Portugal’s Central Bank Director Hélder Rosalino said that he didn't consider cryptocurrency a currency or legal tender and hinted that the Central Bank of Portugal has a similar position. His views are

The National Institute of Standards and Technology – a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce – has released an overview of blockchain technology, aimed to clarify the central characteristics

تعداد ارسال های شغلی در LinkedIn مربوط به Blockchain، Cryptocurrency و Bitcoin، طبق داده های قانون بلومبرگ، حداقل چهار برابر در سال 2017 افزایش یافته است. به گفته منابع، انتظار می رود که تعداد این شغل

Developers working on the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency zcash have employed nuclear waste from Chernobyl in the network's latest secrecy-assuring ceremony. The devs, Ryan Pierce and Andrew Miller, held

Another case of “cryptojacking” was detected on YouTube and resolved by Google over the course of this week, Ars Technica reported Friday, Jan. 26. According to the report, anonymous hackers have managed

Huge amounts of money are being poured into attempting to resolve institutionalized flaws within government service delivery. As recently as November 2017, the government of the UK committed £20 mln

The European Central Bank (ECB) says it “expects” cryptocurrency regulation to be high on the agenda at the G20 Summit in Buenos Aires this March. In comments at an event during the ongoing World Economic

The GBP/USD pair steadily moved higher through the European session on Friday and recovered a major part of previous session's sharp retracement of over 250-pips from fresh post-Brexit highs. A goodish

Australia's Brisbane Airport has announced it will roll out cryptocurrency payments within the terminal shopping areas. The new payment system, provided by cryptocurrency travel firm TravelbyBit, will

US cybersecurity firm Recorded Future has released a new report linking Lazarus, a North Korean hacking group, to various South Korean cryptocurrency exchange hacking attacks and security breaches. In

Bitconnect has formally closed its lending platform and cryptocurrency exchange following warnings from Texas and North Carolina regulators. The Bitconnect Coin (BCC) digital currency is down 87% today

BitPay, one of the companies affected by Visa suspending the status of the WaveCrest debit card provider this Friday, has released an announcement about the event today, on Saturday. In the statement,

Visa, the payments giant, ordered cryptocurrency debit card providers to suspend their services on Friday, according to three of the affected companies. Bitcoin payments processor BitPay announced in a

China has long been a bastion of cryptocurrency mining supremacy due to a surplus of power in the country. Some of the world’s largest mining groups, including the likes of Bitmain’s Antpool, BTCC, BW

2017 has definitely been a record-breaking year for ICOs: a fiat equivalent of some $4 bln have been raised, and the number of successful token placements have increased to a couple of hundreds globally.

Bitcoin payment service provider BitPay has announced Friday, Dec. 22, that it is updating the minimum payment amount on its platform from $5 to $100, only to retract the change two days later, as reported

A planned initial coin offering (ICO) for Overstock blockchain subsidiary tZERO, scheduled to go live at midnight Monday, has yet to launch as originally anticipated. While little is known about the now

The total cryptocurrency market capitalization rose above $600 billion for the first time today. Data from CoinMarketCap.com shows that the capitalization rose as high as $603.3 billion, crossing $600

Dr. Aisha Bin Bishr is director general at Smart Dubai Office, a city-wide initiative to transform Dubai into the world's smartest and happiest city. The following article is an exclusive contribution

Bitcoin is trading on the back foot today following the bullish debut of futures on the CME. Having clocked a new all-time high of $19,783 at 12:14 GMT yesterday, CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) is