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India’s crypto trade is bouncing back after the Supreme Court of India lifted banking restrictions for exchanges in March. The crypto market there had slowed…
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) detailed in a new report how illicit activity in cryptocurrencies could be identified, including an overview of exchanges in…
Brian Armstrong, co-founder and CEO of leading crypto exchange Coinbase, lambasted Apple Inc over the weekend, claiming the tech giant was undermining people’s ability to…
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offered grants of up to $625,000 to tech companies who develop ways to aid the tax agency in tracing…
While crypto pioneer Erik Voorhees was thinking about the concept for the company he founded, ShapeShift, the name just came to him one day. “I…
The following projects are those crypto asset projects who share the values of freedom and liberty. These coins are listed in alphabetical order, and have…
Microsoft has applied for a patent of a cryptocurrency system using body activity data. In the filing, the multinational conglomerate argued that, as a part…
Komodo CTO Kadan Stadelmann has been doing this stuff most of his life. His background is in IT, engineering, and software development. He comes particularly…
Sprocket Inc. is a new kind of crypto exchange. Featuring an order book, routing engine, asset management, advanced trading, and wallet, Sprocket’s platform is setting…
Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard noted key risks associated with cryptocurrency on Wednesday, including Facebook Libra in particular. The Board of Governors of the Federal…
State Street today announced it would launch a new digital asset pilot with Gemini Trust Company, LLC, a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian launched by the…
ING, with $980 billion in total assets is the largest bank in the Netherlands, is moving into the crypto custody market. Citing “people familiar with…
Deutsche Bank says that inflation could become “more embedded” in the world economy, leading people to later question fiat money. The bank predicts “demand for…
The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), which was set up in 2008 to combat risks to the financial sector after the financial crisis, believes stablecoins…
Nordea, a Danish Bank, won a court case allowing it to prevent staff from buying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Nordea first banned its employees from…
The Bank of Russia supports a ban on cryptocurrency payments. The Bank says that “private cryptocurrencies cannot be equated with fiat money and cannot be…
Federal prosecutors accused Virgil Griffith, a research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation , of helping North Korea evade US sanctions. Formally charged with violating the…
U.K.-based Cashaa, a cryptocurrency banking platform, has launched bank accounts for U.S.-based crypto firms in U.S. dollars. Cashaa is offering the accounts through a partnership…
The co-founders behind Lucid Sight have worked in the gaming industry for a couple decades, long before launching the MLB-Licensed MLB Crypto Baseball. When the iPhone…
Last week, almost every major online brokerage company – including Charles Schwab (SCHW), TD Ameritrade (AMTD) and E-Trade (ETFC) – stopped charging commissions, making it…
Launched in 2018, Metronome is an autonomous cryptocurrency originally developed by Bloq and its BloqLabs group, both led by former Bitcoin core developer and Metronome…
John Burbank, a global investor for 18 years, spoke April 20 at StartEngine ICO 2.0 Spring Summit in Santa Monica, California. The San Francisco-based founder…
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced that starting in September it will disallow U.S. residents from using its flagship exchange. Instead, it will launch…
Crypto Wendy, who is keeping her eye on Bitcoin ETFs, futures and institutional interest in the crypto market these days, wants you to know that…
If you wanted to learn about the five pillars of an effective Anti-Money Laundering (AML) program — i.e., internal controls; the designation of a Bank…
Cameron Chell believes the cryptocurrency payments industry is highly misunderstood. “There are a couple of philosophical camps out there,” he says. “There’s the purist camp,…
Samsung’s Galaxy S10 ships worldwide in March and crypto enthusiasts reacted with excitement over the new feature of a cold wallet for storing Bitcoin (BTC)…
GoldSilverBitcoin had the opportunity to sit down with the Mycelium project, which was started with the goal of creating an independent, self-powered, ad-hoc network and…