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…

Six Luxembourg-based companies including Creahus, Espace Invest, Property Token SA, Tokeny, CoinPlus, and INNO, have joined forces to tokenize a luxury building located in the Grand Duchy. Reportedly, the team carried out the token issuance via Tokeny, a…

Russell Okung is prepping his team for the NFL season the best way he knows: by talking about bitcoin. He tweeted out that the first conversation of the San Diego Chargers training camp revolved around the flagship cryptocurrency. The tweet kicked off an…

Gamers playing the popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) can now earn cryptocurrency rewards for it thanks to a partnership between crypto startup Refereum and PUBG. According to report, Refereum and PUBG are going to give away…

Trust Wallet, the official multi-currency wallet of Binance, has partnered with Kyber Network to offer decentralized coin swaps to its users. The new option is possible thanks to the Kyber Network Protocol, which uses cross-chain interoperability to aggregate…

A Securities and Exchange Commission filing appears to reveal the first known Telegram ICO investor outside of Russia. The Chinese company The9 Ltd bought 5,297,257 tokens during a Telegram initial token offering in January 2018 for $2 million dollars. The…

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) managed to become one of the largest Bitcoin investment products in the world, in terms of dollars invested. Grayscale’s “Drop Gold” campaign, which is currently running on websites, social media, and television appears to be…

'Jameson Lopp, the Cypherpunk CTO of Casa, did an "Impromptu AMA" on Wednesday (July 24). The following were some of the most interesting questions. #Top 3 possibilities for bitcoin to die? - Apathy. Something that's 10X better being invented. Global thermonuclear…

'Jameson Lopp, the Cypherpunk CTO of Casa, did an "Impromptu AMA" on Wednesday (July 24). The following were some of the most interesting questions. #Top 3 possibilities for bitcoin to die? - Apathy. Something that's 10X better being invented. Global thermonuclear…

2% of Americans trust Facebook’s Libra more than major cryptocurrency Bitcoin, a new CivicScience survey shows. At least 40% of respondents claimed that they trusted Libra less than Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies such as Ether (ETH) and XRP. 35% stressed…

This could be the first time the Lightning Network, a bitcoin scaling solution, officially impacts the U.S. presidential election. Roughly a dozen bitcoiners who support Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang launched a crypto-friendly super PAC on…

The IOTA Foundation, a non-profit organization which developed the ideas behind IOTA and the Tangle architecture, announced on July 23, a new collaboration with STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics…