Search Results for: blockchain technology
China prepares to launch its own digital currency as Facebook’s Libra languishes
November 13th, 2019
China is moving closer to releasing the world’s first government-backed digital currency. Li Wei, the head of technology for the People’s Bank of China, the central bank, said on Monday that commercial banks should increase their use of blockchain ...
Company to pay millions in penalty for unregistered initial coin offering
October 8th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges against blockchain technology company Block.one for conducting an unregistered initial coin offering of digital tokens (ICO) that raised the equivalent of several billion dollars over approximately one year. The company agreed ...
The world’s most-used cryptocurrency isn’t Bitcoin
October 4th, 2019
What’s the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency? If you think it’s Bitcoin, which accounts for about 70% of all the digital-asset world’s market value, you’re probably wrong. While concrete figures on trading volumes are hard to come by in ...
The tiny nation that is creating its own digital currency
September 12th, 2019
An isolated island nation in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 75,000 continues to break ground in the cryptocurrency space. The Marshall Islands is proceeding with the creation of a blockchain-based national currency, the Marshallese sovereign or ...
Chinese Survey: 40% want to invest in Bitcoin, 98% know of Crypto
January 2nd, 2019
According to a survey conducted by PANews, routed through Chinese crypto-friendly media outlet 8BTC, 98.22% of those surveyed had heard of cryptocurrency technology, whether it be Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), or otherwise. The survey had 4,980 respondents, 4,200 of ...
Cryptocurrencies are set to go mainstream in Malaysia
November 29th, 2018
Bank Negara Malaysia, the Central Bank of Malaysia, moves to regulate the world of digital monies in the country from next year onwards. The move is expected to instill some public confidence in the viability of these tokens, and ...
Two Initial Coin Offering issuers settle registration charges
November 20th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against two companies that sold digital tokens in initial coin offerings (ICOs). These are the Commission’s first cases imposing civil penalties solely for ICO securities offering registration violations. Both companies ...
The formation of the Digital Currency Trade Association announced
November 5th, 2018
The Digital Currency Trade Association (DCTA) has launched a membership trade association focused on the new digital asset economy. The DCTA is organized as a “business association” under IRS tax law 501(c)(6) and the goal is to organize and ...
Rakuten e-commerce giant buys a bitcoin exchange
September 3rd, 2018
Rakuten, Inc., the largest e-commerce site in Japan and among the world’s largest by sales, announced that it decided to acquire everybody’s bitcoin Inc. (hereinafter “everybody’s bitcoin”) through its subsidiary, Rakuten Card Co., Ltd. The acquisition is based on ...
1 in 2 ICOs failed in the second quarter — and those that succeeded suffered huge losses
August 8th, 2018
Money continues to flood into the booming market for digital tokens issued by startups despite the projects seeking funding getting worse and investment returns suffering, according to a new report 55% of “initial coin offerings” (ICOs) failed to complete ...
