The city of Berkeley, California is considering launching an initial coin offering (ICO) in a stated effort to reduce its dependence on federal funding. The ICO would raise funds by selling digital coins that would be backed by government municipal bonds, according to Business Insider, which spoke to a …

Other data was published along with the list, like the average age of crypto's richest compared to the age of Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans (42 vs. 67), and the average daily price volatility in January 2018 for Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Ripple (XRP) compared to Apple, Proctor & Gamble, and …

With governments around the globe cracking down on all aspects of the cryptocurrency market, it seems like new regulatory risks arise every day. Add U.S. sanctions to that list. On Jan. 19, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the primary sanctions enforcer in the U.S., announced that any U.S. […]

XRP Ripple has been tipped as the “dark horse of 2018” with its value set to soar if the firm signs more deals with major financial companies, despite being embroiled in a bitter court case and having to overcome progress in regulation laws. The cryptocurrency is the only one in the top-five to have had […]

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 […]

In a blog published yesterday, Facebook's Product Management Director, Rob Leathern, announced that the social media giant would now be banning cryptocurrency and ICO advertisements. Facebook has created a new policy that will prohibit explicit ads associated with “misleading and deceptive …

Thanks to Bitcoin, cryptocurrency arguably hit the mainstream sometime last summer. It's no surprise, then, that by September 2017, a new platform was already hoping to “disrupt” the digital currency world. Enter Cardano, a new blockchain that claims to be the first “developed from a scientific …

The ads were geared to consume 80 percent of the victim's CPU time to "mine" the Monero cryptocurrency, but didn't otherwise harm computers or steal data. "Hey @avast_antivirus seems that you are blocking crypto miners (#coinhive) in @YouTube #ads Thank you :)" tweeted Italian web designer …

BITCOIN and Switzerland are, at least on face-value, a marriage made in heaven. With countries around the world sounding the bugle for greater regulation and government control, Switzerland, with its reputation for banking secrecy, is more willing to embrace the challenge. Earlier this month economics minister Johann Schneider-Ammann, made the case to journalists for Switzerland […]