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Regulation
Switzerland - the cradle of ICO
Bitnewstoday analyzed the previous ICO and figured out which jurisdictions and what legal status are chosen by projects
21 November 2017 21:00, UTC Margareth Nail
News
Rumor: JPMorgan might consider linking its futures-brokerage unit with CME’s BTC futures platform
The situation is amusing, as Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase head, previously vowed to fire anyone in his company who trades with bitcoins and called this currency a fraud
21 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Regulation
Israel establishes cryptocurrency commission
The country does not want to prohibit the digital currency market, but it is almost certainly going to take regulative approach towards corresponding financial firms
21 November 2017 21:00, UTC
News
Week in a review: ups & downs (Top-100 cryptocurrencies)
Bitnewstoday.com made a weekly review on price dynamics of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies in terms of capitalization. Which coins broke the record, and which - fell to the bottom, read in the article
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC Margareth Nail
Technology
Will blockchain kill traditional journalism?

Is it possible to create "journalism of self-service" on the basis of blockchain-technologies? In any case, this process has already started

20 November 2017 21:00, UTC Paul GRAPES
Regulation
Tether hacked, millions stolen

The cryptocurrency company has been attacked and subsequently, funds were lost, claim representatives of the startup that trades digital tokens backed by dollars

20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
News
Mining can provide bail funds for poor thanks to this new project
Monero, the cryptocurrency often connected with cybercrimes, now serves as a means of help for those defendants who are too poor to be able to afford bails
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
News
Russian VK social media might use crypto payments in the future
Bitnewstoday has managed to acquire screenshots from the website internal translation system that suggest the site at least had plans to use cryptocoins
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
News
Power blockchain: Australia to invest $8 million in a new energy system project
The new generation of energy supply lines and power consumption monitoring systems — one of the most recent and prospective non-cryptocurrency blockchain applications
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
News
JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs successfully cooperate on blockchain equity swaps
Two companies’ views on Bitcoin are very different, but it does not stop both of them from partnership on distributed ledger issue. The project’s focused on equity swaps
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Regulation
Russian State Duma proposes to include cryptocurrency in securities law
If this actually happens, the future Russian cryptocurrency legislation might take the form quite similar to the one we see in the United States of America
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
News
Roger Ver: Bitcoin Cash is a real Bitcoin
As “Bitcoin Jesus” suggests, Bitcoin Cash has more rights to be called Bitcoin that the cryptocurrency with the original chain (which everybody else calls a real Bitcoin)
19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Investments
ICO vs IPO: so alike and yet so different

What is the difference between IPO and ICO, comparison of ICO and IPO, how they function, what models of monetization can be applied and what are other nuances read in the article by Bitnewstoday

19 November 2017 21:00, UTC Stanislav Sokolovskiy, senior lawyer at GMT Legal
News
Bitcoin reaches $8000 and $8100

The first cryptocurrency grows in price amidst the positive market news, recovering after a short drop. Goldman Sachs was right about 8 thousand being an achievable price

19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
News
Swiss companies to trade Bitcoin futures
As one could easily foresee, Chicago Mercantile Exchange remained the only company interested in Bitcoin futures for quite a short time period. Rivals already emerge
19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
News
Bill Gurley, Benchmark: Bitcoin has ‘an incredible store of value’

The entrepreneur connected with the Silicon Valley business environment does not consider Bitcoin a toxic asset and even uses the cryptocurrency in his business activities sometimes

19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Regulation
Russian state cryptocoin concept resurfaces after Udmurtia leader’s proposal

According to the local Russian media outlets, the leader of the Republic of Udmurtia, Russian Federation, wants his region to be the testing area for state cryptocurrency

19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
News
Casper ready for testnet stage, Ethereum development team says

Ethereum openness led to more than two possible protocol concepts. The leader of Ethereum Foundation proposes to combine all approaches to find the best security solution

19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
News
IRS vs. Coinbase: argument gets more heated
The court seems to have decided to support the Internal Revenue Service against one of the most popular exchanges and give the IRS grounds for tax probe
16 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Regulation
Thousands of ransomware attacks detected in South Korea this year
The Korean security agency publishes a report where it tells about a huge number of attacks, most possibly, from North Korean state-backed hacking legions
16 November 2017 21:00, UTC