// Crypto News

Imagine getting paid while shopping online. Even better, imagine getting paid in cryptocurrency while shopping online. Sound good? A new customer rewards platform called Lolli thinks so and is paving the way for a new cryptocurrency cashback model. Or perhaps it should be coined the new #bitcoinback model? Either way, ... [read more]

A new venture involving institutional heavy hitters from across banking, trading and energy sectors is tapping into the Ethereum blockchain to settle commodity trades.Headquartered in Switzerland, the initiative called komgo SA brings together ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas, Citi, Crédit Agricole Group, Gunvor, ING, Koch Supply & Trading, Macquarie, Mercuria, MUFG ... [read more]

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies have the power to revolutionize the global financial system and tax policies should encourage its use. ... [read more]

Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles has issued emergency ordinances against three separate fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes linked to Russian scammers.The orders were issued on September 18, 2018, against DGBK Ltd., an offshore digital “bank” that claims to have developed a hack-proof custody solution for digital assets and virtual currencies; Coins Miner ... [read more]

The Cyber Threat Alliance reports that an increase in cryptojacking stems from the 2017 leak of the NSA creation EternalBlue. ... [read more]

Gil Beyda Contributor Gil Beyda is a partner at Comcast Ventures. The startup media is awash with stories of corporate venture capital prioritizing their own interests over those of their portfolio. While acknowledging that some of these stories may have a basis in ... [read more]

The local financial regulator issued emergency orders against DigitalBank (DGBK Ltd.), Coins Miner Investment, and Ultimate Assets for unlawfully targeting Texas residents. ... [read more]

From the time it was founded seven years ago, Coinbase has been a leading advocate for the adoption of cryptocurrency. We’ve engaged proactively with regulators as we built products and services that allow people to buy, sell and use cryptocurrency all over the world. In recent years, the industry expanded ... [read more]

Durante las últimas semanas, los seguidores de Bitcoin Cash han estado debatiendo sobre el próximo hard fork previsto para el 15 de noviembre de este año. La mayor parte de la comunidad entiende que, a partir de ahora, hay dos campos que tienen visiones completamente diferentes. No parece que se ... [read more]

The gaining popularity in Bitcoin and digital currencies will help advance the development of the global gambling industry. ... [read more]

Cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin is continuing its expansion in the US market with the addition of five new coins to its offerings. ... [read more]

The group was asked to clarify anti-money laundering standards at the July G20 meeting. ... [read more]

Disappointing progress, poor marketing and the proliferation of scam projects are cited as the key reasons for the falling success rate of ICOs, and their returns have been significantly reduced in 2018.  ... [read more]

Coinbase has made yet another addition to its c-suite. The cryptocurrency trading platform has hired Brian Brooks, the former executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Fannie Mae, as its chief legal officer. The hiring is part of the company’s effort to expand its legal, compliance and ... [read more]

An analysis published by the New York attorney general hones in on a number of exchanges, pointing out what it perceives as a lack of accountability and customer protection. ... [read more]

A new report drafted by the New York attorney general’s office (OAG) alleges that a significant number of cryptocurrency exchanges may be vulnerable to market manipulation, a finding that could prove ominous for hopes among investors that federal regulators will approve a bitcoin ETF or other exchange-traded crypto products in ... [read more]

After sideways trading in the past 2 weeks between the $6,100 and the $6,500 support and resistance lines, Bitcoin decided to say hello by bouncing between the two ranges in a matter of minutes. What caused the Bitcoin price to drop to a low of $6,100 then bounce up to ... [read more]

In a September 14 security breach, hackers reportedly stole $59 million worth of crypto from Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif ... [read more]

Users of Zaif crypto exchange based in Japan have been recently denied access to the withdrawals and deposits on the exchange. In what would probably be the second significant hacking incident involving an exchange based in Japan, after Coincheck’s hack. The exchange owners revealed in a recent press release (written in Japanese) that ... [read more]

You may think that blockchain is the savior of copyright protection, but unfortunately, everything isn’t as clear cut as it may seem ... [read more]

So you spent upwards of $100,000 to purchase one of the hottest digital felines on CryptoKitties — now what? That’s the question plaguing many users of CryptoKitties, which remains the most popular decentralized application (dApp) on Ethereum, per DappRadar, but — despite receiving $12 million in venture funding — is ... [read more]

The go-to narrative for critics outside of the cryptocurrency space is to claim that decentralized systems and dApps have no active user bases. Ethereum-based Brave Browser is already being considered as a viable alternative to existing browsers like Chrome and Firefox. Popular Science, a widely recognized science magazine, recently listed ... [read more]

Dogecoin – the cryptocurrency that began as a meme and one that represents cute little Shiba Inus everywhere – has dropped quite a bit. Over the past two months, the currency has been a real surprise in the altcoin space, moving up the financial ladder while other altcoins experienced slips ... [read more]

A new cybercrime report from Europol predicts cybercriminals will increasingly use anonymity-focused altcoins, even as Bitcoin remains the most popular crypto for now ... [read more]

These are interesting times for the cryptocurrency industry as a whole. Although no real upward momentum can be sustained as of right now, there is still plenty of excitement across the different markets. The Dogecoin price, for example, is stuck in the dirt for the time being. However, with key ... [read more]

As Huobi becomes a Russian innovation fund resident, the country works towards creating legal framework for crypto assets ... [read more]

PNC, rated one of top ten U.S. banks, will use Ripple-powered xCurrent for business customers’ transactions ... [read more]

