Cryptocurrency

Executives at the world's investment banking centers face mounting pressure to justify expenses that seem to grow faster than profits. A new collaborative analysis from Accenture and McLagan offers a

Bitcoin worked its way into the online gambling world during 2016, though the shift went underreported at the time. While Bitcoin-specific gambling sites had existed for years, last year marked when m

Status Holdings, a Singapore-based startup, has launched the alpha version of its Ethereum client for Android and iOS. The app functions as both a chat application and browser for decentralized applic

Ripple marks the beginning of 2017 with two significant developments: the launch of XRP on Bitstamp's exchange platform, and a partnership with Axis Bank to modernize India's cross-border payment infr

ARK Invest and Coinbase released research estimating that 10 million people worldwide hold a material amount of bitcoin. The calculation stems from Coinbase user activity, with the findings then extra

Late last year, a letter was posted on BitcoinDevelopmentGrant.com that announced a $1.2 million...

Bitcoin crossed $1,000 this week for the first time since November 2013. The rally began in mid-October 2016 and has carried the digital currency up 60% since then, pushing its market value to $16.9 b

Dan McCrum, the Capital Markets Editor at Financial Times, published another column declaring bitcoin a pyramid scheme destined for zero. This marks the supposed 118th time commentators have called fo

Bitcoin's price surge into five figures grabbed mainstream attention over the past two weeks. The cryptocurrency broke through $800 on December 20th and crossed $1,000 on January 1st. That spike refle

Skrill, the London-based payments firm owned by Paysafe Group, has started accepting Bitcoin deposits from some users. The company, formerly known as Moneybookers, made no official announcement about

Axoni has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round led by Wells Fargo and Euclid Opportunities, the venture arm of ICAP. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Thomson Reuters, Andreessen Horowitz, FinTech C

Unocoin, a bitcoin startup in Bangalore, has partnered with Bitwage to let Indian workers receive their paychecks in rupees or bitcoin from employers elsewhere in the world. Bitwage, based in San Fran

A new social platform called Yours is enabling micropayments in Bitcoin to compensate content creators. The initiative is spearheaded by Ryan X. Charles, who previously worked as a cryptocurrency engi

Lisk, a blockchain platform built on open-source technology and featuring sidechain capabilities, has reached a critical milestone by stabilizing its main network. This transition marks a shift away f

While the financial sector continues to dominate blockchain spending and experimentation, emerging technologies are rapidly gaining traction across diverse economic sectors. Anticipated spending in 20

At a Coinscrum gathering with decidedly political overtones, the author of Mastering Bitcoin explored how policymakers worldwide increasingly view financial autonomy with alarm. Antonopoulos examined

Circle removed bitcoin trading from its payments app this week, completing a transition it began by setting user accounts to display fiat balances. CEO Jeremy Allaire told the Wall Street Journal that

South Korea's major financial firms are coordinating development of blockchain technology. The Korea Financial Investment Association convened 21 financial investment firms and five blockchain compani

The Stellar Development Foundation has added four organizations to its payment network: Coins.ph, Flutterwave, ICICI Bank, and Tempo. All aim to make cross-border money transfers faster and cheaper in

Within Bitcoin's ecosystem, significant momentum has built behind those calling for a protocol modification to expand the blockchain's capacity beyond its current restrictions. For more than twelve mo