Cryptocurrencies

BTCC, one of world’s largest bitcoin exchanges, announced it is releasing a set of six colorful bitcoin chips as collectibles. The bitcoin chips come in six denominations that ...

Goldman Sachs and Banco Santander, two of the large financial institutions in the R3 blockchain consortium, have withdrawn from the project within hours of each other, reports Reuters. ...

Sweden’s Riksbank is looking into the issuing of digital money, the e-krona, said the c-bank’s deputy governor Cecilia Skingsley during the forum FinTech Stockholm on Wednesday. “Will we ...

As the number of fintech companies – blockchain developers, P2P lending platforms, electronic payment apps and automated trading platforms, among others – increase in numbers and get ever ...

It is that time of year when we start looking back at the months past, reflect and make some lists. The Forbes magazine is known for its lists ...

The Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, one of the projects of the Winklevoss twins, has launched in Japan and South Korea. This means registered customers from the two countries can ...

R3, a consortium of more than 70 global financial institutions, said on Tuesday it will expand with its first dedicated distributed ledger technology (DLT)  centre of excellence in ...

Bitbond, a Berlin-based bitcoin P2P lending platform recently announced it is the first such platform to obtain a license – from Germany’s financial regulator BaFin. “With our own ...

SBI Ripple Asia announced the official launching of the consortium between it and 15 leading Japanese banks that was formed this summer to develop a blockchain-based payment system. ...

LocalBitcoins, a Finnish-based over-the-counter Bitcoin exchange that was blacklisted by Russia’s megaregulator Roskomnadzor under the provision “illegal information on the internet”, announced it has launched a mirror trading ...