Ripple Report: XRP Sales Dropped 54% in Q2, But Customer Base Grew Ripple’s sales of the XRP cryptocurrency fell 54 percent to $75.53 million in Q2, but the firm gained more customers, its latest report says.… Read More
SEC Delays Decision on Asset Manager’s Bitcoin ETFs Until September The SEC has delayed a decision on whether to approve five bitcoin-related ETFs, public documents reveal.… Read More
Meet Honeyminer: The App That Lets You Earn Bitcoin With a Laptop Again Honeyminer’s downloadable app isn’t the most profitable way to mine cryptocurrency, but it may be one of the easiest methods to date.… Read More
South Korean Telecoms Giant KT Has Built Its Own Blockchain The second largest mobile carrier in South Korea has launched its own blockchain network and aims to apply the tech across several sectors.… Read More
UK Central Bank Says New Payments System Will Be Blockchain Friendly The Bank of England confirmed it is going to update its Real-Time Gross Settlement system to potentially interact with blockchain-based forms.… Read More
Crypto Stock Exchange Operator Pleads Guilty to Fraud Jon Montroll, who ran the now-defunct bitcoin investment platform BitFunder, has plead guilty to securities fraud and obstruction of justice charges.… Read More
US Chamber of Commerce Calls for Clarity on ICOs The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the SEC and CFTC to provide clear guidance on initial coin offerings to encourage more token sales to launch.… Read More
Google Cloud Inks Deal With Blythe Masters’ Blockchain Startup Google Cloud is teaming up with distributed ledger startup Digital Asset to provide development tools for blockchain apps.… Read More
Lufthansa, SAP Competition Seeks Ideas for Blockchain in Aviation Lufthansa has partnered with software giant SAP to launch a blockchain competition seeking ideas for blockchain applications in the airline industry.… Read More
Mastercard Had An Outage, So Crypto Had a Field Day Mastercard suffered an outage last week that led to a hold-up for some transactions – and crypto supporters on social media quickly pounced.… Read More