19 September 2018 – TEMCO Labs has signed a partnership agreement with global advisory firm TLDR. Thomas Graham, Alex Yamashita, and Graham Friedman of TLDR will advise TEMCO in development of TEMCO project. As the first Asian company to officially partner with RSK, TEMCO’s collaboration with the globally renowned ... [read more]

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Jesse Powell, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has lobbed another bomb at the state of New York in regard to the latter’s stance toward the crypto industry and Kraken in particular. Writing on Twitter, Powell compared New York’s crypto regulators to an abusive ex-partner who continues to stalk the company ... [read more]

The newly appointed Finance Minister in the Zimbabwean cabinet has said that he will be pushing the country’s central bank to establish a cryptocurrency unit. Africa Embraces Cryptocurrency Africa is one continent that is experiencing a rise in the use of digital currencies. In June, Ray Youssef, co-founder of peer-to-peer ... [read more]

Another Bitcoin scam has surfaced in Las Vegas where power utility customers are told they will be disconnected unless they immediately pay in crypto. An old scam has gotten a cryptocurrency twist over the last year. The scam in question is the old utility payment scam, and it has recently ... [read more]

Competition is heating up in the world of cryptocurrency exchanges. Former SpaceX engineer Joshua Greenwald is exploring a new venture in this industry. The new firm will go by the name of LXDX and offer institutional tools to all investors. SpaceX Engineer Goes Crypto The cryptocurrency ecosystem attracts attention from ... [read more]

September 18 2018 KRAKEN DIGITAL ASSET EXCHANGE $126M traded across all markets today Crypto, EUR, USD, JPY, CAD, GBP  BTC $6,316 ↑1.27% $50.3M ETH $206.6 ↑6.97% $47.4M XRP $0.3139 ↑17.1% $13M EOS $5.04 ↑7.23% $3.3M BCH $430.62 ↑4.51% $2.2M XMR $111.20 ↑2.38% $2.11M USDT $1.00 ↓0.01% $1.73M LTC $53.97 ↑3.89% $1.52M XLM $0.2072 ↑6.18% $1.3M ETC $10.57 ↑4.86% $1.12M DASH $185.9 ↑0.35% $866,134 ZEC $112.4 ↑5.62% $361,081 DOGE $0.0059 ↓4.86% $221,018 MLN $9.64 ↓5.12% $199,956 REP $12.59 ↑4.14% $178,123 GNO $26.9 ↓2.08% $49,261 Visit the About section on our blog for more information about the Kraken Daily Market Report here. The post Daily Market Report for September 18 2018 appeared ... [read more]

In a push to take its strategic technology infrastructure to the next level, the world’s second-largest stock exchange NASDAQ is set to acquire Swedish fintech company Cinnober for $190 million. An Answer to the Growing Demand NASDAQ seeks to acquire a major Swedish financial technology provider Cinnober, making a $190 ... [read more]

The growing popularity of crypto investments has aroused a keen interest in blockchain technologies and their possibilities. Today, blockchain is used as a generic term, and most people associate it with Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency created using the distributed ledger technology for the first time. However, the potential and scope of ... [read more]

Japan just received some crypto-positive news, as a Chinese blockchain company just unveiled it’s working on a yen-backed cryptocurrency. Crypto in Japan has always been widely accepted, but it is quite the opposite in China—the country went as far as to create its own cryptocurrency firewall. The South China Morning Post ... [read more]

Two EOS gambling platforms have been hacked in the last week. An amount totaling $250,000 USD. In the same week, another platform, EOSBet, paid out $600,000 to one user in a claimed ‘jack-pot,’ though some aren’t so sure. What’s going on? What’s with the EOS hacks? EOS Hacks The EOS smart ... [read more]

Ripple (XRP) received a serious boost this morning after news broke that Ripple Labs’ xRapid project could debut in the next month, or so. Ripple (XRP) and xRapid Sagar Sarbhai, head of regulatory affairs at Ripple, spoke to CNBC yesterday and confirmed positive movement on its xRapid platform. “I am ... [read more]

3:33 PM GMT, Sunday 16th September 2018 heralded the arrival of ColossusXT’s new Zerocoin Protocol which went live at block 500,000. This is another major leap forward for their bleeding-edge privacy coin called COLX. Zerocoin is an enhanced privacy protocol that allows users to convert COLX to zCOLX and send transactions ... [read more]

China intensifies the pressure on cryptocurrencies as the Shanghai Head Office of the country’s central bank issued a warning to investors, prompting for increased risk awareness towards the field. Cryptocurrency Clampdown The central bank of China in its Shanghai Head Office has issued yet another warning for investors to increase ... [read more]

SINGAPORE – Sep 15, 2018 – KuCoin, a Singapore-based international cryptocurrency exchange, today celebrates its one-year business anniversary. In recognition of this celebration, KuCoin has launched a series of special promotions, with a total of 47 BTC to be given away. The Promotions include a BTC Price Guessing Competition, Trading ... [read more]

Cryptocurrencies continue to spark interesting debates across different industries. Football clubs show an increasing interest in exploring options in this regard. After PSG and Avai FC, two Premier League teams now mull issuing their own currencies. It would give both teams more cash to spend on new players during the ... [read more]

For the second time this year, the crypto market cap has dropped below $200 billion as individual coins failed to hold on to previous highs. Market Cap Falls to $192 Billion Bitcoin is once again trading under $6,300, at $6,281, according to CoinMarketCap. On September 5th, it was showing some traction ... [read more]

In our global world, payments are made routinely across continents, but they can be slow, incur large commissions for conversion and handling, and be vulnerable to hacking. Our personal information from simple passwords to biometric data is often stored in centralized, third-party repositories and may have even been replicated to ... [read more]