A Thai regulator announced that the regulator will amend regulation to prevent crypto use for illicit activities. Per the report, Acting Secretary-General of the Thai Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO), Pol Maj Gen Preecha Charoensahayanon, stated that …

In a tweet Aug. 5, the veteran gold bug and well-known Bitcoin naysayer claimed that current events impacting the Chinese economy did not cause fresh interest in Bitcoin. “The Chinese aren't buying Bitcoin as a safe haven. Speculators are buying, betting…

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission commissioner Hester Peirce expressed interest in building a non-exclusive safe harbor for the offer and sale of certain tokens. In her speech, Peirce reportedly said that she is interested in building a non-exclusive…

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has requested, along with a number of other jurisdictions, that the companies in the Libra Association provide details on how they plan to protect user data. The ICO has released a joint statement on global…

The trade war between China and the United States intensified as China allowed its currency, the yuan, to fall to its lowest level since 2008. This is seen as a retaliatory move by China on the latest tariff hikes by the U.S. If the nations enter into a currency…

Coinbase says it is working on support for eight new cryptocurrencies. The expansion is part of a larger agenda by the exchange to give customers access to 90% of the aggregate market capitalization of all digital assets. Per the announcement, the exchange…

There is now a total of 204,244 ERC-20 token contracts deployed on the Etheruem mainnet. The number of tokens on the Etheruem platform grows on a regular basis, with there being about 180,000 tokens in April of this year. It has been designed to be a supporting…

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says the cryptocurrency space needs a safe habor from over-regulation which stifles innovation. Commissioner Peirce opined: We need to allow people that are interested in this space [crypto] to be involved with it in a way that…