Bitcoin’s Mining Difficulty Stagnates as Coronavirus Outbreak Delays New Equipment
A key measure of competition among bitcoin miners has stagnated in the past two weeks as the coronavirus outbreak disrupts economic activity in China.
A key measure of competition among bitcoin miners has stagnated in the past two weeks as the coronavirus outbreak disrupts economic activity in China.
The crypto payments provider is now taking its service into bricks-and-mortar stores with a new point-of-sale partnership.
One of the oldest banks in Europe, von der Heydt, is developing a euro stablecoin to facilitate private placements in securities tokenized on the Stellar blockchain.
The banking giant is apparently in talks to merge Quorum with ConsenSys, the ethereum-focused software developer and investor.
Four years ago, two lifelong friends turned a small investment into the largest crypto miner in North America. Now they are warring over the company's future.
Blockchain tech is reported to be speeding insurance claims processing amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The Plasma Group reformed as Optimism and is working to make ethereum's calling card, smart contracts, work above the base layer.
Public records show Chainalysis made more than $10 million in five years from the U.S. government and stands to take in more than $14 million, dwarfing its competitors in the blockchain surveillance industry.
Enterprise blockchain is a catalyst for further spending at Big Blue, according to Jerry Cuomo, IBM’s vice president of blockchain technologies.
DAG Global says it's had no "red flags" raised in discussions with British financial regulators.
The partnership with IBM Hyper Protect ensures clients’ keys are safe even if Vo1t’s data centers are compromised.
The U.S.-based custodian is expanding its crypto custody service to Europe with the launch of two entities in Switzerland and Germany.
The firm offers a platform using blockchain tech to automate commercial payments.
LBX, known as Dragon Payments since July, was put into compulsory liquidation on Jan. 31.
The exchange will use Prime Trust for compliance checks as well as custody for fiat and cold storage for crypto.
Clear claims it can reduce friction in global trade that amounts to $140 billion every year.
ConsenSys aims to use its new acquisition to offer tokenized municipal bonds in a market ripe for disruption.
Lightning Labs has raised $10 million in Series A financing as it gears up to launch its first paid service for merchants accepting bitcoin payments.
The funding will help the Boston-based Arwen expand its non-custodial settlement system, potentially to institutional players.
The Seattle-based Transparent sets out to bring real-time settlement to financial infrastructure through a cryptographically secured, distributed payment network.
Intermex has said it will use use RippleNet for its U.S.-Mexican remittance corridor.
A venture capital fund under the management of Sony Financial Ventures (SFV) and Global Brain has invested an undisclosed amount in security token issuance platform Securitize.
Internal tensions at Tendermint, the company building the Cosmos blockchain, have begun to spill out into public view.
Crypto businesses are figuring out how to comply with the Financial Action Task Force’s “Travel Rule.” And putting technical solutions in place is proving to be just as tricky as the legal and operational issues involved.
The credit-card giant pulled out of the Libra Association in October. Now its chief has opened up on why.
Although bitcoin adoption may move at a glacial pace, merchants are seeing sustained traction regardless of market dips.
MERJ, the only licensed stock exchange in the Seychelles, plans to list ethereum tokens representing shares in supercars issued by CurioInvest, starting with a $1.1 million Ferrari.
Bitcoin startup Casa is charging into 2020 with a new look – by winding down its hardware product and shuffling its front office.
Japan's crypto-friendly financial firm SBI Holdings will give shareholders the option to receive the XRP cryptocurrency as a benefit.