So you want to trade bitcoin futures? First, learn the Chicago exchanges' highly counterintuitive naming system for monthly contracts. | Continue reading
Former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said he did not advise people to invest in bitcoin, as was stated in a post pretending to be the NZ Herald. | Continue reading
Indiegogo is getting into the initial coin offering (ICO) game, seeking to become the "go-to" platform for the emerging market. | Continue reading
A group of creditors of the defunct bitcoin exchange Mt Gox has filed a new court petition in an effort to prevent a possible billion-dollar payout to its CEO. | Continue reading
President Donald Trump has signed a $700 billion military spending bill that includes a mandate for a blockchain cybersecurity research study. | Continue reading
The price of bitcoin may be at all-time highs, but a wave of new investors could quickly tilt the market dynamic, analysis suggests. | Continue reading
Digital currency startup Coinbase says it has paused trading for litecoin and ethereum. | Continue reading
Cryptocurrencies have proven to be a unique challenge for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the agency's chairman has said. | Continue reading
Far from a bubble, bitcoin is on the path to becoming a significant part of global money supply, according to trader and analyst Willy Woo. | Continue reading
A Goldman Sachs executive has said there is "no evidence" that bitcoin's price gains have reduced demand for gold. | Continue reading
The number of blockchain jobs posted this year increased by 207 percent, according to data provided to CoinDesk from Indeed.com. | Continue reading
New users are crowding into the litecoin market, driving up one of the market's oldest and most accessible assets. | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency investment firm Bitwise has raised $4 million in seed funding as it launches a new fund for digital assets. | Continue reading
Following yesterday's all-time high, bitcoin bulls look set to push prices as high as $20,000 over the next few days. | Continue reading
Blockchain platform Waves is founding a self-regulatory body to set standards for initial coin offerings and the blockchain industry. | Continue reading
Think 2017 was a fluke? Not according to blockchain advisor Oliver Bussmann who makes the case next year will see further growth. | Continue reading
A Hong Kong finance regulator has published a new circular on bitcoin futures contracts and other cryptocurrency-related investment products. | Continue reading
Sanity? You weren't going to find it in the crypto world in 2017 according to author David Gerard. Insanity, though, there's plenty to go around... | Continue reading
The first day of trading for CBOE's bitcoin futures contracts is over and the day largely went according to plan, according to its CEO. | Continue reading
U.S. and Canadian authorities appear determined to make an example of an ICO believed to have raised $15 million. | Continue reading
The price of bitcoin has pushed back above $17,000, hitting a new all-time high on CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) | Continue reading
You may be able to trade the bitcoin cash market anonymously, but you cannot do the same with futures. | Continue reading
CBOE's chief executive is pushing back at suggestions that the exchange's newly-launched bitcoin futures market was hastily done. | Continue reading
A California-based company has refunded a $15 million initial coin offering following an investigation by the SEC. | Continue reading
Public filings suggest that the launch of bitcoin futures products has renewed a push to create exchange-traded funds tied to the cryptocurrency. | Continue reading
Bitcoin gold is well bid today, but chart analysis suggests the upturn in prices may be ephemeral. | Continue reading
Decentralizing Airbnb? A new blockchain protocol aims to disrupt nothing less than the entirety of the sharing economy. | Continue reading
The maker of multi-signature cryptocurrency wallets turned profitable this year, as the institutional user base it had long courted finally arrived. | Continue reading
Having landed on Wall Street with a bang, bitcoin is solidly bid and looks set to scale new heights. | Continue reading
Swiss banking giant UBS and a group of major banks plan to launch a live application later this month using the ethereum blockchain. | Continue reading
Parity Technologies has just released a proposal for reclaiming the millions in ether frozen last month due to a fault in its code. | Continue reading
South Korea's NongHyup Bank has joined the R3 distributed ledger consortium, saying it will launch a pilot blockchain project. | Continue reading
The French government has given the official nod for trading unlisted securities using blockchain technology. | Continue reading
The head of the SEC's investment management office said the agency is weighing questions related to funds that plan to hold cryptocurrencies. | Continue reading
Lawmakers in Gibraltar approved a piece of legislation last week that fits into the government's broader plans for blockchain. | Continue reading
A presentation by the bank's wealth management execs declared that blockchain technology has a lot of potential, but was lukewarm of cryptocurrencies. | Continue reading
The CBOE's website became unavailable just as it launched its first bitcoin futures contracts on Sunday. | Continue reading
Cboe may use information gleaned from futures trading to make a case to the Securities and Exchange Commission to allow bitcoin-linked ETF. | Continue reading
Forks offer ideological leaders the chance to put their ideas on improving protocols into practice without getting bogged down in endless bickering. | Continue reading
Days before a major futures product launch, bitcoin suffered heavy losses Saturday, a trend that so far appears to be continuing into Sunday. | Continue reading
One of the most talked about technologies in development for bitcoin is the Lightning Network. But what does it do, and when might it be ready? | Continue reading
Utility token ICOs are not equity, but sellers may still be giving up more value than they realize if they go down that path. | Continue reading
The zcash development team is planning a series of network upgrades for next year, according to a roadmap published today. | Continue reading
Circle has raised $20 million in a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) sale for its ethereum-based "CENTRE" payments network. | Continue reading
Mining pool ViaBTC is launching a new cryptocurrency exchange based in the U.K., the company announced today. | Continue reading
One of the largest online gold dealers has announced that it will begin accepting bitcoin. | Continue reading
Online classifieds marketplace Craigslist has added a feature that lets users specify that they accept cryptocurrency payments. | Continue reading
Bitcoin cash (BCH) is well bid today, but a close look at the numbers indicates the positive move could be deceptive. | Continue reading