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase bank is again out in the media...