Rob Wainwright of Europol says he only expects the figure to increase.

Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail announced it lost 17 million Nano cryptocurrency (XRB, formerly known as RaiBlocks), currently worth over $170 million.

The owner of an Italian crypto exchange asked for reportedly stolen coin Nano’s ledger to be “altered”, according to altcoin staff… | News | Cointelegraph

We have officially gone from “Bitcoin is a fraud” to “cryptocurrencies could potentially have a role in diversifying one’s global bond and equity portfolio”…

Decentralized identity has been touted as a major use case for Bitcoin and other public blockchains for a few years, and now Microsoft is the first tech giant to get behind the concept.

A new stock listing in Canada will soon give investors their first chance to buy into the booming market for computer chips driving most of the world’s bitcoin mining farms.

Nvidia’s chief executive officer, and founder, Jensen Huang, talks with Barron’s about crypto-currencies and how his company is advancing its GPUs after quarterly results and outlook that both topped analysts’ expectations.

As of February 2018, the path to anonymous Bitcoin is finally clear. While strong anonymity in itself was already achievable, no strategies could achieve it in a convenient and economical way. During…

While this cryptocurrency rallying cry is typically used as the price of a coin starts a climb, this time the slogan’s being used to demonstrate excitement over the progress that’s being made on a long-anticipated bitcoin code optimization.

Thailand’s central bank said on Monday it had asked financial institutions not to get involved in cryptocurrency transactions for fear of possible problems from the unregulated trading.

Data centres mining the crypto-currency will use more electricity than homes this year, an energy firm says.

Speaking with Associated Press, Smari McCarthy of the Icelandic Pirate Party floated the idea during an interview about the country's global position as a hub for bitcoin miners.

Could miners — the nodes on a blockchain that process transactions — be considered “partners” in a “company”?

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Bitcoin made up 32.7 percent of all cryptocurrency trading in South Korea in December, the lowest ratio among global exchanges, a local think tank said Sunday.

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BI PRIME: 10 bitcoin ETFs are waiting in regulatory limbo, according to JPMorgan. Such a fund could be a game changer for the cryptocurrency.

What’s supposed to be the most volatile asset in the universe is proving to be a bastion of stability compared with wild swings and carnage in global equities this week.

“Like 90 percent,” Brian Kelly estimates. “I run a fund. I have my money in that. I’ve got investments elsewhere.”

BI Prime: Technical analysts at JPMorgan see a ‘fairly high risk’ of bitcoin dropping to $4,605 a coin.

Esoteric exchange-traded products? Risk parity? Inflation fears?

There are almost 3,000 athletes competing at the Peyongchang Olympics, but there is only one who is paid in cryptocurrency. Canadian speed skater Ted-Jan Bloemen recently became the first athlete to be paid in virtual money when he struck a one-year sponsorship deal with ONG Social, a social netw…

Tree-lined streets with rose bushes in the yards and squirrels on the lawn is the all-American-type of town Kingwood soccer mom Kym Morgan lives in.

Our objective has always been to enable as many people as possible to transact with one another online. To realize this objective, we created CoinMall — a digital marketplace on which anyone can buy…

It was my pleasure to once again attend the Satoshi Roundtable; this year it was scaled up immensely and I didn’t even have a chance to talk to all of the attendees. We also had a ton of breakout…

As most of you know last week the Satoshi Roundtable took place. This is not a secret meeting of any sorts, it is however a private invite-only conference. There is a lot confusion about what this…

GMO Internet, a publicly listed IT firm headquartered in Japan, has set August as the tentative launch date for its previously announced cloud mining service.

The Electrum Personal Server promises a resource-efficient, secure and private way to use bitcoin with hardware and software wallets, connected to full …

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Dubai gold trader Regal RA DMCC is the first company in the Middle East to get a license to trade cryptocurrencies, the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre said.

A look at the headlines of late may leave you with a familiar conclusion – with all the ups and downs in the market, it’s just too early to take crypto seriously.

Russell O’Connor spoke at the recent Blockchain Protocol Analysis and Security Engineering (BPASE) 2018 conference on the new smart contract language, Simpli…

Up-and-coming cryptocurrency startup LoopX has dashed off with its investor’s money after raising over $6.5 million in an ICO.

Thousands of websites, including ones run by U.S. and UK government agencies, were infected for several hours on Sunday with code that causes web browsers to secretly mine digital currencies, technology news site The Register reported.

Yet another lawsuit seeking class-action status has been filed in Florida against BitConnect, constituting the third legal action of its kind to be initiated in the state and the fifth overall in the U.S.

A new ransomware was discovered this week by MalwareHunterTeam called Black Ruby. This ransomware will encrypt the files on a computer, scramble the file name, and then append the BlackRuby extension. To make matters worse, Black Ruby will also install a Monero miner on the computer that utilizes as much of the CPU as it scan.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied a request for information regarding the Tezos blockchain project, citing an exemption typically applied to records gathered for law enforcement activities.

Russia’s Ministry of Communications published requirements for ICO issuers. They have to have at least $1.7 mln in nominal capital… | News | Cointelegraph

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Ethereum’s more senior developers are calling for a public debate over what steps, if any, should be taken at the software level to return funds lost in high-profile hacks and incidents.

Officials in Gibraltar are reportedly weighing rules for initial coin offerings (ICOs), a move that follows a bid to develop a licensure framework for companies working with the tech.

Meet #cryptodad, a top U.S. financial regulator who’s emerged as a cult hero for a crowd that’s often suspicious of government bureaucrats: digital coin enthusiasts.

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, has stated that international regulatory action on cryptocurrencies is “inevitable.”

After the Mt. Gox cryptocurrency exchange was stung by a half-billion dollar theft in 2014, Japanese regulators swung into action.

A self-regulatory association that draws support from China’s banking and securities sectors is vowing to increase its oversight over cryptocurrency and initial coin offerings (ICO) in 2018.

China’s state-owned news agency appears to be stepping up rhetoric on over-the-counter (OTC) crypto trading and overseas initial coin offerings (ICOs), calling the blockchain use cases attempts to bypass domestic regulation.

Virtual currencies such as bitcoin have shown clear signs of a pricing bubble and consumers could lose all their money, the European Union’s banking, securities and insurance watchdogs said on Monday.

Sopnendu Mohanty, chief fintech officer of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), voiced his concerns about speculative cryptocurrency trading.

The regulator of Abu Dhabi'sinternational financial centre said it could create rules forexchanges handling virtual currencies, in a sign thatauthorities in the United Arab Emirates may allow trade incryptocurrencies such as bitcoin to develop.The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) isconsidering whether to establish a framework for virtualcurrency exchanges, the FSRA, which supervises the Abu DhabiGlobal Market (ADGM), said on Sunday.