This weekend, the finance ministers of the world’s largest economies were told that cryptocurrencies “do not pose any risk” to the global financial system. The two-day G20 summit starts today in Argentina but Mark Carney, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Chairman, made a statement just before the chiefs headed to the summit. The FSB is…
Have the crypto fields turned green? Ripple (XRP), NEM (XEM), and Cardano (ADA) shoot up today, along with every other coin in the top 100 cryptos. Which coins are making news for themselves and which are hitching along for the ride? Ripple (XRP) Ripple is currently selling for $0.699502, which puts the coin up 24.99%…
The cryptocurrency market is rebounding after suffering a big hit from Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL). However, it was just announced that the Financial Stability Board does not consider cryptocurrencies a “risk.” It remains unclear as to why the market is surging back so strongly but this might be why. The FSB coordinates the financial regulation for the…
Welcome to Day 2 of Crypto Madness! We at cryptocurrencynews.com, CCN, are pleased to bring the fans the ICO showdown. Today’s competitors: Sapien ICO vs. Sharpay ICO. Check out Day 3 of Crypto Madness The Rules Each match-up winner will not be based on the project’s specific concept, whitepaper, or team. Instead, in the ultimate test, the winner…
Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin protocol was the first to successfully apply the concept of a distributed public ledger to peer-to-peer transactions. In line with the decentralized nature of the technology, Nakamoto released the protocol as open source meaning anyone could take the protocol, modify it and their own p2p transaction network. As new ideas came to…
Late in February, Bitcoin.com published a story that made big waves in the cryptocurrency world. In it, the piece referenced statistics from Tokendata and came to the conclusion that 46 percent out of the 902 blockchain projects that conducted token sales in 2017 have already failed. 142 projects failed at the funding stage by not…
Late in February, Bitcoin.com published a story that made big waves in the cryptocurrency world. In it, the piece referenced statistics from Tokendata and came to the conclusion that 46 percent out of the 902 blockchain projects that conducted token sales in 2017 have already failed. 142 projects failed at the funding stage by not…
The cryptocurrency market has just dipped below the $200 billion mark, for the first time in six weeks. This market correction has Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) to blame because mid-week, the company announced that they would be banning cryptocurrency ICO ads on their platform. Source: CoinMarketCap As you can see from the chart above, the market has…
Initial Coin Offerings In the past 12 months, there has been an explosion of sales of digital tokens through ICOs that are viewed by regulators in many jurisdictions as a form of crowdfund investing using cryptocurrencies. These ICOs often raise money through white papers that generally describe the individuals involved in the project, provide details…
Initial Coin Offerings In the past 12 months, there has been an explosion of sales of digital tokens through ICOs that are viewed by regulators in many jurisdictions as a form of crowdfund investing using cryptocurrencies. These ICOs often raise money through white papers that generally describe the individuals involved in the project, provide details…
