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Betway Expands eSports Sponsorship Portfolio

February 26, 2018

Betway has agreed a deal to sponsor three professional esports competitions. The online bookmaker will support the ESL’s Intel Extreme Masters and ESL One events this year, as well as seasons seven and eight...

Iranian Government Changes Tune on Bitcoin, Will Develop Own Cryptocurrency

February 23, 2018

The Iranian government has completely changed its outlook on the global cryptocurrency space. In recent months, there has been a positive sentiment out of the country, indicating that Bitcoin could be welcome...

US Investors Might Face Legal Issues Over Petro, Amidst Growing Scam Claims

February 22, 2018

In spite of the attention-grabbing headlines, Venezuela’s new cryptocurrency, the Petro, has hit another snag, as the U.S. Treasury Department ‎is once more sounding the bell to remind the country’s investors...

Growing Pains: Coinbase Struggles with Banks, Payment Processors, Card Issuers

February 19, 2018

It’s been an exciting and interesting few months for Coinbase, one of the largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges based in the United States. In the months of November and December, Coinbase onboard...

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...

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...

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...

SEC Halts $1 Billion ICO of AriseBank, Discloses Criminal Background of Executives

January 30, 2018

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has halted a fast-moving initial coin offering (ICO) that was seeking to raise up to $1 billion from thousands of investors ‎to develop “‎the world’s first dece...

Yandex Cleared of Illegally Advertising Binary Options

January 30, 2018

Smartex, which owns the binary options brand Olymp Trade, has been at the center of a lawsuit, headed by the Russian Association of Forex Dealers (AFD). The accusation saw both Smartex, along with Yandex, a R...