The warning doesn't touch on blockchain's nonfinancial applications, where it is making more of an impact, contends Joseph Thompson, CEO and co-founder of AID:Tech.

Nyca Partners is now an investor in enterprise blockchain, but in 2014 it had doubts about the technology.

Warnings about "breaking the internet" and environmental harm don't take blockchain's ability to improve these factors into account, contends Vladislav Dramaliev, marketing lead at aeternity.

The acting agency chief defended the “zero tolerance” policy while praising the permanent CFPB nominee suspected of having been involved in implementing it.

Exchanges aren’t very transparent about their methods, but that in fact most handle such internal transactions exactly how regular banks have worked for centuries.

It’s possible for a cryptocurrency to begin as a security and then transform into another type of asset, said William Hinman, who heads the regulator's division of corporation finance.

Janeffer Wacheke’s fresh-vegetable stall in Nairobi uses technology that’s helping crack a problem Kenyan banks have so far failed to solve -- measuring the creditworthiness of traders in the country’s $20 billion informal economy.

Wirecard has created a blockchain-based B2B application to streamline payments for merchants buying raw materials like coffee, crude oil and steel.

Users wishing to move holdings from, say, the Bitcoin to the Ethereum blockchain usually go to an exchange, and convert their Bitcoin into Ether. Along the way, they often pay sizable fees. Once interoperability becomes possible, some of these fees should disappear or decline

Since addresses are recorded in the blockchain, it is possible to trace each transaction where the address was used, which aids in AML, according to Ron Teicher, CEO of EverCompliant.