Cryptocurrency

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

11 Sep 18 @ 14:12

Ripple Labs says it has reached a settlement “of all outstanding litigation” between R3 and XRP II, according to a press release published today. As per that statement, the details of the settlement... 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

14 Aug 18 @ 13:51

Previously existing only on the fringes of finance or computer science, cryptocurrencies are now being discussed more widely. In the future, banks may not be the only ones making money... read more

02 Aug 18 @ 14:04

The news today is full of stories about financial damage caused by the dark web, cyber crime and hacker attacks against organisations, or about hundreds of thousands of user accounts... read more

31 Jul 18 @ 13:41

Mastercard recently won a patent to protect a method that would manage “fractional reserves of blockchain currency”, meaning consumers might one day be able to charge their purchases on their credit... read more

26 Jul 18 @ 11:43

Mistertango, a “crypto-friendly payment company”, has released a study highlighting that contrary to perception, 88% of crypto exchanges want industry regulation. Respondents believe regulation is needed for the industry to... read more

25 Jul 18 @ 15:03

The UK Police force in Surrey has become the first UK force to seize and convert bitcoin as part of a criminal probe, netting £1.25m worth of the cryptocurrency, some... read more

17 Jul 18 @ 09:58

UK regulators are starting to give cryptocurrencies and associated crypto assets their seal of approval. This is significant, not least because it goes against the prevailing wisdom among policymakers around the world... read more

16 Jul 18 @ 09:05

Since last year the bitcoin hash rate — the amount of computing power used by bitcoin’s network of computers to create new coins — has soared as it rushes to catch... read more

26 Jun 18 @ 12:31

A new, focused report by the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee has found in favour of supporting central bank digital currencies which they define differently from cryptocurrrencies. One can distinguish... read more