Credit Suisse and ING successfully test blockchain
Find out below which platform the two wealthy financial organizations used and about the difference of reception of blockchain and Bitcoin by the world’s powerful financial organizations
01 March 2018 21:00, UTC
Kraken no longer accepts dollar
The popular digital currency exchange decides to disable dollar funding option for some reason, find out when this method will be gone and possible motivation behind this intention
01 March 2018 21:00, UTC
Former NY Federal Reserve Bank researcher: wearing the US power grid down by mining ‘worse than frivolous’
Read what the ex-head of research in one of the Federal Reserve Banks in the United States thinks about mining - production of new digital cryptocoins by using real power grids of America
01 March 2018 21:00, UTC
JPMorgan Chase: now that we think about it, cryptocurrencies are a threat to us
Read the reason why the financial institution the leader of which once called Bitcoin a fraud believes that cryptocurrencies pose risks for the business of the company and where exactly the press found this statement
28 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Germany decides payments with Bitcoin don’t require taxes
See in this new material how other major financial hubs of the world view Bitcoin payments and how it differs from the latest German measures recently imposed by the country’s Finance Ministry
28 February 2018 21:00, UTC
CFTC allows its employees to trade cryptocurrency
Find out below how exactly the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission is connected to the market of digital currencies and what else is still prohibited for the employees of this powerful regulator
28 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Want to raise millions for ICO - get ready for high expenses
As a part of a study “ICO projects promotion”, Bitnewstoday tries to answer the questions “What does determine the success of ICO?” and “How projects should build their PR-strategy to catch investors’ attention?”
28 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Margaret NAIL, Emilia ROMAGNA, Helen SMART
Thanatos, likely the first Bitcoin Cash ransom virus
Read this new material to find out about the critical feature of this ransomware connected with the encryption keys and see what to do if your computer or the device of your colleague is suddenly infected by it
28 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Kumamoto-Energy to use solar power excesses to mine Bitcoin
The Japanese company the business of which is dedicated to energy generation plans to benefit from the excess power of its solar power plants. See below which similar initiatives have been voiced in other countries
28 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Double hard fork Bitcoin Private being born in front of our eyes
Another hard fork of Bitcoin aimed, as the developers say, at privacy. Let’s see why it’s called “double” in the title and how the new technology called zk-SNARK is connected to the whole story
28 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Marshall Islands to issue national cryptocurrency
Find out below why this new Sovereign coin has much more chances for success than Petro and why one can state with certainty that it will not hurt the local fiat currency in any possible way
28 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Suddenly, hackers return over $15 million in ETH to CoinDash
The CoinDash initial coin offering has been robbed last year, and now under mysterious circumstances a huge part of stolen money returns to rightful owners. Find out below how much CoinDash has yet to return
27 February 2018 21:00, UTC
A lawyer's opinion on the viability of smart contracts
Experts in blockchain technologies believe that in the near future the implementation of new type of contracts – smart-contracts will change the business relations field. Alexey YUROV, a coordinator of Rospatent-VEB-VOIR blockchain team, explains the feasibility of the implementation of smart-contracts from a legal perspective
27 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Alexey YUROV, coordinator of Rospatent-VEB-VOIR blockchain team
Wozniak got Bitcoin-scammed for $70,000
One of the key founders of Apple, Steve Wozniak, did not manage to sell his bitcoins smoothly. Find out how exactly the scammer got away with the money in this new material by Bitnewstoday
27 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Bill Gates: cryptocurrency is killing people
The celebrated founder of Microsoft Corporation tells about his views on cryptocurrency. Find out below what he thinks on this economic bubble/new form of money/interesting geek toy
27 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Belarusian police: no, we can’t open a criminal case on Bitcoin theft
Initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency are legal in Belarus, but what about the legal practice towards Bitcoin-related crimes? See the unfortunate story of a local investor below
27 February 2018 21:00, UTC
US Deputy Attorney General: Justice Dept developing strategy on cryptos and no, they are not anonymous
Rod Rosenstein believes that digital currencies are actually pseudonymous and not untraceable. See his reasoning and the details on the new Justice Department’s task force below
27 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Yang Chin-long, new Taiwan Central Bank leader: DLT worth implementing
While the policies of China and Taiwan diverge on cryptocurrency, they both support the use of the blockchain in the financial sphere, as witnessed by the speech of the new Taiwanese Central Bank leader
27 February 2018 21:00, UTC
New research by LendEDU: Amazon’s cryptocurrency would be a huge success in America
Jeff Bezos has never voiced the plans about the cryptocoin of Amazon, but what if he suddenly decides to introduce it? LendEDU, an American research organization, has made a survey about the possible consumer reaction
27 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Craig Wright who was thought to be Satoshi Nakamoto gets sued, plaintiffs tell he stole $10 bln
While Craig Wright is almost certainly not Satoshi Nakamoto, he owns a great sum of bitcoins some people are now trying to get in court. Find out what they claim and his response to accusations
26 February 2018 21:00, UTC