New Crypto Guidelines From FATF Have Far-Reaching Implications

The FATF (Financial Action Task Force) has revealed updated guidelines that would require cryptocurrency and digital asset exchanges—and potentially independent business owners and crypto holders—to share sensitive customer information as VASPs...

48 Crypto Exchanges Approved in the Philippines

The number of approved cryptocurrency exchanges has been growing in the Philippines. In addition to 11 operators registered by the central bank, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, there are 37 other...

Facebook’s Libra ‘sounds an awful lot like Proof-of-Stake’ and will ‘run into Ethereum’s problems,’...

Facebook’s “The Libra Blockchain” whitepaper has created quite a frenzy, not only in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, but also with U.S. government officials. Some people claim that Libra is not a blockchain,...

South American e-commerce platform to reportedly integrate Facebook’s Libra for user payments

In their quest to release their much-awaited cryptocurrency, Facebook has been consistently active in the virtual asset ecosystem over the past few days. Facebook had recently announced the introduction of the...

Craig Wright will have to prove he’s Satoshi Nakamoto by Monday

Craig Wright’s long drawn out one-sided claim of being Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin looks to have finally hit the wall. In a recent update in the court case involving...

Best Bitcoin Wallets: Online, Desktop, and Hardware Options

Bitcoin (BTC) has dominated the cryptocurrency market for years as one of the first digital currencies. Despite a growing number of alternatives, Bitcoin still claims the largest market share and has...

JP Morgan on the hunt for candidate with Bitcoin transaction knowledge using ‘Blockchain’ mask

The Big Banks’ fear of the decentralized currency world is palpable, both in theory and in practice. This fear has manifested in several institutional financial players first chiding Bitcoin and then...

Bitcoin [BTC] is more politically neutral than gold, says Adamant capital’s Tuur Demeester

The comparison between tangible and digital assets has been going on for a long time and is likely to go on, especially since Bitcoin has outperformed most assets in 2019. This...

India: ‘Draft bill’ real or fake? Leaked legal documents are as authentic as Monopoly...

India’s battle against cryptocurrencies took a new turn after pictures of a “proposed” bill circulated on social media. However, it was rejected by various prominent publications and personalities in the crypto-circle,...

GateHub hack: XRP moved from ‘offending wallet’ as ChangeNOW talks about recovering funds

GateHub saw a hack earlier this month, where the service provider lost 23 million XRP worth approximately $9,221,827 million. However, large sums of XRP were moved from GateHub’s wallet to various...