Dear Steemit Community users, As soon as the news hit the wires that South Korea will now have no ICO’s, the price of Bitcoin AND Ethereum were down sharply. SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea’s financial regulator

South Korea's financial regulator on Friday said it will ban raising money through all forms of virtual currencies, a move that follows similar restrictions in China on initial coin offerings. The Financial

Not too long ago, I wrote a story about how we often fail to recognize just how revolutionary and how much of a game changer certains technologies are, even if all the elements were in front of our very

Fidelity Investments, one of the world’s largest investment firms with $2.3 trillion in managed assets, is taking a long look at cryptocurrencies. The company had already made several venture investments

The NEO price surged on Monday after Dutch financial news outlet Het Financieele Dagblad published an interview with NEO founder Da Hongfei. He speculated that a future collaboration between NEO and the

Web messaging platform Kik Messenger has concluded the much-hyped initial coin offering (ICO) for Kin, the platform’s new native currency. Including contributions from a private presale, the Kik ICO raised

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Japanese banks are looking to launch their own digital currency called the J-Coin to wean consumers off cash. The Financial Times reported Tuesday that a consortium of banks including Japan Post Bank was

Omise, OmiseGo's parent company, has officially announced a partnership with McDonalds Thailand to be their exclusive payment gateway for their website and mobile delivery app. Omise will be aiming to

Authored by Louis Cammarosano via Smaulgld.com, China’s crackdown on crypto exchanges highlights the issue with centralized crypto exchanges. Decentralized crypto exchanges, like local bitcoins gain

South Korean company Dunamu Inc. in the fintech sector, announced on Monday that it will launch a cryptocurrency beta exchange: “Upbit” -- next month. The company states that Upbit will be the largest

Imagine a place in an exotic climate where you could live freely - surrounded by nature. A community that works with cryptocurrencies, and where no fiat money is needed! You just enjoy life, enjoy nature

This is another interesting ICO i saw lately. What mostly interested me is their unique alghoritm called PoP and a new blockchain. Not something run on Ethereum or Bitshares but a fully new chain with

The Doomsday writer who claimed that the world would end on Sept. 23 now says it will end October 21. Christian numerologist David Meade predicted Sept. 23 as the date a mysterious Planet X would collide

Estonian central bank says that they have no plans to launch an official digital currency. It is still an experimental stage and the proposal is not approved by the government. What do you think of

As I wrote about in Hey Steemians - Let's start a #discussion, I would like to try and grow the #discussion tag to encourage more posts that create lively and engaging discussions. If you haven't checked

Even if you're new to the crypto-sphere, you're probably familiar with 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) offered on various platforms, including crypto-currency exchanges, used to help identify account owners.