The cryptocurrency market has received a much-needed adrenaline shot in the form of positive statements emerging from the upcoming G20 summit on cryptocurrencies that will take place in Buenos Aires on Monday and Tuesday. The upcoming meetings have been met with a significant amount of concern from cryptocurrency traders and investors, resulting in a week-long […]

  The United Arab Emirates have a very particular goal, set to be accomplished by 2020: they aim to become the first blockchain-powered country on the planet. So it’s no wonder that one of the most important blockchain-related events in the world are being held there – which will help them achieve this objective, while […]

Earlier this week, Google announced its decision to ban ads related to cryptocurrencies, ICOs, and binary options. In this regard, cryptocurrency investor and entrepreneur Vladimir Orehov has filed a lawsuit against Google’s Russian entity ООО «Гугл», claiming a compensation of 2 billion Ruble (~$35 million) for the loss of investment opportunities and difficulty he would face in finding […]

Celsius, a community-based borrowing and lending platform, aims to put members’ interests as the priority instead of profits. They are creating new financial products with the aim of achieving this goal. In the current financial world, banks and other money lending institutions charge far more in loan interest than they return to customers in deposit […]

President Trump had some goofy exchanges with Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Thursday, but “it was at least a relief to see Trump making nice with an ally,” Seth Meyers said on Thursday’s Late Night. Audio surfaced on Thursday of Trump admitting to “outright lying to Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, about the U.S.’s trade relationship with […]

A blockchain is an open, decentralized, and a digitized record of all the cryptographic money exchanges. Initially, blockchain was created as the bookkeeping strategy for Bitcoin (BTC) (cryptographic money). It utilizes an innovation known as DLT (distributed ledger technology), meaning it is scattered between an infinite number of computers that have precisely the same copy of the […]

Within the blockchain community, there is a clear consensus that this cryptographic technology will change the world. This article and the two pieces that follow in the series, will explore the opportunities, the challenges and the current projects in the space focused on creating a social impact. Blockchain is the technology that underlies Bitcoin and […]

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. […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Governments and central banks need to collaborate on developing regulations for crypto-assets to prevent them from becoming a new vehicle for money laundering and terrorist financing, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday. In a blog posting ahead of a meeting of Group of 20 finance leaders next week, […]

The FPS is used by banks in the UK for same-day clearance. Today, London-based cryptocurrency exchange platform London Block Exchange (LBX) confirmed that it will offer its clients on-shore accounts and access to the Faster Payments Service (FPS). In the UK, the FPS is a payment-clearing scheme for electronic sterling payments, an initiative taken by […]