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Central Banks And The Regulation End Game For Cryptocurrency

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South Korea to Tighten Bitcoin Exchange Rules Amid Speculative Boom

The South Korea now bans domestic cryptocurrency exchanges from allowing users to make transactions through anonymous accounts.

ICOs The Beauty, the Beast and JFK

What did ICOs get right in 2018 What went wrong Attorney and entrepreneur Christine Duhaime unpacks a chaotic year.

El-Erian Predicts Bitcoin Crash if Savvier Investors Sit Out Correction

Either the investor base diversifies during this price correction or bitcoin will crash very hard, former Pimco chief predicts.

Massachusetts Securities Regulator Bitcoin Fails 'The Smell Test'

The top securities regulator in Massachusetts raised concerns on the bitcoin bubble and called the bitcoin market entirely speculation.

2018 and Beyond Tokens Are Slowly Eating the Firm

Think DAOs and tokens are just a joke This lawyer believes they may be coming to bring an open-source ethos to your business model.

Hacks, Scams and Attacks Blockchain's 2017 Disasters

Hackers and scammers netted nearly $490 million in 2017. In this recap, CoinDesk takes a look at the most important incidents and their impact.

Bitcoin Among Year's Top Searches, Google Data Says

New data from Google suggests internet users searched for information on bitcoin at a rate that outpaced some of the top news stories this year.

Singapore Court Dismisses Summary Judgment for $43 Million Bitcoin Dispute

The Singapore court dismisses B2C2's application for summary judgment for B2C2's lawsuit against Singapore cryptocurrency exchange Quoine.

Bitcoin or Blockchain Bet That Both Will Thrive in 2018

Competing technologies Not so much argues Symbiont executive Caitlin Long who believes the best of both bitcoin and blockchain will prevail in 2018.

Crypto Exchange Poloniex to Impose Customer ID Requirements

Cryptocurrency exchange service Poloniex is taking steps to ramp up the information it gathers on customers.n

Ripple Approaching $2 as XRP Price Doubles in Weekly Trading

Ripple's token XRP nearly doubled within one week, becoming now the third largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

From $900 to $20,000 Bitcoin's Historic 2017 Price Run Revisited

Bitcoin's price started the year off by crossing $1,000, culminating with a run that brought it close to $20,000.

Indian Finance Ministry Cryptocurrencies Are 'Like Ponzi Schemes'

The India government doubled down its skepticism over cryptocurrencies, calling them like Ponzi Schemes.

Avoiding Digital Feudalism Built on Blockchains

Blockchains may be transformative for society, but if that's the case, we should ask what society will remain, regulator Cab Morris argues.

Blockchain in Healthcare 2017's Successes

Blockchain in healthcare might not be sexy, but it's moving forward according to one of the sector's leading female CEOs.

Payment Provider Bitrefill Runs Successful Lightning Transaction Test

This may have been the first real consumer transaction using the Lightning network.

What Wall Street Said About Bitcoin in 2017

To short or to long Is bitcoin in a bubble We summarized the various views from prominent figures in the finance world and the academia.

Blockchain Asset Registries Approaching Enlightenment

Putting real-world assets on a blockchain may be a promise worth pursuing, but field reports suggest it's an idea still just out of reach.

2017 The Year Crypto Became a New Asset Class

Crypto assets may have become an asset class in 2017, but that doesn't mean there's work yet to be done to bring the technology to main street.

What DAO Charting Ether's Epic 2017 Price Climb

Ether's price began 2017 below $10, shooting to as high as $800 earlier this month.

Exmo hack UK Bitcoin exchange hit with DDoS attack days after lead analyst was kidnapped

UK-based Bitcoin exchange Exmo, took to Twitter to inform its users about having suffered a DDoS attack just days after one of its employees was kidnapped.

Popular Chrome extension with over 105,000 users found secretly mining cryptocurrency

Users of the popular Chrome extension Archive Poster reported observing the change around the beginning of December.