Hodlers are the floor on the bitcoin price.

I have never feared for the safety of anyone I have collaborated with on an interview. Many people put their lives and families at risk for what I am about to tell you. This is one of those stories I…

January 19, Bangkok-Yang Dong, vice president of Law School of China People’s University and director of the Center for Financial Technology, delivered a speech titled

Amid the frequent volatility of today’s cryptocurrency market, there’s an emerging class of tokens that wants to shed this image. As such, they’ve been dubbed “stablecoins,“ and a new one, dollar-backed TrueUSD, launched Wednesday.

Looks like they’ve removed the mention of auditing Bitfinex from their website sometime between December and now. In december:…

Ottawa police have arrested one suspect and are looking for two others after employees at a Bitcoin financial institution were held up at gunpoint Tuesday.

Vendor here. I just logged into Dream and was prompted to set whether or not I will accept Monero for orders (fuck yes, I will).

So Dream now accepts BTC, BCH, and XMR!

The CEO of Goldman Sachs has denied a report from last year which said that the investment bank was moving to launch its own bitcoin trading desk.

Grayscale Investments, which made it easier for mainstream investors to bet on Bitcoin, plans to offer four new single-currency crypto funds and another based on a basket of digital currencies by the start of April.

Apple and Google Play users are among those at risk of downloading a malicious app.

ICO review sites were left eating their positive words after a “legitimate” ICO disappeared with US$3 million.

Korean hackers tried to take down Weiss Ratings’ site overnight, the Palm Beach Gardens company reports

Kyle’s note: Giving Bitcoin a C+ and Steem a B- means this cryptocurrency rating system has no credibility at all.

An overwhelming majority (82%) of respondents have not invested in one of the three major cryptocurrencies-Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin.

Coinsquare, one of Canada’s biggest digital currency exchanges, is targeting about C$150 million ($120 million) in an initial public offering in September to help finance an overseas expansion.

Riot Blockchain Inc:

Canadian firms are vying to launch the world’s first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund but regulatory hurdles and structural problems are slowing things down, according to one fund’s chief executive officer.

Their caution is the latest sign of doubt among investors that the red-hot rise of bitcoin and its ilk is sustainable.

Sophisticated investors are split on whether or not to embrace the booming but volatile sector

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Plenty of people have serious doubts about Bitcoins–but Tuesday night a Chicago family became believers in the digital currency because of a head-spinning windfall that will help kids. Dick Johnson reports. (Published Tuesday, Jan 23, 2018)

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After 26 hours coding an application related to virtual currency, the Gator Bitcoin Club placed 4th at the Miami Bitcoin Hackathon, winning .05 bitcoin on Sunday.

Two Princeton University freshmen are venturing into the uncharted frontier of cryptocurrency finance. As they weather finals week, Hunter Sporn and Kevin Zheng are also part of a small team hard at work on their startup, Everest Capital. Using algorithms to monitor multiple factors, including price data, consumer sentiment, and social media analytics, they hope to offer cryptocurrency investment forecasts, mitigating risk in a market with immense volatility.

With the recent growth in popularity of cryptocurrencies, new coins pop up every day. Aside from popular coins such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, you can trade coins such as Dogecoin, Anti-Bitcoin, The Vegan Initiative and, soon, UT Coin.

“It has a huge effect on revenues so as a company we have to pivot,” BTCC founder and CEO Bobby Lee told Business Insider.

BitFlyer’s European COO disclosed the performance while discussing the launch of its European operations.

VersaBank, an all-digital bank based in Canada, is developing a “blockchain-based digital safety deposit box” as part of an effort to tap the tech for new services.

It may prove impossible to clamp down on the booming crypto markets (Photo: Chesnot/Getty Images)

There has been a significant increase in interest in, and the use of, cryptocurrencies in recent times. Cryptocurrencies are essentially…

Cryptocurrency operators have said transacting bitcoin business is not illegal in Ghana, but have cautioned the citizenry to understand how it works before they invest in it. This comes on the heels of the Bank of Ghana’s caution to the public against the use of digital currency like bitcoin.

Washington County opened its trial against Stephen Allwine Monday, a case with a plot stripped from the pages of a murder mystery—sex, lies, murder and a hit man for hire.

The U.S. derivatives watchdog on Wednesday said it has charged My Big Coin Pay Inc and two men over alleged fraud and misappropriation as part of an ongoing virtual currency scam, the latest in a string of recent actions against cryptocurrencies.

Cryptocurrency scammers are now targeting Google Play with malicious copycats of MyEtherWallet, asking Ethereum users to reveal their private keys.

A new ransomware is being spread called Rapid Ransomware that stays active after initially encrypting a computer and encrypts any new files that are created. While this behavior is not unique to Rapid, it is not a common behavior we see too often.

Companies in China face higher risks of new scams as they adopt new technology and mobile payment methods, according to the annual fraud report of global risk management firm Kroll  

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Usually, no one bats an eye when a cryptocurrency’s price drops 30 percent over the course of a week. This is the Wild West, after all.

Kyle’s note: I think Abra makes stablecoins kind of useless. You can already hold the value of basically any fiat currency backed by bitcoin with the Abra app.

Telecom provider IDT and international payments service group Mercury have announced that they will pilot Ripple’s xRapid for money transfers.

First such deal by a major sporting team will see club promoting CashBet at the Emirates

The Dutch regulator on financial markets AFM wants to ban risky investments that are increasingly being marketed online, often from abroad.

BitKan provides the latest price for bitcoins and the mining difficulty charts and data. The bitkan app will keep you updated anytime anywhere.

The South Korea government has today issued fines totaling 141 million won ($130,000) to domestic cryptocurrency exchanges for providing insufficient user data protection.

Are the world’s most powerful people planning a crypto clampdown?

A European Union commissioner plans to hold a meeting of public and private sector stakeholders to discuss the impact of cryptocurrencies on central banks.

Japan’s financial regulator is in no hurry to follow the U.S. and enable the listing of futures contracts linked to cryptocurrencies, according to a senior Financial Services Agency official with direct knowledge of the matter.

If investing in Bitcoin is among your plans, Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) wants you to know you may lose all your money.