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In a move that may wrinkle some noses, the European Central Bank (ECB) has announced that they will no longer be offering protection for covered deposits and that withdrawals will be limited when a bank

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong officially introduced Coinbase Custody, a platform targeted at institutional investors. The new product is intended to be ultra-secure: According to Armstrong, Coinbase currently

At press time, the Bitcoin network is currently facing a backlog of over 135,000 unconfirmed transactions and fees have soared. This comes days after the proponents of the SegWit2x scaling solution announced

As non-profit cryptocurrency research institution CoinCenter’s Neeraj K. Agrawal wrote, 2017 was the year in which Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies went mainstream. Wall Street Numerous major financial

In a video published on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister (PM) Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the operation of traditional banks will eventually become obsolete and could be replaced by Bitcoin. He based

The US chief financial watchdog, the Financial Stability Oversight Board (FSOC), claims that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do not pose a threat to existing financial systems around the world. In its

Bitcoin futures trading volume in its first week was only a fraction of cash Bitcoin transactions. Futures volume has been abysmal at $60 mln per day, compared to the cash transactions of $8.5 bln each

Digital currency operators and Bitcoin exchanges are the most common targets of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks according to a report titled “Q3 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape.” Imperva

Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency universe have created numerous records in 2017, almost on a monthly basis. On Jan. 1 this year, the combined market capitalization of cryptocurrencies stood at $17.7 bln.

The economy globally has continued its strong uptick throughout 2017, partially spurred on by very low interest rates and massive investment into various markets. However, according to Deutsche Bank Chief

OTA, the digital network designed for the Internet of Things (IoT) has recently seen a massive increase in the value of their cryptocurrency, MIOTA. According to CoinMarketCap, the company has moved from

With 2.2 bln global gamers and $109 bln in annual sales, the gaming industry is a growing giant. Of those annual sales, $94.4 bln is derived substantially from the sale of direct-from-publisher digital

Blockchain artificial intelligence platform SingularityNET has quadrupled its ICO hard cap and extended its token sale. After receiving what a statement called “overwhelming demand” for its AGI token,

Everyone celebrated when the news of futures was announced as it signaled a new dawn of adoption for big money investors, and it also added a lot of legitimacy for the digital currency. The announcement

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded a patent to the proposed digital currency exchange system filed by the country’s second-biggest bank, Bank of America. The system will allow the

The Commodities King, Dennis Gartman, continues to say that he will not buy Bitcoin, in spite of recent news that the cryptocurrency has been approved for futures trading on a number of exchanges Speaking

In the midst of Bitcoin's wider awareness and adoption, the European Central Bank (ECB), which has previously evaluated Blockchain technology numerous times, seems to be quiet and distant from all the

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has authorized the operation of four new virtual currency exchanges in the country as of early December 2017. The approved exchanges are already the second batch

Bitcoin temporarily hit $12,000 and a $200 bln market cap Tuesday before correcting as prices continue their remarkable week-long surge. As major exchanges such as Coinbase, Bitstamp, Kraken and others