Blockchain

11 Oct 17 @ 11:00

Ripple, one of the biggest blockchain companies, has announced it has $15bn of cryptocurrency reserves that it may use to acquire or partner with rivals, as it seeks to dominate... read more

09 Oct 17 @ 11:53

Hackers have managed to install code on the sites that uses visitors’ computers to “mine” the crypto-currencies. School, charities and file-sharing websites have been caught out by scammers who are... read more

04 Oct 17 @ 09:32

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned central bankers that digital currencies are rising. Lagarde told them not to discount digital currencies, because they are gaining more adoption and... read more

28 Sep 17 @ 12:03

B2B FinTechs are attracting an increasing proportion of total European FinTech funding, according to a recent research presentation from Innovate Finance and Pitchbook. There has been a growing number of... read more

26 Sep 17 @ 16:57

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the underlying Blockchain technology was invented/created over eight years ago as an alternative means of payment through the mining of digital currency (Bitcoin) by solving cryptic... read more

21 Sep 17 @ 09:59

Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap, like Bitcoin a few weeks ago, has rolled out the first stage of its Metropolis hard fork proposal this week. Coin Telegraph... read more

20 Sep 17 @ 14:28

From virtual mobile wallets to peer-to-peer money transfer apps, there are an increasingly diverse number of ways to pay, beyond the old medium of cash. And the geographic scope of... read more

05 Sep 17 @ 13:35

The Bitcoin price fell heavily after China’s central bank said Initial Coin Offerings are illegal and asked all related fundraising activity to be halted immediately, issuing the strongest regulatory challenge... read more

05 Sep 17 @ 13:15

A new study from has found that the value of cryptocurrency transactions is expected to surpass $1 trillion in 2017, more than 15 times the level in 2016. The new research... read more

01 Sep 17 @ 15:49

In competition with R3 and Swifts blockchain initiative, six of the world’s biggest banks have joined a project to create a new form of digital currency that they hope to... read more

21 Aug 17 @ 14:25

Defying its naysayers once again, Bitcoin’s price surged above $4,500 for the first time late last week to reach a market value of $73.6 billion. While the cryptocurrency has since pared some of its... read more

01 Aug 17 @ 16:36

Today, the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, split in two as a ‘breakaway’ group of Bitcoin miners and developers plan to create the new Bitcoin cash network that increases the transaction capacity of... read more