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Binance Goes Offline, Traders Outraged

February 8, 2018

Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has not been allowing any activity on its trading platform for several hours. After scheduled maintenance activity, the platform is facing some technical diffic...

Coinbase Bets on Machine Learning to Speed up Identity Verification

February 8, 2018

“In most cases, verification will now take seconds–not hours,” Coinbase wrote in a blog post published yesterday. The app, which is the largest crypto exchange in the United States in terms of users, announce...

Ripple Partners with Chinese Payment Provider LianLian International

February 7, 2018

Ripple announced a new partnership today with Chinese payment provider LianLian International. In another example of the company’s real-world application of its blockchain technology, LianLian will implement ...

CFTC Warns Investors Against “IRA Approved” Funds

February 6, 2018

Amid the cryptocurrency market risks and fraudulent activities, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a warning notice to investors asking them to be cautious of any cryptocurrency-bas...

BIS Head Goes Full FUD: Cryptocurrency is a “Threat to Financial Stability”

February 6, 2018

Agustín Carstens, the General Manager of the Bank of International Settlements, has given a lecture entitled “Money in the digital age: what role for central banks?” in which he argued that “authorities must ...

Live Updates: US Senate Discusses Cryptocurrency Regulation

February 6, 2018

The US Senate is today holding a discussion entitled “Virtual Currencies: The Oversight Role of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission”. As the name imp...

Baidu Launches Chinese Version of CryptoKitties

February 5, 2018

Last year, the cute kittens of CryptoKitties made quite a mess on Ethereum blockchain. The blockchain-based virtual game was so popular that it clogged up the Ethereum network. Now, the Chinese search engine ...

China to Block All Cryptocurrency Websites, Markets in the Red

February 5, 2018

The Chinese government is reportedly about to block all access to cryptocurrency websites from inside China, redoubling its efforts to stamp out the industry in the country as the prices of 98 of the top 100 ...

Lloyds Follows US Banks, Blocks Credit Card Payments to Crypto Exchanges

February 5, 2018

Lloyds Banking Group has banned its customers from buying Bitcoin with credit cards, according to a report in The Guardian. The bank said in an official statement: “Across Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Hali...

New Rules? CFTC Chairman Open to Federal Regulation of Cryptos

February 5, 2018

To date, the United States has lacked a uniform regulatory framework regarding cryptocurrency, marking the country as different from other states which usually take a nationally consistent stance towards thes...