Investment in Chinese FinTech continued at a pace in 2016 despite markets in other countries experiencing a slowdown in the sector. | Continue reading
A 56-year old man from the city of Napier in New Zealand has plead guilty to multiple charges of blackmail following his attempts to extort several major companies in the country with bitcoin. Gregory David O’Neill was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison by the Nap … | Continue reading
The Czech Republic has introduced a law restricting bitcoin, according to an article by Elizabeth Vejvodova, editor of Pravni radce (Legal Counselor). | Continue reading
The topics to be discussed are virtual currencies and the applications of blockchain technology will be discussed at an upcoming Fintech seminar in Dubai. | Continue reading
Respectonomy, a decentralized, self-moderated social network that will allow users to share content without any fear of censorship and be rewarded for it, has announced its initial coin offering for the month of February. The site is offering a 25% bonus on the first day, Feb. 1. … | Continue reading
Akasha has launched an alpha version of its peer to peer ethereum based decentralized social network. Can it compete with current offerings? | Continue reading
Ethereum finds itself at a crossroad as developers of the C++ client decide whether to allow corporations to develop on top of the protocol. | Continue reading
Fintech is democratizing financial services, creating new benefits for businesses and consumers, but also posing new risks, Mark Carney, g | Continue reading
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has expressed that FinTech requires regulatory oversight because of its potential to threaten financial stability. | Continue reading
Bitcoin is approaching once again the arc which stopped the advance in the recent past. Here is an 8-hour chart of that chart: | Continue reading
Bitcoin's transaction backlog has reached $250 million. Complaints are reaching fever pitch as angry users take to public spaces to vent their frustration. | Continue reading
The Imperial College London has teamed up with Blockchain, a software platform for digital assets, to launch the Digital Asset Research Lab. | Continue reading
Thailand’s Fintech sector has called for the government to introduce regulations and support homegrown industry startups in the face of an increasing trend of external operators moving into the Thai market. | Continue reading
I wrote an article just yesterday in which I suggested a target of $1,000 was on the horizon for bitcoin. | Continue reading
Aeternity, a blockchain development lab in Liechtenstein, has announced a public testnet, inviting interested parties to download the code on GitHub and run a smart contract test. | Continue reading
Steemit, a decentralized social media platform that rewards users for delivering commentary, images, videos, and articles to the site, is creating native Steemit apps for use on mobile iOS and Android among several upgrades for 2017, the company announced. Among the upgrades, Ste … | Continue reading
New York's department of financial services has approved bitcoin exchange Coinbase's application for a virtual currency and money transmitters license, making it one of the largest bitcoin companies to gain the department’s approval. | Continue reading
HolyTransaction Trade is a new universal cryptocurrency wallet in Spain that enables bitcoin and Euro instant conversions. | Continue reading
In significant news coming out of China, China’s central bank – the People’s Bank of China – has revealed that it carried out on-site checks on major Chinese bitcoin exchanges in Beijing and Shanghai. | Continue reading
Anthony Murgio pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to operate an illicit bitcoin exchange, according to The Palm Beach Post. He will be sentenced in June. | Continue reading
In a significant endorsement of blockchain technology, bitcoin’s underlying innovation, the research arm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) – India’s central bank – has tested blockchain solutions for core banking processes in the country. | Continue reading
Funding Circle, a UK-based Fintech unicorn startup has received £40m from government-owned British Business Bank to directly fund small businesses through its platform | Continue reading
KeepKey, a hardware bitcoin wallet, has advised customers that a hacker on December 25th got into the owner’s email account using the wallet’s account recovery mechanism and tried resetting passwords linked to the compromised email address, according to a KeepKey blog. The compan … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has made history, surpassing the value of gold and reaching all time high at 5PM London time on the 4th of January 2017. | Continue reading
