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South Korea is truly crypto crazy. While the country has less than 1 percent of the world's population, estimates indicate it is responsible for 30 percent of all cryptocurrency trading in the worl...

Via TechInDC: A University of Chicago economist has thrown some cold water on the notion that Bitcoin will be broadly adopted and have the chance to truly disrupt the existing financial system. In a paper published in June, Eric Budish concludes that "

Lightning Network, a technology often touted as the solution to Bitcoin's scalability problem, has been growing leaps and bounds in popularity in the recent months in spite of being at a nascent stage. The technology has been tested successfully for p

goldman Sachs’ COO has hinted that the firm might offer more cryptocurrency trading products and services than its current offering on Bitcoin futures. This is particularly notable seeing as Goldman Sachs’ COO is rumored to replace the current CEO this December.

XRP, which Ripple created, resembles Ethereum in its early days, the CEO said.

Bithumb said on Twitter it was temporarily suspending deposit and withdrawal services, following the security breach.

The CEO told the crowd, "I'll tell you another story that is underreported, but worth paying attention to. Bitcoin is really controlled by China. There are four miners in China that control over 50% of Bitcoin". "How do we know that China won't intervene? How many countries want to use a

Two money transfer firms are to open a new payments corridor using RippleNet, while a Kuwaiti bank has also signed up to use the service.

"We may come to find that bitcoin is kind of the Napster of digital assets," he said at Recode's Code Conference. "This is transformative technology, but Spotify and iTunes and Pandora rule the day because they engaged with regulators to solve a real problem."

Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services Inc. is the latest cryptocurrency company charged with fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission

James Howells, a 32-year-old IT specialist who recently switched to a full-time cryptocurrency investor, told New York Post that he had lost more than $60 million in bitcoin in 2009 and was never able to retrieve it. 7,500 BTC In 2009, the debut year of B

Blockchains may be secure by design, but researchers continue to show that the same is not true for the thousands of motley cryptocurrencies based on the technology. Husam Abboud, a cryptocurrency researcher at FECAP University in Brazil, has demonstrated

The "Time Money" currency created by the father of socialism.Robert J. Shiller with some interesting observations and history:One must bear in mind that attempts to reinvent money have a long history...As the sociologist Viviana Zelizer points out

Fintech company Circle is introducing a new cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar, and it announced a $110 million investment by profitable cryptocurrency mining company Bitmain that brings its value near $3 billion.

After its initial ban of cryptocurrencies and ICO ads this past January, Facebook now gathers a team of blockchain professionals to possibly create their own virtual currency.

San Francisco-based Ripple, the creators of XRP cryptocurrency has announced a new project called "Xpring" (pronounced "spring") to provide financial backing to companies that develop products and services for XRP, the third-largest crypto

Former head of Facebook's developer network leads 'Xpring' initiative to expand the $28B cryptocurrency

Ripple is claiming promising results from the first pilot trials by remittance platforms of its digital asset XRP as a medium of exchange.

Ripple's xRapid pilot program results found that customers saved both money and time when compared to traditional cross-border transactions.

So far, the device of choice to mine the ethereum cryptocurrency has been the traditional computer graphics card. That could soon change when specialized devices commonly known as "ASICs" are introduced later this year, which are much more efficient at mining cryptocurrencies than graphics cards.