NEW DELHI: Tech giant Google has announced that as per its upcoming Financial services policy, it will prohibit advertisements promoting any kind of cryptocurrencies. The company in an official note stated that the new policy will contain measures to restrict the advertisement of Contracts for Difference, rolling spot foreign exchange (ForEx) and financial spread betting. […]

Thai ‘big four’ banking institution Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) is adding euros and sterling to its Ripple-powered blockchain remittance platform. The SCB, one of Thailand’s biggest banks, is adding the euro and the sterling pound to its retail remittance offering powered by San Francisco-based blockchain giant Ripple, the Bangkok Post reports. SCB strategy chief Arak […]

BITCOIN had a price boost yesterday as the cryptocurrency hit its highest price for a week, passing the $9,000 mark, before it saw its value once again slump. The online currency has had a torrid start to 2018 after it saw its price plunge from an all time high of nearly $20,000 in December 2017 […]

It looks like Bitcoin is going to take over the world after all. The capitalization is ceaseless, and every time it grows a couple of Ks, the fan base is only getting bigger. Not blind to the fact, entrepreneurs are looking at more advanced ways to make profit aside from simply buying and selling bitcoin. […]

It should come as no surprise that the CEOs of Blockchain and Chain, two leading companies in the bitcoin and blockchain industry, have both personally bought into cryptocurrencies. But their investing strategies sound different, and a lot more restrained, than the broader, vocal crypto crowd. On a panel at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit: Crypto on […]

Picture two $1 bills. One is crisp and immaculate, newly arrived from the U.S. Mint. The other is crumpled and covered with crumbs and boogers. Each is worth exactly the same as the other. It doesn’t matter if the crumply one previously belonged to a coke dealer or a Koch brother. It’s still good for […]

Charlie Lee, the founder of Litecoin (LTC) and former Director of Engineering at Coinbase, has taken some bold steps recently in the crypto world. In December, Lee announced in a Reddit CHARLIE: Funny, I was just reading a Cointelegraph article [on the Coincheck exchange hack]. Did this just happen right now? CT: Yes, it happened this morning [Jan. 26]. […]

A glance at Coinmarketcap’s top fifty cryptocurrency asset prices Friday reveals even Ether (ETH) to have lost around 7% more than Bitcoin’s 15.5% daily minuses. Ripple shed 31%, Bitcoin Cash 20% and Cardano 37%, putting it just behind Ardor’s 39% as the top fifty’s biggest loser as of press time. The only asset to buck the trend […]

Nick Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, has published groundbreaking research on how Google Trends on how cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and Ripple mirror price rises and falls. Speaking to CNBC, Mr Colas said that the number of Google searches on ‘bitcoin‘ mimicked the price trend of the cryptocurrency. He told the business network: “Bitcoin – because it has […]

Along with the skyrocketing value and gyrations in exchange prices of Bitcoin and other, popular digital cryptocurrencies, recent developments and events have raised serious doubts regarding much-touted claims that blockchain distributed trading and transaction systems are as secure and tamper-proof as they are made out to be. Furthermore, serious doubts are being raised regarding the […]