Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: South Korea Rises, Cryptocurrencies Falter The week began with news that Twitter’s ban on cryptocurrency ads was taking effect immediately, affecting an industry already taking a hit in interest worldwide. Studies are showing that internet searches are on…… Read More
IBM Evolution: Big Blue Is Finally Getting Serious About Cryptocurrency IBM is breaking from enterprise blockchain norms by publicly working with cryptocurrencies in a wide range of projects.… Read More
Everything You Were Afraid to Ask About Crypto Taxes There’s a lot of information to process, but ignoring it can be hazardous. The IRS is going to come after investors who are not reporting their gains.… Read More
Report: Kazakhstan’s Central Bank Wants to Ban Cryptocurrencies The chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan told Sputnik News it is seeking an all-encompassing ban on cryptocurrency exchanges and mining. … Read More
Hong Kong Exchange OKEx Rolls Back Futures Transactions Hong Kong–based cryptocurrency trading platform OKEx announced on March 30 that it was rolling back on all futures transactions due to what executives deemed an “irregular sell-off.” The exchange issued the follo…… Read More
Intel Releases Patent for New Cryptocurrency Mining Accelerator Intel, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, has filed a patent for a new Bitcoin mining chip accelerator. Entitled “Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Message Digest and Message Sch…… Read More
Cryptocurrency Exchange Bittrex Introduces Stable Tether-to-TrueUSD Pairing Bittrex, a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, has issued a trading pair between tether (USDT) and TrueUSD (TUSD), two stable tokens pegged to the U.S. dollar. While tether is issued by Tether, TrueUSD is issued …… Read More
Chile’s State-Owned Bank Cutting Ties with Crypto Exchanges Chile’s public bank will terminate the accounts of three cryptocurrency exchange clients within 10 days, according to a local news report.… Read More
What Is A Cryptocurrency Exchange? Cryptocurrencies may be purely digital and have different dynamics of transactions and storage when compared to fiat. But there are trading principles that are in common between traditional and digital money. For one, they are traded by investors and b…… Read More
AirAsia Planning Cryptocurrency-Based Rewards Program The Malaysian discount airline plans to use its proprietary BigCoin token to facilitate transactions and act as a frequent-flyer rewards program.… Read More