Just a day after being issued with a warning by the Japanese Financial Services Authority over its lack of registration in the county, the Japanese crypto exchange Binance announced it would close its Tokyo office and set up in Malta. The jump from Japan to the small Mediterranean nation is a big change in financial…
I had a chat with The Financial Times the other day, and provided lots of background as to why I don’t think cryptocurrencies are the choice of criminals. The comment that was reported was the following: Chris Skinner, a financial technology author, said it was “complete rubbish” to suggest the main use of cryptocurrencies was criminal. “There…
Update: As the days draw closer to the Tron Foundation’s test net launch, TRX continues to rise. Much of the community around the project is buzzing as this will be one step closer to a working and tangible product. Just this week, TRX’s price has risen 75%. Tron’s test net will be launched in a…
Welcome to Day 9 of Crypto Madness – Quarter Finals! We at cryptocurrencynews.com, CCN, are pleased to bring the fans the ICO showdown. Today’s competitors: Omnitude vs. Viola.AI. Omnitude beat HybridBlock on the first day of our competition, back on March 15th. Viola.AI faced off against Datecoin back on March 17th and has now advanced to…
Cryptocurrency gained mainstream adoption towards the latter half of last year. Many individuals decided to jump on board with the altcoins that would make them the most money, in the quickest amount of time. Most had zero to little investing experience, and when the market corrected the second week of January, all hell broke loose.…
Cryptocurrency gained mainstream adoption towards the latter half of last year. Many individuals decided to jump on board with the altcoins that would make them the most money, in the quickest amount of time. Most had zero to little investing experience, and when the market corrected the second week of January, all hell broke loose.…
HomeSponsored PostForty Seven Bank Releases API now Allowing Developers Worldwide to Submit to their App Store Forty Seven Bank, a new banking startup currently in the final stretches of its ICO, reached a huge milestone this week when it publically released version one of its API (Application Programming Interface) giving developers globally the opportunity to…
Bitcoin went mainstream as an investment in 2017 — hitting an all-time high of around $20,000 in December. Not surprisingly, numbers like these also drew the attention of tax authorities around the world, with many announcing plans go after digital currency investors. While the chance of being audited is typically quite low (for example in…
It’s a known fact that the cryptocurrency sector and the blockchain sector have their fair share of issues. In fact, just last week, a team of researchers in Germany discovered that child pornography was being stored in Bitcoin’s blockchain. It can’t get much more controversial than that, can it? That worst of it aside, the…
Pablo Escobar’s brother announces his own crypto and claims Bitcoin is the CIA’s creation. The world of cryptocurrencies never ceases to surprise and this week the most peculiar news comes thanks to Pablo Escobar Gaviria’s brother (the most famous and drug lord of all time.) Roberto Escobar Gaviria, founder of Escobar Inc. who not only…
