Bitcoin

04 Mar 19 @ 12:19

Facebook is working on making the FaceCoin cryptocurrency that will let users transfer money on its WhatsApp messaging app, focusing first on the remittances market. The company is developing FaceCoin... read more

14 Feb 19 @ 14:37

Despite CEO Jamie Dimon labelling Bitcoin a fraud, JP Morgan, the largest bank in the US, has announced it has created and successfully tested its JPM Coin cryptocurrency this month.... read more

10 Jan 19 @ 18:51

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published the results of its assessment of the applicability and suitability of EU law to crypto-assets. Typically, crypto-asset activities do not constitute regulated services... read more

09 Jan 19 @ 12:57

Mizuho Bank is set to roll out a proprietary digital currency, J Coin, in March, backed by 60 regional domestic banks. The virtual currency is the result of the development of... read more

21 Nov 18 @ 14:31

As Bitcoin plummeted following a $15 billion crash, pressure is building on regulators to increase their oversight of cryptocurrencies, especially after irregularities at one of the world’s largest virtual trading... read more

14 Nov 18 @ 17:05

It is a well known fact that China has for some time been against the cryptocurrency boom taking place globally, however, The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has has now... read more

05 Nov 18 @ 13:10

Bitcoin is Ten! Ten years ago, as Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy and the global economy nosedived into recession, the idea for an alternative digital currency was being built online. On... read more

04 Oct 18 @ 12:46

A Wall Street Journal investigation has uncovered that $88.6 million in illicit funds have been transacted through 46 cryptocurrency exchanges. The WSJ reported that $9 million of the suspect funds went through crypto exchange ShapeShift.... read more

20 Sep 18 @ 14:11

In yet another blow to the burgeoning cryptocurrency market, it has been reported that Zaif, a Japanese digital currency exchange, has had $60 million stolen. Tech Bureau, the operator of Zaif... read more

13 Sep 18 @ 09:00

GRAFT (Global Real-time Authorizations and Funds Transfers), a blockchain payment network innovator has announced that it has achieved its first end-to-end instant payment transaction (under 2 seconds) on the GRAFT Network.... read more

03 Sep 18 @ 13:03

China is further tightening its clampdown on cryptocurrency, nearly a year after the government imposed a wide-ranging ban on local exchanges and ICO’s fundraising for digital currencies. Financial officials in an eastern... read more

24 Aug 18 @ 12:46

The Bank of Thailand has outlined a preliminary road-map for Project Inthanon, its central bank digital currency (CBDC) initiative. The Bank of Thailand (BoT), the country’s central bank, is partnering... read more