An article published by Colombian publication PanAm Post suggests bitcoin, and digital currencies in general, are now illegal in Colombia | Continue reading
Nigeria does not need to be one of the countries adopting a wait-and-see approach to regulate Bitcoin use and its adoption if it wants to beat undocumented capital outflow and block a potential means of funding extremists’ activities. | Continue reading
Bitcoin is being held back by the 2nd arc of the 5th arc pair on the 8-hour chart. | Continue reading
Everledger entered into a strategic partnership with IBM to develop and deploy a blockchain-based system that will be utilized to crackdown wine fraudsters. | Continue reading
Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka, founder and CEO of big data startup DeepSingularity, tweeted last week a sneak peak into what IBM is doing in terms of blockchain work. | Continue reading
“There are a lot of people working on layer 2 solutions that are waiting for Segwit,” says Bitfinex Chief Security Officer Phil Potter in a discussion between core developers, bitcoin ecosystem participants and Bitcoin enthusiast Roger Ver. “If Segwit doesn't happen, think of the … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has now gained nearly 15% in value over the past three days, surpassing a $14 billion market capitalization for the first time in its history as price registered a high of $913.41 today. | Continue reading
FinTech is growing in Japan, but at a slower pace. With Asia tapping into the industry, Japan is establishing itself as a late adopter. | Continue reading
Elon Musk, head of Tesla and SpaceX, joined President-elect Donald Trump’s team of Advisories, as did Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. | Continue reading
Nigeria's struggling economy, which has plunged into recession and seen inflation of 8.3%, has led to growing adoption of bitcoin. | Continue reading
Venezuela's economy is crumbling following a plunge in oil prices and monetary mismanagement that has led to hyperinflation. Can bitcoin help? | Continue reading
Bitcoin Transaction Fees have increased by more than 1,000% in USD terms this year according to Jameson Lopp, engineer at BitGo. | Continue reading
When Ross Ulbricht was found guilty for administering the darknet marketplace known as the Silk Road, it marked the beginning of a campaign by supporters to at least lessen the then 30-year-old’s life sentence. | Continue reading
Segregated Witness or SegWit, a proposed upgrade to the Bitcoin protocol, could become the new iteration of the Bitcoin code if 95 percent of the hash power adopts the solution. | Continue reading
Bill Gates and president-elect Donald J. Trump had a telephone during which the Microsoft founder discussed his climate change views. | Continue reading
Loyyal, a New York-based blockchain-based loyalty and rewards platform, has snagged a contract with Dubai Holding, a multinational investment conglomerate. The partnership is a part of the Dubai Future Accelerators program, the government-supported accelerator program that has no … | Continue reading
Big banks are threatening to ship British jobs overseas and cripple the economy if the nation’s Treasury fails to slow the nation’s exit from the European Union. This would leave Britain under the thumb of Brussels for longer than the nation’s voters have demanded. The outrage ha … | Continue reading
The IRS asked Coinbase to produce records for users over a wide time period: two years. Members of the Bitcoin Community have expressed outrage over this. | Continue reading
“Blockchain has the potential to transform the way industries conduct business transactions,” writes IBM in their most recent press release. “This will require a complete ecosystem of industry players working together, allowing businesses to benefit from the network effect of blo … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is clawing its way back to a range among the highs achieved in 2016. Today’s high of $772. 01 sees the value of the cryptocurrency within touching distance of the year-high mark scaled in June during the lead-up to this year’s halving event. | Continue reading
Bitstamp announced that after recent regulatory constraints imposed by the State of Washington it will cease to serve customers from The Evergreen State. | Continue reading
Blockchain applications could see further development in India after a new partnership between technology behemoth Microsoft and advisory firm KPMG, commonly known one of the “Big Four” auditing firms in the world. | Continue reading
The Vietnamese government is working toward building and introducing a comprehensive legal framework surrounding virtual currencies like bitcoin. | Continue reading
The city of Lucknow in Northern India has seen its first official case involving bitcoin fraud. | Continue reading