AMD Sees Q2 Drop in GPU Sales to Crypto Miners GPU sales for cryptocurrency mining fell quarter-over-quarter, AMD announced in its Q2 report on Wednesday.… Read More
US Lawmakers Want FinCEN Mandate to Explicitly Cover Crypto A new bill facing the U.S. Congress would have FinCEN more closely examine the cryptocurrency space, according to public documents.… Read More
Rogue Employee Mined 500K Bitcoins in 2011, Qiwi CEO Says An employee at Qiwi reportedly mined roughly 500,000 bitcoins in 2011 by hijacking the company’s payment terminals, CEO Sergey Solonin said Wednesday.… Read More
CFTC Chair Says Regulator Is ‘Behind’ on Blockchain The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is “falling behind” in understanding blockchain technology, chairman Christopher Giancarlo said. … Read More
Tron Foundation Officially Completes Acquisition of BitTorrent File sharing software provider BitTorrent announced Tuesday that its acquisition by the Tron Foundation is now officially complete.… Read More
Crypto Security Startup BitGo to Custody Zcash Cryptocurrency security startup BitGo says it is adding privacy coin zcash to its supported crypto assets.… Read More
The First Augur Assassination Markets Have Arrived People are now placing bets on whether public figures will be assassinated on decentralized prediction market Augur.… Read More
Coinbase Launches Crypto Gift Card Service in Europe Coinbase now offers a way for users to purchase retail goods and services with cryptos, thanks to a deal with a digital gift card service in Europe.… Read More
Singapore Airlines’ Blockchain-Based Loyalty Program Takes Off Singapore Airlines has officially launched its blockchain-based loyalty program for frequent customers.… Read More
BlockFi Raises $52.5 Million in Round Lead by Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Crypto-lending firm BlockFi raised $52.5 million in a fundraising round led by Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital.… Read More