Govts and financial institutions globally are looking at ways to minimise misuse of virtual and cryptocurrencies by criminals With the Reserve Bank of India forbidding all its regulated entities from dealing

Japan’s Financial Services Agency issued a warning to Binance for operating cryptocurrency exchange services without a licence in the country, giving Bitcoin investors the jitters Tokyo: A regulatory rebuke

Payment company Circle has announced that it has purchased Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange. Rumors of the acquisition had been circulating for weeks, and were finally confirmed today in press releases

What's supposed to be the most volatile asset in the universe is proving to be a bastion of stability compared with wild swings and carnage in global equities this week. Bitcoin clawed its way back from

NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Department has issued about one lakh notices to people who have invested in crypto currencies like Bitcoin and have not declared it in their income tax return, CBDT (Central Board

LONDON: Armed robbers have raided the house of a British virtual currency trader, forcing him to transfer Bitcoins after tying up his wife and threatening him with a gun, British media reported on Monday.

The company said it will use its own funds to reimburse about 46.3 billion yen to all 260,000 customers who lost their holdings of NEM, the 10th biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation. Japan-based

A vast majority of cryptocurrencies were suffering from losses yesterday after last weekend’s recent spikes in value. Bitcoin core (BTC) prices have dropped since touching the $13K zone back down to the

**Additional Wall Street money might start making its way into cryptocurrency investments soon. An American rating agency is set to issue grades for bitcoin and a host of altcoins this week, possibly opening

Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has become the craze all over the world, is a hit with a lot of Indians too. More than $3.5 billion worth of transactions in the cryptocurrency have been conducted in India

Bitcoin skidded below USD 10,000 on Wednesday, halving in value from its peak price, with investors gripped by fears regulators could clamp down on the volatile cryptocurrency that sky-rocketed last year.

In a move that will surprise few observers, Bitconnect has announced that it is closing its lending and exchange platform. The company has widely been accused of operating a Ponzi scheme and was recently

Cryptocurrencies are gauged by the size of their market cap. It’s a crude reckoner, but it’s good enough for most purposes. But what about projects that have yet to issue their coins or host their token

The Bitcoin value, that had rose up to 1500 percent by the end of last year, has fallen drastically since then Cryptocurrencies suffered yet another jolt after Brazil banned funds from investing in them.

A Canadian entrepreneur has sought to recycle the heat generated through bitcoin mining by growing plants and fish suited to the temperatures produced by cryptocurrency mining rigs by utilizing an aquaponic

One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges has been down for hours and its clients are starting to freak out. Kraken went offline at 9 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday for maintenance that was initially

The traders were initially offered decryption of five of their files for free by the hackers, who later demanded the payment of ransom for the remaining files In one of the recent example of a ransomware

So you’re ready to buy some cryptocurrency. Maybe you’ve been reading up on blockchain technology and you’re convinced it really is the future. Or maybe you watched a friend get rich off Bitcoin and you’re

South Korea's justice minister said on Thursday that a bill is being prepared to ban all cryptocurrency trading in the country. That news is a major development for the cryptocurrency space, as South Korea

Bitcoin and Ripple XRP prices had plunged on Monday after website CoinMarketCap removed prices from South Korean exchanges. Bitcoin prices fell below $14,500 mark today to trade at $14,234, extending its