Japanese online brokerage firm Monex is reportedly considering a buyout of Tokyo-based Coincheck, the cryptocurrency exchange at the center of the recent $530 million NEM theft. Japanese financial publication Nikkei is reporting an offer from online brokerage Monex Group to buy a majority stake in cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck. The offer comes ten weeks after the platform suffered […]

PHOENIX – The technology behind bitcoin and other cryptocurrency could change lifestyles and livelihoods, leading to cheaper, more efficient ways to ship packages, buy homes, access medical records and even build a secure vault of personal information. The little-understood and often misunderstood system of virtual money, known as cryptocurrency, is based on something called blockchain, a vast […]

Singapore plans to launch a Blockchain challenge. Each successful challenge would be rewarded with funding. Singapore: The government of Singapore has declared in an announcement on Thursday, March 29 that it would launch a bitcoin challenge, and would reward every successful blockchain challenge with funding. The Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) stated in the […]

Ripple (XRP) has had a great week, even as the market continued its bearish trend into the weekend. As the crypto looks to end the bleak week on a strong run, the events of the last few days suggest the company behind the XRP token is doing well. Over the last four or five days, […]

A patent application filed by Ford describes a Cooperatively Managed Merge and Pass (CMMP) system that would allow drivers needing to travel quickly to use less congested lanes, and travel more freely, by paying other drivers in cryptocurrency. Other road users would move to slower moving lanes and allow a paying driver to merge or […]

Switzerland has become a global hub for cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology they are built on, with investors flocking to the wealthy Alpine nation to get in on the virtual action. The country’s largest city, Zurich, set up its first bitcoin ATM four years ago, while the Swiss national rail company has since 2016 provided the possibility […]

According to estimates, calculated by Bloomberg, the top ten cryptocurrency exchanges are bringing in as much as $3 million per day in profit. Considering that cryptocurrency did not even exist until 2009, profit at that level is absolutely astonishing compared to the historical development of other industries. It is easy enough to understand how cryptocurrency exchanges […]

NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Generali Global Assistance’s Travel Insurance division (“the Company), has received the Gold Award for Travel Insurance Company by consumer product review site Top Ten Reviews. The Gold Award is given to the number one ranked product in the category. Top Ten Reviews is a product review site, which has been in operation […]

The controversial debate with blockchain and cryptocurrency has been affecting this new market for the good, the bad and the ugly. More than ever, crypto giants including Bitcoin, have been fighting their way through stormy weather cringing from the blows. Yet a newcomer on the block, Lendo, a London based fintech start-up, has been sailing through with […]

LYM token holders will now be shareholders of the Lympo Company. The company has announced that starting April this year, it would distribute 20% of its shares via equity options to the token holders. Lympo plans to distribute 20% of the company shares to its token holders. According to the company, the shares will be […]