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January 26, 2018 11:16 PM Advertisements The vice governor of the People’s Bank of China wrote a telling op-ed about the central bank’s plans for creating a state-backed digital currency. Fan Yifei, vice governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), revealed new information about his country’s digital currency initiative Thursday. Breaking with what had […]

The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has been robbed of around 500 million NEM tokens in one of the largest heists the space has ever seen. Advertisements In a massive January 26 theft, somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 million NEM tokens were stolen from the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck. A statement on the company’s website […]

January 26, 2018 11:46 PM Advertisements Many of the services that offer entry into the cryptocurrency world remain centralized themselves. As recently profiled by the Wall Street Journal, CoinMarketCap has become one of the de facto resources for cryptocurrency stakeholders. With its aggregation and compilation of exchange data, few other platforms offer as comprehensive or […]

Advertisements Ethereum News Update In 2017, investors treated Ethereum and Bitcoin as if they were identical. They painted both with the same brush, meaning that when Bitcoin did well, so did Ethereum. But this relationship is starting to fray… Advertisements In an excellent post for Bloomberg View, Leonid Bershidsky shows that “It’s not just mindless […]

The Prime Minister of the UK told a reporter that she thinks her government should “look at” cryptocurrency, leaving the door open to regulation. Advertisements British Prime Minister Theresa May has said that she believes her government should take a hard look at cryptocurrencies and seemingly implied that it was open to the possibility of […]

In what may be a first, a NASA official has made a public statement on blockchain technology. Advertisements Recently, ETHNews reported that NASA awarded a grant for research involving blockchain technology in late 2017. We reached out to NASA for comment and Thomas Kacpura, Advanced Communications Program manager at the agency’s Glenn Research Center, responded. […]

On Thursday, Robinhood announced that it will offer support for cryptocurrency trading beginning in February 2018. Starting today, users can track the prices of 16 cryptocurrencies. Advertisements On January 25, 2018, commission-free stock trading app Robinhood announced that it will introduce 24/7, commission-free cryptocurrency trading next month. At the time of publication, more than 150,000 […]

On the Weiss Ratings homepage, there is a live countdown to its upcoming release of “…the First Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Grades by Any Rating Agency in the World.” Dramatic, much? Advertisements Although impartial ratings are a crucial step for investment credibility, I want to remind readers that it is incredibly hard to price cryptocurrencies, much less assign […]

An official with Japan’s financial regulator has said that it will not allow the sale of cryptocurrency futures on the country’s exchanges any time soon, though it may revisit the matter later. Advertisements A senior official with Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has said that following internal discussions, the financial regulator will not allow for […]

January 24, 2018 12:18 AM Advertisements On Tuesday, the US Senate confirmed Jerome Powell as the next chairman of the Fed. On January 23, 2018, Jerome Powell was confirmed by the US Senate as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. The vote was 85-12. He will take over for Janet Yellen when her term […]