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
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
China’s Answer to Reddit Is Launching a Crypto Token One of the oldest social networking platforms in China is launching its own crypto token in an apparent bid to boost declining user activity.… Read More
Japanese Crypto Exchanges Push for Limit on Margin Trading Borrowing A self-regulatory organization formed by crypto exchanges in Japan is proposing a limit on how much investors can borrow when margin trading… 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
Tezos Hires ‘Big Four’ Firm PwC to Conduct External Audit “Big Four” financial firm PriceWaterHouse Coopers Switzerland will audit the Tezos Foundation, the latter announced Monday.… 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
Another $1 Billion Blockchain Fund to Launch With Government Backing The Chinese city of Nanjing is launching a fund worth over $1 billion to support development of blockchain projects.… 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