ECB President calls for monitoring of increase in usage of digital currencies
Jul 24, 2017 04:19 am UTC| Digital Currency
The European Union plans to continue keeping a close watch on virtual currency schemes (VCS), including their traded volumes and exchange rate dynamics, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) said recently. In...
FxWirePro: ETH/USD forms Dragonfly Doji pattern, bias neutral
Jul 21, 2017 11:35 am UTC| Digital Currency
ETH/USD is struggling for a consistent break above 20-DMA and is currently trading at 214 levels at the time of writing (BTC-e). Ichimoku analysis (Daily chart): Tenkan-Sen: 196.23 Kijun-Sen: 224.82 On the...
Change Healthcare joins Hashed Health blockchain consortium
Jul 21, 2017 11:08 am UTC| Digital Currency
Change Healthcare, a leading healthcare IT company in the U.S., has joined the Hashed Health consortium to help advance blockchain innovation and distributed transactional protocols in healthcare. Based in Nashville,...
NRI Secure announces Blockchain Assessment service
Jul 21, 2017 10:20 am UTC| Digital Currency
NRI SecureTechnologies, Ltd., a subsidiary of Nomura Research Institute (NRI) specializing in cybersecurity, has started providing Blockchain Assessment a security assessment service designed for systems and services...
GAW Miners CEO Garza pleads guilty to $9M fraud scheme
Jul 21, 2017 09:43 am UTC| Digital Currency
Homero Joshua Garza, founder of GAW Miners and ZenMiner, pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to one count of wire fraud related to his role in his companies purported generation and sale of virtual...
FxWirePro: BTC/USD spikes on BIP 91 lock-in, stops short of all-time high at 2938
Jul 21, 2017 08:41 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/USD skyrocketed on Thursday, driven by the reports of BIP 91 lock-in. It stopped short of its all-time high 2980 levels and hit 2938 levels. The pair is currently trading in the red at 2758 levels at press time...
Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-up – July 21st, 2017
Jul 21, 2017 06:55 am UTC| Digital Currency
US Congressman calls for stronger digital currency standards Banning digital currencies such as bitcoin would not help in preventing financing of terrorism activities, a Republican member of the US House of...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects