Bitcoin has dipped back below the $10,000 mark as the crypto markets are seeing near-total red. Having clung to its five-figure price point in recent days, a 3.2% drop on the day has brought BTC down to around $9.740 by press time. Earlier on its 7-day chart…

The New York Times Company has revealed its ongoing blockchain publishing experiments.The New York Times and partner companies will run a proof-of-concept from July until late 2019 to find a way to maintain trust in digital files. The project aims to store…

Starting this fall, the biggest airline in Scandinavia, "Norwegian" is accepting bitcoin for ticket payments and the owners also holds a large amount in BTC. They will also open up an exchange (Norwegian Block Exchange - NBX), in August for Norwegian residents.…

The CEO of blockchain and crypto hedge fund Pantera says Bitcoin’s past trend lines indicate the leading cryptocurrency is likely to hit $42,000 this year, followed by $356,000 a couple years later. "I know sounds crazy. But essentially we’re halfway back…

Despite being set up in Geneva, Facebook’s Libra project has not responded to a request by Switzerland’s data privacy regulator for more information. The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) had requested further details on Libra…

Genesis Global Capital (aka "Genesis Capital"), one of the largest institution-only crypto lending firms, reported its Q2 results, noting that in Q2 it had "initiated more loans and borrows than in any other quarter on record, adding $746M in originations."…

MyCryptoJackpot, a crypto based online lottery platform, after a successful launch is now surprising their community with another promotion. ALL tickets purchased on the platform will be DOUBLED by MyCryptoJackpot. A ticket costs an average of $ 10 (0.001…

The report reveals that 21.6 percent of the total BTC supply hasn’t moved for five years – that’s almost 4 million coins. It suggests that bitcoiners are increasingly holding for the long-term. This potentially signals that BTC is increasingly becoming a…

Cross-border payments startup Ripple hopes that by adopting a new trading volume benchmark, based on data from cryptocurrency index CryptoCompare, it will be able to better address concerns about “misreported, falsified and inflated reported trading volumes.”…

While Facebook’s Libra project was said to already have 28 founding partners when unveiled last month, that isn’t quite the case, according to Visa’s CEO and board chairman, Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. Playing down the firm’s involvement with Libra, Kelly said …

California-based online retail store Newegg expanded Bitcoin (BTC) payment options to customers in 73 more countries. Following the announcement, Newegg customers can now purchase its products with Bitcoin (BTC) in almost all of the countries under Newegg’s…

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says he’s surprised by reports that Bank of America has filed a new patent application that references Ripple’s distributed ledger technology multiple times. Garlinghouse said he could neither “confirm nor kill” speculation regarding…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in an interview, “I can assure you I will personally not be loaded up on bitcoin in 10 years”. “I would bet even in five to six years I won’t even be talking about bitcoin as Treasury Secretary.” He added, “We’re…

The second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap has struggled with its mining hashrate in 2019. The hashrate remains 42 percent below what was seen during Ethereum’s high of 295 GH/s back in August 2018. It now hovers at around 175 GH/s. Whereas bitcoin’s…