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The top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization are all down today in excess of 10 percent, market data reveals. Advertisements According to CoinMarketCap.com, those cryptocurrencies have fallen by at least 13% – and in excess of 25% in the case of XRP – since the start of the day. At one point, within the 24-hour […]

The last few days have seen some extreme movements in the cryptocurrency market. And while almost all cryptocurrencies are trading in red right now, it has been a roller coaster ride for Ethereum, which touched record highs of over $1,400 and is now trading at a little over $1,100. Advertisements Ethereum has grown rapidly in […]

A recent journal article from the Journal of Monetary Economics has concluded that “a single actor likely drove the USD/BTC exchange rate from USD 150 to USD 1,000 in 2 months.” Image from Tom Stepanov. Chinese Government Now Aiming to Ban Centralized Cryptocurrency Trading A senior official in the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is […]

Credit: iStock.com/hwanchul Advertisements Cryptocurrencies look like a wasteland this Tuesday morning, and Ethereum is no exception. ETH was down 13.18% against the U.S. dollar at the time of writing. This put the Ethereum to USD rate at $1,143.57, which is a sharp retracement, though a minor one compared to Ripple or Bitcoin. XRP lost more […]

Peter Loop is associate vice president and senior principal technology architect at Infosys, where he focuses on delivering enterprise cryptocurrency and blockchain ledger technologies, API management and cloud migration of enterprise systems. Advertisements This article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in Review opinion series. During the course of 2017, we saw big technology players making […]

As soon as next season, Mavericks fans might be able to buy their tickets with cryptocurrencies. Advertisements Mark Cuban, serial entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, responded yesterday to a fan’s query on social media as to whether or not they could use cryptocurrencies to buy tickets to Mavericks games: As an investor with […]

January 16, 2018 10:24 PM Advertisements On Tuesday, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a handful of central securities depositories to explore distributed ledger technology applications. On January 16, 2018, SWIFT, the Belgium-based “global provider of secure financial messaging services,” announced the signing of […]

January 16, 2018 11:53 PM Advertisements A slew of news on crackdowns related to cryptocurrencies has come out of China in the past several days. These include actions by the People’s Bank of China to further curtail digital asset trading, an alliance between the central bank and other agencies to target fraudulent virtual currency schemes, […]

As the South Korean government backs away from a full-scale ban, investors should be thinking more and more about political risk. How do you protect your crypto investments against sudden shifts in the regulatory landscape? Advertisements One option is to avoid cryptos altogether. I know the potential returns are seductive, but if you can’t take […]

Capital One may be blocking its consumers from conducting cryptocurrency-related transactions. Image from Wikipedia. Capital One May Be Blocking its Consumers from Conducting Cryptocurrency-Related Transactions Capital One may be blocking its consumers from conducting cryptocurrency-related transactions on major exchange platforms. According to the Merkle, consumers have been complaining that they have been unable to purchase […]