Salt Lending Holdings Inc., a lender that uses cryptocurrencies as collateral, is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a roughly $50 million dollar ICO it held in August…
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Crypto Hangover Hits Nvidia as Chip Sales Plunge With Bitcoin Prices
After a stellar rise in business over the last year due to the cryptocurrency boom, chipmaker Nvidia’s optimistic figures for graphics card demand in 2018 has drastically fallen short of expectations, with…
Nvidia Stock Plunges as Chip Sales Plunge With Bitcoin Prices
After a stellar rise in business over the last year due to the cryptocurrency boom, chipmaker Nvidia’s optimistic figures for graphics card demand in 2018 has drastically fallen short of expectations, with…
SEC Cryptocurrency Crackdown: Two More ICOs Penalized
In a press release today, the SEC has imposed civil penalties on two more ICOs. Up to $27 million reimbursed to investors; each company fined $250,000, in addition to other penalties. The…
Ron Paul Twitter Survey: 50% of People Prefer Bitcoin as a Long-Term Investment
In a recent Twitter poll issued by retired United States politician Ron Paul, half of the respondents indicated they would choose Bitcoin as a long-term investment over treasury bonds, Federal Reserve notes,…
Ripple (XRP) Officially Hits Coinbase Custody
Coinbase Custody, the safekeeping arm of the crypto-finance giant, added support for XRP on its institutional-aimed custodian service. Additionally, it will also list the USDC stablecoin, as per a Medium post on…
XRP Takes over Ethereum to Become the Largest Altcoin by Market Cap
The bearish movements in the cryptocurrency market, which resulted in Bitcoin’s price falling well below the $6,000 mark, have benefited Ripple, as it’s XRP coin has now overtaken Ethereum as the largest…
How Cartels May Control EOS and Fundamentally Threaten its Survival
There is evidence that a small group of block producers (miners) control the entire EOS network. These block producers have the power to censor transactions, blacklist individuals, and ensure they remain in…
Binance CEO Predicts Cryptocurrency Bull Run “Sooner or Later,” Reveals Business and Industry Remain “Healthy”
Despite 2018’s prolonged and notorious bear market across all cryptocurrencies, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao remains optimistic about the future of the volatile asset class; proclaiming a bull run can be expected “sooner…
Explained: Bitcoin Cash Hash Wars, Where the Factions Stand on the Issues
Recently, there has been a storm brewing in Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Two upgrades to the underlying software of Bitcoin Cash threaten to split the coin in two, and both factions are determined…
FanWide’s Bringing Tokens to Game Night [INTERVIEW]
With a hop and a skip, the blockchain industry may fast be proving its barebones infrastructure is ready to withstand the supersonic strains of the next tech boom. The president and chief…
Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds Seek ICO-Like Returns in From Stablecoin Investments
Cryptocurrency hedge funds remain optimistic about the prospects of making massive gains in the digital asset markets, despite falling prices and negative investor sentiment over the asset class. Seeking ICO-Like Returns As…
Bitcoin Lightning Network Reaches All-Time High Capacity
Efforts to improve the scalability of Bitcoin appear to be bearing fruit as the Lightning Network, a second layer off-chain scalability solution on the network designed to handle vast transaction throughputs without…
Marshall Islands Government Votes to Move Forward With Plan for State Cryptocurrency
The Republic of the Marshall Islands will move forward with its plan to introduce its own cryptocurrency, despite a vote of no confidence against President Hilda Heine’s support of the venture, according…
Investor Rights and Legal Risks Might Make STOs the Future of Funding
An exceptionally low success rate and a substantially high risk of scams are already making the much-hyped ICOs obsolete. And now, according to a Nov. 12, report from Beyond Blocks, there might…
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Plummets 18 Percent Overnight: What Triggered the Massive Drop?
In the last 24 hours, the cryptocurrency market suffered one of its worst single-day sell-offs in all of 2018, as Bitcoin (BTC) plunged 11 percent. The substantial short-term drop in the price…
Iran Feeling Heat from SWIFT Sanctions, National Cryptocurrency Ready for Blast-off?
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) may have just pushed Iran to the wall in its plans to build a state-issued cryptocurrency, having abruptly ejected several banks from the marginalized…
Amazon Wins Two Blockchain Related Patents: Cryptography and Distributed Storage
Internet retail behemoth Amazon was recently awarded two blockchain-related patents. The patents related to cryptographic signatures and expandable data grids, signal a race to patent more of the open-source innovations occurring in…
IMF Chief Calls for Central Banks to Consider Issuing Digital Currencies
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chair Christine Lagarde has called for central banks to consider the possibility of issuing Central Banks Digital Currencies (CBDC), describing them as potential tools of financial inclusion and…
Bitcoin Plunges to $5400: 12 Month Low, Market Sheds $25 Billion
Bitcoin hits a historic 12 month low of $5400. The pre-eminent cryptocurrency has cratered 11 percent just within the last four hours. The enormous drop in price appears to be driven by…