China State News Calls for ‘Iron Fist’ Regulation of Bitcoin Exchanges
China's Xinhua News Agency has defended regulators' recent decision to outlaw token sales and the exchange closures that followed.
China's Xinhua News Agency has defended regulators' recent decision to outlaw token sales and the exchange closures that followed.
Tencent and FedEx are among over a dozen major companies and institutions joining the Canada-based Blockchain Research Institute.
Limiting ICOs to accredited investors almost feels like a retreat from the goal of democratizing capital markets, columnist Michael J. Casey writes.
A Greek court has backed a request that the alleged former operator of bitcoin exchange BTC-e should be extradited to the U.S. for trial.
A conference in Dublin yesterday united representatives of major financial firms and regulators in discussions over blockchain's way forward.
Four major banks have joined a trade finance initiative launched late last year by Switzerland-based UBS and tech giant IBM.
A version of the ethereum blockchain being used by developers to test a forthcoming network upgrade is under an ongoing spam attack.
Larry Fink, CEO of the world's biggest asset manager, struck an optimistic tone on cryptocurrencies in a new interview.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein hasn't made up his mind about bitcoin, according to a new statement via Twitter.
British gas and energy giant BP is pushing ahead with plans to test blockchain applications in the energy trading market.
The price of monero's cryptocurrency could be poised for movement as traders are building support at a key retracement level.
Three major Asian banks and a regulator in Singapore have teamed up for a new blockchain trial focused on customer identification.
Malta's Ministry for Education and Employment is to launch a pilot project that will store academic certificates on a blockchain.
The US Treasury Department has revealed that one of its agencies is launching a new blockchain pilot.
The weekend rally in bitcoin's price may have come to a halt at $4,470 on Monday, but bullish signals hint at further gains.
Representatives from the blockchain industry are in the United Arab Emirates this week on a trade mission backed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Europol has for the first time released a cybercrime report examining the growing popularity of zcash, monero and ethereum on the darknet.
In the second part of a series on the legal issues for token sales, Marco Santori explains the SAFT Project's protections for issuers and investors.
An ECB research report argues for greater interoperability between DLT and traditional systems as new services come online.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reportedly making enquiries into the June "flash crash" on Coinbase's GDAX trading platform.
The senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston believes blockchain will make financial middlemen wake up and innovate.
Russia's central securities depository (CSD) is testing a new blockchain-based commercial bond trading platform built on Hyperledger Fabric.
Distributed ledger consortium R3 is releasing version 1.0 of its first major software offering, Corda, and celebrating with cake.
A new alternative trading system is entering the race to launch a regulated platform for ICO token trading in the U.S.
The B3i blockchain insurance consortium has added 23 new contributors, bringing its total membership to more than three dozen.
An advisor to China's central bank argued in a new op-ed that a recent move to crack down on initial coin offerings was the right course to take.
The convicted operator of the Silk Road dark market has given up his claim to over $48 million raised after the sale of more than 144,000 bitcoins.
Goldman Sachs is said to be in the early stages of planning a possible cryptocurrency trading operation, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The ICO token with the highest market capitalization continues to court trader interest in spite of bearish news trends.
Russia's deputy prime minister has spoken about the government's possible use of blockchain for state services.