Whilst the bank has filed patents for blockchain, they have made statements in the opposite direction. Could it be they they see the advantages but like turning a huge bus around, they cannot change quickly

It looks like FB is planning to move into the crypto world, per this article Either by adding a cryptocurrency to it's platform or by maybe adding user data to a blockchain. Isn't that what Steem is? Time

Whilst the IMF are reporting that 15 central banks have or are planning national cryto's, there are some interesting quotes in this article. The statements that the use of cash is reducing is the most

With an acquisition, the market opens up for Coinify in EU. Users can now send fiat payments from their BTC account

Having your social media tracked and searchable on the blockchain seems like big brother going to far. Once on the net always on the net, but to have current or potential employers able to check up on

USA coinbase users can now withdraw funds to their Paypal account, and for now this seems to be free of charges. This provides a new way to convert BTC to fiat.

Mass adoption of anything requires users. To get the users they need to know about it. To know about it they need to search. So when Bitcoin & XRP are in the top rankings of the top search engine,

A next generation of "CryptoKitties" is almost here. Signing up will give early players 'gifts' in the R&D game/collectible token software.

It looks like the EU is on the edge of wide spread adoption of cryptos. The home turf of the banking cartel looks to become the battle ground of the 'money' systems, fiat VS crypto. Time will tell

Finally Opera have announced their eWallet is available. The Win & desktop versions are still in beta and due next year. This should bring a lot of new users over to the crypto world by making the

The world of Crypto is growing daily, the banking cartel know this. They have tried controlling it, they have announced competitive products and yet the steam train rolls on. The cartel just lost another

A Canadian court rules that a mistake made in transferring ETH incorrectly has to be refunded. This raises lots of questions in regards to how laws will be applied in the cryto world. Crypto is global,

Should the SEC be regulating ICO's, and if so based on what criteria. This article lays out the basics, but what it really boilds down to is the SEC are using 'rules' that were never designed to deal with

Despite initial denial it is still rumored that Samsung may be including an eWallet in the S10. Time will tell

Users now have another way to purchase gold with BTC. The gold is safely stored in Canada. Gold has been the basis of 'money' for thousands of years, so as a 'store' of value it may be better than even

Now that those in the crypto world are their own banks, it pays to be even more cautios when dealing with emails from unknown sources. And the same basic rules of not picking links in emails applies.

As more countries start their regulation process, the bigger picture says that cryptos are not going away. The worlds financial systems will need to face the reality . So what happens to fiat currency

CEX has announced that users now need to provide ID in order to use their exchange. How many more exchanges will fall to the demands of the banking cartel? Time will tell

After Ohio passed laws allowing taxes to be paid with BTC, it looks like the UK may follow the same idea. This sounds good, but the bigger picture is it implies that BTC is "money", something

On thurs 13 Dec 2 bills are are to be introduced to US Congress with the aims of providing regulatory basis for Cryptos. The SEC was formed in order to protect investors in IPO's back in the 1930's. Very