Cryptocurrency News

JPMorgan, a large American financial holding, will start testing its stablecoin among corporate clients. It is reported by Bloomberg Japan. According to the publication, the head of blockchain-development of JPMorgan Umar Farooq said that customers will take part in testing technology aimed at...

The prosecutor's office of the Volgograd accused the former operative of the drug control service and his trainee in the sale of narcotic substances and the laundering of illegal income on a large scale through cryptocurrency. This is stated on the website of the department. Thus, the accused...

The Beam, confidentiality-oriented on transactions, which are based on the MimbleWimble algorithm, is rapidly growing in price - the coin has risen by 55% in just one day, and during the past week the increase was about 160%. Analysts attribute such confident and sharp growth to the increased user...

The bill on digital financial assets on the territory of the Russian Federation may be adopted by the end of next month, but the authorities have not yet decided on the vector of market regulation, said Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, in the press...

Asian stocks started to rise on Monday after Bitcoin’s price got over $10000 for the first time since the last year. As Bloomberg reported, Metaps Inc. raised 11%, GMO Internet Inc. jumped 7% to its greatest level from October 2019, Ceres Inc. climbed 4.4% and Remixpoint Inc. 6.2% in Tokyo. Woori...

Banks of the US may prefer to stay onside from Facebook’s cryptocurrency. The Libra Association is making conversations with various lenders all over the world for joining their ranks, but the banks are still staying away from this idea after being a witness to a costumers' reaction to Apple Pay...

Galaxy Digital, a cryptocurrency merchant bank of billionaire Mike Novogratz, announced that it has begun to offer cryptocurrency options to its institutional clients to hedge the risks associated with the volatility of digital assets, reported by The Block. Thus, mining farms, cryptocurrency...

The Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) decided to tighten the regulation of the cryptocurrency industry, in particular, to oblige the bitcoin exchanges and other crypto service providers (VASPs) to comply with AML and CFT (countering the financing of terrorism) procedures...

Ethereum’s native currency ETH hits the highest price in the last 10 months period and bypasses $300. The second most successful cryptocurrency in the world reached a price of $306 at 01:10 UTC. This rate was last seen in August 2018. ETH represents 9.7% gains in 24 hours and 129% gains...

Bitmain technologies Ltd., one of the chief crypto mining hardware corporations, decided to start an IPO in Hong Kong in September 2018. It even registered an IPO on the HKEX, but the attempt faced with some hardness and the corporation stopped the process. Now, as Bloomberg reported, the mining...

In the last 15 months, Bitcoin’s price became higher than $10000 on cryptocurrency exchanges for the first time. This rate was reached at 7:35 pm Eastern time. Basing on 24 hours statistics, Bitcoin is bypassing top 10 cryptocurrencies with 7% gains. A 12% hike of trading volumes brought to this...

Mark Zuckerberg wrote about the start of the Libra project in a Facebook post on June 18. People started congratulating Zuckerberg for this new achievement, while governments started diminishing this extremely unexpected project. Maxine Waters, the chair of the US House Financial Services...

All people who use or used Slack in their life divide into two categories: once, who think that it’s one of the best tools for messaging and once, who thinks that it’s just a bunch of notifications coming straight to their face 24/7. No matter which category is your, it’s obvious that Slack...

Immediately, several well-known politicians in Germany received letters threatening of “execution” from an anonymous author, who extorted bitcoins from them. About it reports Koelner Stadt Anzeiger. These threats were sent to the mayor of Cologne, Henriette Röcker, the mayor of Altena,...

Bancor Decentralized Exchange has announced that it will soon stop providing services for US residents. In a statement, the company notes that it is forced to take this step due to the uncertainty surrounding the regulation of cryptocurrency in the country. New rules will come into force on...

The famous messaging platform from Japan LINE will be able to open a cryptocurrency exchange in the country soon. LINE is really close to getting a license from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA), it can even become real in this month. Owning the license will let the company run BitMax...

There’s a new cryptocurrency exchange, which intends to help refugees. The location of the exchange is Colombia-Venezuela border, right next to the bridge over the Tachira river. Now all travellers have an opportunity of using POS service to apply crypto coins to purchase items. The location of...

Russia’s central bank chief said that the bank may create its own digital currency. On an appointment with students, chairwoman Elvira Nabiulina mentioned that it is not possible to perform this project rapidly but the majority of world’s central banks, including Russia’s, are taking into...