The Central Bank of the Bahamas has announced the country’s “Sand Dollar” — a state-backed virtual currency — is now available nationwide. According to an Oct. 20 Facebook post from Project Sand Dollar, the central bank digital currency (CBDC) became Read More
Major exchange OKEx suspended crypto withdrawals on Oct. 16. With little information coming from the firm or its CEO Jay Hao in the time since, users have begun demanding answers via Twitter. In an Oct. 20 tweet from Hao, the Read More
Juan Benet, the creator of Blockchain-based data storage platform Filecoin, has called allegations that miners of its token have been on strike since Saturday “nonsense.” According to a report by 8btc.com, five of the largest Filecoin miners turned off their machines to Read More
United States Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce — better known as “Crypto Mom” — believes the recent action against BitMEX may be a wake up call for crypto firms. In an interview with “Unchained Podcast” on Oct. 13, Peirce Read More
A new report predicts Tether could surpass Ether’s market cap by the end of next year, paving the way to mainstream adoption of stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). According to Bloomberg’s Crypto Outlook report for Q4 2020 written Read More
Estonia-based cryptocurrency exchange BitBay went offline for almost two hours on Monday without explanation. According to a tweet posted by BitBay on Oct. 12, the exchange went down at approximately 4:28 PM (UTC) today before resuming trading at 6:10 PM. Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice has released an international statement claiming that end-to-end encryption “poses significant challenges to public safety,” including sexually exploited children. In an Oct. 11 statement from the DoJ, the agency called on technology companies to work Read More
Just three months after a landmark decision declaring digital assets trading is permissible under Islamic law, and religious scholars in Malaysia say crypto is looking bullish as an investment. The Malaysian Reserve reported Dr. Modh Daud Bakar, the Securities Commission Read More
One of the world’s oldest crypto exchanges now has an office in Singapore. According to an Oct. 8 announcement from OKCoin, the exchange is opening its doors to crypto traders in Singapore five months after getting the appropriate licenses from Read More
The amount of computing power on the Ethereum network is currently at an all time high following weeks of volatility in key metrics on the blockchain. According to data from on-chain analytics provider Glassnode, the Ethereum hash rate hit an Read More
U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Waves.Exchange, which supports the price-stable multi-asset Neutrino protocol, is introducing a way for crypto traders to earn passive income through stablecoin staking. According to a Sept. 29 announcement from Waves, the exchange has expanded its tokenized assets Read More
IoTeX, a privacy-focused platform for the Internet of Things, has partnered with camera manufacturer Tenvis Technology to offer Ucam, an indoor security camera powered by blockchain technology. Head of business development at IoTeX Larry Pang told Cointelegraph that Ucam users can Read More
A Bitcoin services startup based in South America has just launched the first Bitcoin node connected to the Blockstream satellite network within Venezuela. According to a Sept. 25 blog post from startup Cryptobuyer, the launch of the node will keep Read More
A report from Canada’s central bank shows that while most Canadians are knowledgeable about basic finance and Bitcoin, few actually hold any crypto assets. According to the results of Bank of Canada’s 2019 Cash Alternative Survey published in August 2020, Read More
Catherine Coley, the CEO of crypto exchange Binance’s United States branch, says adopting crypto may be one of the only ways for businesses to be “pandemic resilient” going forward. In a Sept. 21 interview with Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway Read More
Leaked documents from the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) imply that the agency’s revamped efforts to identify illicit transactions and money laundering may not be sufficient. But on this occasion, the institutions described as being at fault are not Read More
An anonymous benefactor manipulated social media to get on the news in the Californian city of Bakersfield to encourage the adoption of Bitcoin Cash. According to a Sept. 17 blog post from the Bitcoin Man of Bakersfield’ (BMB) — a Read More
The pandemic has seen consumers adopt digital payments in increasing numbers and the trend was accelerating, said the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde. She also indicated a panel of euro-zone central bank officials is set to Read More
People in their 20s and 30s now appear to make up the majority of crypto traders worldwide. This represents a shift away from previous numbers, which indicated not so long ago that people in their 30s and 40s made up Read More
The vast majority of Twitter users trust 18-year-old Spencer Schiff’s investment advice over that of his father, Peter Schiff — a renowned gold bug and Bitcoin critic. “Against my advice my son just bought even more Bitcoin,” said Schiff. “Whose Read More
