North Korea has netted around $2 billion by hacking banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to the United Nations (U.N.). As per the Report , the U.N. Security Council North Korea sanctions committee said that hackers formed an essential part of government…

In a major escalation against socialist president Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump’s administration has frozen all Venezuelan government assets. Action took immediate effect, with President Trump citing Maduro’s ongoing “usurpation” of power as well as human…

The stablecoin company Tether has minted 100 million USDT. The creation of new USDT tokens is often correlated with a rise in the price of Bitcoin, as Tether moves the coins to crypto exchanges like Bitfinex. Less than an hour after minting the new tokens…

HM Revenue & Customs, the British tax authority, is pressuring cryptocurrency exchanges to reveal customers’ names and transaction histories, in a bid to claw back unpaid taxes. Letters requesting lists of customers and transaction data have landed on the…

Security token trading platform tZERO has been awarded a patent for a way of recording trading data on public blockchains. The company, a subsidiary of retail giant Overstock, announced Tuesday that the patent for its new tech, dubbed “Time Ordered Merkle…

Founder of the capital management firm Morgan Creek Antony Pompliano said on CNBC’s Squawk Box that over half of his net worth is in Bitcoin (BTC). In a video published on Twitter, Channel’s another guest, Canadian businessman and TV personality Kevin O'Leary…