Australian government introduces bill to regulate digital currency exchanges
Aug 21, 2017 09:21 am UTC| Digital Currency
In a move to strengthen the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act (AML/CTF), the Australian government is has introduced a new bill. The Ministry of Justice last week announced the reforms included...
Aug 21, 2017 08:33 am UTC| Digital Currency
BTC/USD plummeted to 3900 levels after it hit a fresh all-time high at 4480 levels on July 17. It continues to trade in the red on Monday around 4000 levels at the time of writing (Bitstamp). Ichimoku analysis of daily...
ShapeShift cryptocurrency exchange to analyse supported tokens after SEC’s recent report
Aug 21, 2017 05:18 am UTC| Digital Currency
In the wake of the Securities and Exchange Commissions (SEC) recent stance on Initial Coin Offerings or Token Sales, leading digital asset exchange ShapeShift has announced that it is going to analyse the tokens currently...
Japanese bitcoin exchange bitFlyer to enter US market
Aug 21, 2017 04:18 am UTC| Digital Currency
Tokyo-based virtual currency exchange bitFlyer is soon going to launch its bitcoin exchange in the United States, marking its first expansion into a new market. BitFlyer USA, Inc. last week announced that that it has...
Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-up – August 18th, 2017
Aug 18, 2017 11:46 am UTC| Digital Currency
European Commission works on blockchain-based financial transparency gateway The European Commission (EC) has recently revealed that it is currently working on a gateway based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) or...
Breadwallet bitcoin wallet raises $7M in new funding, establishes headquarters in Switzerland
Aug 18, 2017 10:56 am UTC| Digital Currency
Breadwallet, a leading bitcoin wallet provider, has closed a new funding round in which it raised 7 million. According to the official release, the funding round saw participation of DAS Capital, East Ventures, Globe...
Aug 18, 2017 10:23 am UTC| Digital Currency
ETH/USD continues rangebound trading on Friday as it faces strong resistance from trend line joining 404.98 and 320. It is currently trading at 303 levels at the time of writing (Kraken). Ichimoku analysis (Daily...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects