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The investment bank thinks the regulatory landscape for trading bitcoin remains uncertain.

The days of the pump and dump ICO may be numbered: the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) is on the warpath, taking action against potentially dodgy cryptocurrency schemes. In an announcement made yesterday, NASAA revealed it has

Why save cryptocurrency passwords on a hard drive when you can store it in DNA?

David Schwartz, the CTO of Ripple Inc., writes on the company’s website that the setup of XRP’s “validators,” which do not utilize “mining,” make the ledger more resistant to bad actors than Bitcoin’s.

As of today, four mining groups currently control 58 percent of the Bitcoin network and three

The SEC has issued rejections to bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETFs) proposals from ProShares, GraniteShares and Direxion.

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On the Joe Rogan podcast (JRE podcast), American singer-songwriter Shooter Jennings and Joe Rogan discussed Ethereum-based Twitter alternative Peepeth, which allows anyone to release permanent tweets embedded into the blockchain, without censorship. Throu

Cryptocurrency trading revenue is primed to explode within the near future, and Wall Street is running out of time if it hopes to stop industry giant Coinbase from gaining an indomitable market position. Writing in a new report titled "Crypto Trading

Cryptocurrency trading has recently been deemed illegal in Saudia Arabia. A committee consisting of the Capital Market Authority (CMA), Ministry of Ministry of Interior membership, Ministry of Media, Ministry of Commerce and Investment and Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) has released a

Another massive security vulnerability in a major cryptocurrency has been discovered, just sitting there, waiting to be exploited and this time around it's Bitcoin Cash. Its blockchain was open to being jammed with a toxic block that would have caused

Cryptocurrency bitcoin has a statistical probability to become worthless. Here's what that means, according to two Yale University professors who crunched the numbers.

The crypto market is searching for a path to legitimacy, but the SEC just put those plans on hold -- again.

Cryptocurrency investors continue to turn risk averse as the total cryptocurrency market capitalization sinks to a new annual low.

Bloomberg reports that a massive wrong-way bet on Bitcoin left an unidentified futures trader unable to cover their losses, burning counterparties and threatening to dent confidence in one of the world's largest cryptocurrency venues.The long position

Even after weathering a bear market that wiped out more than 60 percent of the flagship cryptocurrency's value, the bitcoin price continues to trade at a mark far above what its critics thought it could ever reach. Nevertheless, it still has a long wa

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Starbucks customers may soon be able to pay for their lattes with bitcoin. The company announced on Wednesday that it's teaming up with Microsoft and Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, to le

The annual Swell by Ripple conference invites global leaders from the policy, payments, and technology fields to come together and discuss how blockchain can be used to benefit society at large. According to a tweet from Ripple, former U.S. President Bill

The dark side of the cryptocurrency market is its opacity and lawlessness which deters many institutional investors. A fully regulated exchange which is now open could help change that.