Tanzeel Akhtar

Tether (USDT) is currently the eighth most traded cryptocurrency. But its popularity belies a growing array of concerns and controversy surrounding the stablecoin. Invented in 2015, coins are issued...

As digital currencies—including Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP—gain legitimacy as investable assets, the number of exchanges that trade in cryptocurrency has also grown. As crypto adoption...

Those who hold very large amounts of Bitcoin are often referred to as Whales. Over the past few days the cryptosphere has been buzzing about a Whale wallet holding nearly $1 billion worth of BTC...

Even though cryptocurrency prices have been significantly down throughout 2018 thus far, oddly, hashrates for the Bitcoin network—signifying mining activity—have risen meaningfully. Could...

The prices of cryptocurrencies, including for the most popular tokens such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, have been hammered since the beginning of the year, as the ongoing crypto bear market continues to...

Executives at CBOE Global Markets, which in December launched trading in Bitcoin futures contracts, aren't resting on their laurels. According to an SEC release dated the end of June, the group has...

It seems like every few weeks there's another headline about some cryptocurrency exchange being hacked. Just yesterday, news broke that Israel-based Bancor, a decentralized exchange service, lost...

Though cryptocurrency prices have plummeted since the beginning of 2018, the slowing momentum hasn't stopped initial coin offerings (ICOs) from being introduced. According to statistics compiled by...

The pace of cryptocurrency regulation continues to heat up globally, but there's still little consensus on how to properly insure that investor protections make sense yet are effective, while at the...

There's been plenty of pushback from cryptocurrency and blockchain aficianados to the recently released Bank for International Settlements (BIS) report which roundly panned digital currencies and...