Central Banks And The Regulation End Game For Cryptocurrency December 30, 2017 via ETHNews http://ift.tt/2CeQqW8 Read more
South Korea to Tighten Bitcoin Exchange Rules Amid Speculative Boom December 30, 2017 The South Korea now bans domestic cryptocurrency exchanges from allowing users to make transactions through anonymous accounts. Read more
ICOs The Beauty, the Beast and JFK December 30, 2017 What did ICOs get right in 2018 What went wrong Attorney and entrepreneur Christine Duhaime unpacks a chaotic year. Read more
El-Erian Predicts Bitcoin Crash if Savvier Investors Sit Out Correction December 30, 2017 Either the investor base diversifies during this price correction or bitcoin will crash very hard, former Pimco chief predicts. Read more
Massachusetts Securities Regulator Bitcoin Fails 'The Smell Test' December 30, 2017 The top securities regulator in Massachusetts raised concerns on the bitcoin bubble and called the bitcoin market entirely speculation. Read more
2018 and Beyond Tokens Are Slowly Eating the Firm December 30, 2017 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. Read more
Hacks, Scams and Attacks Blockchain's 2017 Disasters December 30, 2017 Hackers and scammers netted nearly $490 million in 2017. In this recap, CoinDesk takes a look at the most important incidents and their impact. Read more
Bitcoin Among Year's Top Searches, Google Data Says December 30, 2017 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. Read more
Singapore Court Dismisses Summary Judgment for $43 Million Bitcoin Dispute December 30, 2017 The Singapore court dismisses B2C2's application for summary judgment for B2C2's lawsuit against Singapore cryptocurrency exchange Quoine. Read more
Bitcoin or Blockchain Bet That Both Will Thrive in 2018 December 30, 2017 Competing technologies Not so much argues Symbiont executive Caitlin Long who believes the best of both bitcoin and blockchain will prevail in 2018. Read more
Crypto Exchange Poloniex to Impose Customer ID Requirements December 30, 2017 Cryptocurrency exchange service Poloniex is taking steps to ramp up the information it gathers on customers.n Read more
Ripple Approaching $2 as XRP Price Doubles in Weekly Trading December 30, 2017 Ripple's token XRP nearly doubled within one week, becoming now the third largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Read more
From $900 to $20,000 Bitcoin's Historic 2017 Price Run Revisited December 30, 2017 Bitcoin's price started the year off by crossing $1,000, culminating with a run that brought it close to $20,000. Read more
Indian Finance Ministry Cryptocurrencies Are 'Like Ponzi Schemes' December 30, 2017 The India government doubled down its skepticism over cryptocurrencies, calling them like Ponzi Schemes. Read more
Avoiding Digital Feudalism Built on Blockchains December 30, 2017 Blockchains may be transformative for society, but if that's the case, we should ask what society will remain, regulator Cab Morris argues. Read more
Blockchain in Healthcare 2017's Successes December 30, 2017 Blockchain in healthcare might not be sexy, but it's moving forward according to one of the sector's leading female CEOs. Read more
Payment Provider Bitrefill Runs Successful Lightning Transaction Test December 30, 2017 This may have been the first real consumer transaction using the Lightning network. Read more
What Wall Street Said About Bitcoin in 2017 December 30, 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. Read more
Blockchain Asset Registries Approaching Enlightenment December 30, 2017 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. Read more
2017 The Year Crypto Became a New Asset Class December 30, 2017 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. Read more
What DAO Charting Ether's Epic 2017 Price Climb December 30, 2017 Ether's price began 2017 below $10, shooting to as high as $800 earlier this month. Read more
Exmo hack UK Bitcoin exchange hit with DDoS attack days after lead analyst was kidnapped December 30, 2017 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. Read more
Popular Chrome extension with over 105,000 users found secretly mining cryptocurrency December 30, 2017 Users of the popular Chrome extension Archive Poster reported observing the change around the beginning of December. Read more