Verge Cryptocurrency Suffers Its Second Hack in Less Than Two Months Cryptocurrency Verge has suffered what executives are claiming is a DDoS attack. The platform is experiencing a serious delay in its blockchain, which has led to security concerns amongst users and worries about …… Read More
Bitmain Leads Circle’s $110 Million Round; Teams Up to Create Stable Coin Bitmain, the largest of the Bitcoin mining operations, is putting its muscle behind mobile payments and cryptocurrency trading firm Circle by leading a $110 million Series E round of funding, the companies announ…… Read More
A Boost for Privacy in Cryptocurrency: Gemini Announces Support for Zcash Zcash just became the first privacy coin to earn itself a fiat trading pair on a mainstream American exchange.On Monday, May 14, 2018, a Gemini blog post announced that the Winklevoss-run exchange would list Zcas…… Read More
DMG Blockchain Solutions Launches BitScore AML Risk API for Crypto Exchanges and Payment Platforms Vancouver-based blockchain and cryptocurrency firm DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc. has announced the official launch of its BitScore web API. The platform is designed to provide cryptocurrency deposit and withdrawa…… Read More
Venezuela Offers India Discounted Oil to Boost Petro Confidence Venezuela has reportedly offered the Indian government a fantastic deal: a 30 percent discount on crude oil imports. The only condition being that the oil must be purchased through the nation’s newly minted crypt…… Read More
Cryptocurrency Project Ravencoin Gets Back to P2P Asset Transfer Basics The cryptocurrency project “Ravencoin” published its first white paper on April 3, 2018. Entitled “Ravencoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic System for the Creation and Transfer of Assets,” the document is authored by…… Read More
Why Token Curated Registries Could Become the Lists of the Future People have a fetish for lists: frequent versus infrequent; business versus personal. There are grocery lists, to-do lists, bucket lists, Oscar nomination lists, top charts, top movies and top restaurants. By uti…… Read More
Op Ed: Why Korea Could Be the First Cryptocurrency-Powered Nation Korea has many of the pieces of the puzzle to become the first “Crypto-Powered Nation,” one that runs on blockchains and supports a crypto economy. Here’s what I learned during an intense two and a half days ther…… Read More
U.K. Fintech Sector Strategy Announces Crypto Asset Task Force Today, March 22, 2018, at the government’s second International Fintech Conference, Exchequer Chancellor Philip Hammond announced the launch of a Fintech Sector Strategy that looks to keep the U.K. on the forefro…… Read More
What Big Tech’s Ban Might Mean for Cryptocurrency Advertising Following Facebook’s lead, Google has announced it will ban all cryptocurrency advertising on its platforms by June 2018. This restriction applies to all Google-owned platforms including YouTube and any websites …… Read More