Bitcoin & cryptocurrency news

The Finance Ministry of the South Korean government announced a plan to tax initial coin offerings and digital currencies in...

Global Bitcoin payment service BitPay has warned customers of a vulnerability on a third-party NodeJS package used by the Copay and...

A twenty-one-year-old New Yorker has stolen cryptocurrency worth a million dollars from a Silicon Valley executive by exploiting a tactic known...

Brazil's tax regulator, the Department of Federal Revenue, is requiring local cryptocurrency exchanges to report their operations on a monthly...

Blockchain-based virtual game CryptoKitties has raised US$15M in financing led by Venrock, with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures) and...

Tether Limited, the issuer of stablecoin Tether (USDT) wholly-owned by Bitfinex, has opened a bank account with Bahamas-based Deltec Bank. The...

The president of BaFin, Germany's financial watchdog, is supportive of a global regulatory framework for initial coin offerings (ICOs). Critical...

Coincheck, the Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange victim of a $500 million worth theft, has resumed new account openings, customer deposits, and...

Aijt Pai, U.S. FCC Chair, has said it's a challenge to level the playing field between emerging technologies, including blockchain,...

The Indian Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Government to share its view on cryptocurrency within two weeks. The court...

A 23-year-old Australian woman has been arrested over the alleged theft of AU$450,000 worth of XRP tokens following a 10-month...

Denmark-based cryptography specialist Sepior has partnered with Japanese online financial services firm SBI Group to jointly develop a proprietary wallet...

A research report by the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX) argued that fintech firms using cryptocurrency should be subjected "to the...

Online Swiss bank Swissquote announced the launch of its ICO offering, becoming the first bank worldwide to allow customers to...

Hong Kong's financial watchdog is looking to tighten investor protection by regulating cryptocurrency trading platforms. The Securities and Futures Commission...

A report on cryptocurrency theft published by cyber security firm CipherTrace found that hacking of exchanges and trading platforms has...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the European Union's financial watchdog, has announced it is taking the same approach...

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said the world is on the verge of another financial crash....

As the cryptocurrency market comes under attack from numerous sources of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt), Litecoin founder Charlie Lee has...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental organization founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7 to combat...