Cryptocurrency Analysis & Opinion

Blockchain technology, which allows information to be distributed on a digital ledger that details previous transactions but which cannot be copied, was originally pioneered by the developer of...

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 specific...

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...

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...

During the month of March we saw another action-packed, topsy-turvy, roller coaster ride in the cryptocurrency market. A number of key developments over the past four weeks seemed to sway investor...

Number of initial coin offerings (ICOs) expected to fall in March 2018 U.S. regulation around ICOs is hazy and a number of projects are under investigation ICOs failing because of rampant phishing and...

G20's FSB acknowledges cryptocurrencies pose no danger to the global economy IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde posts “Addressing the Dark Side of the Crypto World” ECB believes...

Yesterday's move by search giant Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) to ban ads for a variety of financial instruments including ICOs and cryptocurrencies—which follows a similar ban by Facebook (NASDAQ:FB),...

Global financial services firms, like so many other industries right now, might just be on the cusp of massive disruption via blockchain and the digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum and...

by Noreen BurkeA raft of recent announcements relating to the intersection of traditional financial services and fintech show that the banking industry is in for major disruption, according to Jessica...

As cryptocurrencies gain traction globally, a number of firms have taken steps to integrate digital currencies into the mainstream economy, enabling these new assets to be used as a form of payment...