Press: Japanese village to hold its own ICO
Learn what region of Japan wants to have its own initial coin offering, why it needs it and who confirms this information (also why ICO announcements sometimes need verification)
17 June 2018 21:00, UTC
SEC Corporate Finance head William Hinman: Bitcoin and Ethereum not securities
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission thinks that sometimes cryptocurrencies can be so decentralized there is no point in calling them securities anymore. This is quite good news for both Bitcoin and Ethereum
14 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Russian Federal Tax Service sees first crypto declaration
This material tells about the first ever cryptocurrency revenue declaration in Russia and tells how the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation views digital currency trading benefits
14 June 2018 21:00, UTC
South Korean authorities are proposed to open an economic center similar to Swiss Crypto Valley
This material describes the latest initiative of South Korea dedicated to blockchain: a large beach is planned to turn into a large center similar to the economic zone in Zug, Switzerland
14 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Mike Novogratz invested $15M in AlphaPoint and correctly predicted Ethereum legal status
See what the company that businessman Mike Novogratz chose is interesting for, as well as some background on his recent statements on the Department of Justice, CNBC and system downsides
14 June 2018 21:00, UTC
US CFTC asks Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, ItBit about price manipulation
One of the biggest regulatory steps by far is described in this material - what does the Commission want, how it all started and how exchanges responded to the governmental inquiry
13 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Russian presidential adviser on digital sphere left administration
See a brief review on what German Klimenko will be remembered for: which of his statements were clearly untrue and which showed his knowledge of the cryptocurrency sphere in a better way
13 June 2018 21:00, UTC
US citizen may face an imprisonment and property seizure for Bitcoin trading
US resident under the nickname of Bitcoin Maven was arrested on charges of illegal Bitcoin trading from 2014 to 2017. This shadow economy brought her about three hundred thousand dollars a year
12 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Research: 5% of Monero are mined through malware
Monero is the most prominent cryptocurrency when it is all about hidden mining. The research shows that a lot of malware groups aiming at Monero mining are active in 2018 and it’s a challenging issue for those who stand against it
12 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Hackers already stole over $1B in Bitcoin in 2018
See who exactly reports on the big amounts of stolen digital currency and how it became possible to easily steal Bitcoin and altcoins, without even having any education in programming or similar fields
08 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Millions of SoarCoins transferred back to owner after sale
Soar Labs plays a strange financial trick on Byte Power Party — one can read this material to find out more about a crypto deal which turned out to be very negative for the Australian company
08 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Russian FinMin reiterates: for now, citizens have to calculate crypto tax themselves
See what message has been sent to the regional departments of tax agencies in Russia and how it corresponds with the previous position of the Russian financial supervision bodies
07 June 2018 21:00, UTC
SEC has appointed a crypto overseer
One of the notable events of this week was the appointment of the digital currency sphere monitoring department chief. See the name of this individual and previous job background
07 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Press: the man who hijacked a US Army APC is an early ZenCash developer
Find out in this material who hijacked an APC in the US, when did it happen, and if the messages that this man had relations to ZenCash development (not to confuse with ZCash and ZCoin) are true
07 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Moscow issues arrest warrant against Alexander Vinnik
The issue of Alexander Vinnik is monitored by Bitnewstoday since the initial news on the arrest of this man who has recently confirmed his involvement with BTC-e and thefts he made through this crypto exchange
07 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Counter-fraud ICO BlockBroker is a fraud itself
See what happened with BlockBroker, an initial coin offering posing as a mechanism to counter malicious ICOs. How did the community realized something was wrong with the enterprise? What happens next? Answers below
07 June 2018 21:00, UTC
40,000 of computers infected with mining viruses as part of worldwide Operation Prowli
A sophisticated criminal scheme has been used by an unknown group of hackers. Bitnewstoday explains what methods they use and how to evade these attacks in order not to join the wide list of victims
06 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Bitcoin Gold team plans new hard fork to prevent 51% attacks
See what a 51% attack is, after which event the need for the blockchain protocol update has become fairly obvious for everybody and if the plan of Bitcoin Gold development team looks solid
06 June 2018 21:00, UTC
Vladimir Putin: Russia can’t have its own cryptocurrency, as well as any other country
See what the Russian President said about state-issued digital currencies on the question-and-answer session called Direct Line today, as well as the background on the crypto sphere in Russia
06 June 2018 21:00, UTC
China’s Central Bank offers blockchain platform for checks
Fake checks are a big problem in China, and to counter it, the People’s Bank has been quietly researching blockchain since 2016, which resulted in a new environment. Check out how it works
05 June 2018 21:00, UTC