What are the odds of a Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) gaining Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval to trade on one of the US's major exchanges in 2018? Last October we asked a similar...
When CBOE Global Markets (NASDAQ:CBOE) announced the launch of CBOE Bitcoin (XBT) futures trading in December 2017, many believed it would be a game-changer for cryptocurrency uptake, validating...
Initial coin offerings (ICOs), the cryptocurrency world's version of initial public offerings (IPOs), have quickly become a popular way for crypto and blockchain start-ups to raise funds. However, as...
Blockchain is only as effective as the idea using it, and in this regard Cashaa is one of the most promising companies around, with a focus on delivering financial services to those who have never...
The third largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ripple (XRP) has been hit with a class action lawsuit, filed last Thursday, 3 May in the US. The token's price has tumbled over the past week, down...
With their meteoric rise and high-profile volatility it's become impossible for financial moguls, economists and governments to ignore cryptocurrencies, perhaps most especially Bitcoin. Over the...
Regardless of the underlying specifics of cryptocurrency technology, whether it's Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano or EOS for example, all digital currencies are essentially borderless. They can be...
If you’ve stopped paying attention to the day-to-day movement of cryptocurrencies it might be time to start checking again. The volatile assets which have been in something of a bear market are...
This past week the most popular cryptocurrencies suddenly started moving higher in tandem, seemingly without any fundamental catalysts. At time of writing, for the past seven days, Bitcoin is up 9.02%...
As interest in cryptocurrencies has grown, there's been a corresponding rise in mining activity by enthusiasts. Sounds promising for the asset class, right? But there's a significant downside to this...
Until just recently, mainstream consensus often dismissed the cryptocurrency market as one big bubble. But as recently noted, with more and more big name financial players beginning to trade and...
As the digital currency market matures, a number of financial moguls, some of them former crypto skeptics such as George Soros as well as the Rockefeller family, are beginning to take positions in...
On April 6, the dark web’s cryptocurrency of choice, Monero (XMR) hard forked to version 12. The controversial move was carried out expressly to combat ASIC miners. ASICs, or application...
The US's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which conducts oversight of the country's stock and options exchanges as well as the securities industry as a whole, has increasingly been cracking...
Since they first hit financial markets, and moreso as their popularity expands, cryptocurrencies—specifically the decentralized digital technology that underlies alt-currencies—have also...
This past Monday, April 2, news broke that Vitalik Buterin, a programmer who is, more significantly, a co-founder of Ethereum, the second most popular cryptocurrency by market cap had been hinting at...
