Tanzeel Akhtar

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...

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...

As cryptocurrencies gain broader prominence as an asset class, they've become the focus of a growing number mainstream investors. But many remain fearful of the digital assets—spooked by their...

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...

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...