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Cryptocurrencies remain extremely volatile. Bitcoin is consistently on track for topping their biggest monthly increase and decline. It faced one of their record-highs of 37.5% decline just this May 2021, and frequently sees drops like 37% drop seen in...

Jason Guthrie, Head of Digital Assets, WisdomTree The outlook for cryptocurrencies has become a hot topic for market participants, spectators and press alike. While the cryptocurrency market recently experienced a pullback amid a series of negative news flow, it is...

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He told a group of finance officials last Friday that the government would clamp down on bitcoin mining and trading. The reason behind this decision is said to be China's goal to achieve financial stability....

The crypto industry experienced its fair share of cyberattacks and security breaches in 2020. Hackers stole millions from bitcoin firms such as KuCoin exchange while several DeFi (decentralized finance) platforms endured cybersecurity breaches. Cybersecurity and crypto industry experts predict...

by Peter Smith, Last week I sent a letter on behalf of Blockchain.com to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (embedded below), outlining my concerns regarding FinCEN’s anticipated rules related to self-custodied wallets. Since then, FinCEN released a set of proposed rules that has been widely...

The worst year of all years in every other way, is now ending well for the wallets of Bitcoin owners. Eighteen days before the third year anniversary of its previous high of $19,783, Bitcoin has reached a value of...

by Blaise Cavalli, Decentralized finance (DeFi), a new investment mechanism exploded into the financial sector and certainly has been the trend to watch in the digital assets industry. With billions of dollars in value circulating on public blockchains, has only been...

SocialGood is an ambitious blockchain project that has the soaring aim to rewrite capitalism as we know it today by utilizing Blockchain along with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create what is, essentially, a donation machine. You can get the SocialGood app today on Google...

If you thought that the “cryptocurrency world” was only limited by nerds, then let us open your eyes with this list. To our surprise, we have found more than 100 celebrities that use and invest in cryptocurrencies  They have diverse reasons...

Digital asset treasury management service Panxora says it will support ClinTex, a pharmaceuticals industry solutions provider, in raising and managing $7 million USD for a blockchain-powered clinical trials solution to accelerate access to medicines for patients. Panxora will provide a management framework, determining when capital raised is released into...

Despite the global economic stranglehold of COVID-19, the digital asset investor market continues to mature from its retail and crypto-fund roots any larger and more conservative institutional investors are allocating for the first time. According to a Coinbase report for Q1 2020, they are seeing institutional investors using Coinbase to...

Public Blockchain Platform BOSAGORA recently received a ‘United Nations Solidarity Award’ recently for their voluntary work in battling COVID-19. President Inhwan Kim of BOSAGORA stated: "I am delighted to create an example of blockchain contributing to society just along with IBM Blockchain. Technology should benefit human and further resolved that he...

The Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Alliance's recent COVIDathon online innovation contest recently announced its winners... selected from over 100 Blockchain and Artificial intelligence (AI) project proposals — and put forward by innovators over 10 weeks. Over 1,100 participants from 99 countries registered for COVIDathon, DAIA’s 1st hackathon, aimed to leverage...

The coronavirus pandemic has already changed the world in a variety of ways. One change, in particular, is a rapid increase in the speed of the global digitalization. The use of fintech apps has grown by 72%, online purchases increased by billions, and the popularity of online video conferencing...

Avenga, Accu Reference Medical Labs, and data protection specialist Ubirch have joined forces and built the first secured COVID-19 test result system. This will enable employees to show that they are not infected with COVID-19 and continue or go back to work. "On the one hand, we all want to...