Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency
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China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges raises questions about the future of digital asset innovation, a movement that some bankers view as a threat and others embrace as a boon to payments, P-to-P lending and other activities.
September 20 -
The recent events of Charlottesville, Va., have exposed the dark underbelly of hate groups and their media channels, and raised fresh questions about how they get funding.
September 13 -
The legislation introduced by Reps. Jared Polis, D-Colo., and David Schweikert, R-Ariz., would allow cryptocurrency users to make transactions of up to $600 without paying taxes.
September 7 -
Society has accepted central banks’ monopoly over creating and controlling the flow of money, but history and current technological innovations point to alternative approaches.
August 25 -
Mark Cuban wants in on the cryptocurrency boom even if it turns out he’s right that bitcoin is in a bubble.
August 22 -
Distribution methods are constantly changing and being altered so that the maximum amount of people can gain access to these unregulated currencies, writes Mariam Nishanian, a representative at Dentacoin.
August 21 -
The Japanese exchange bitFlyer has processed $30 billion in bitcoin trades so far in 2017. Now it has its sights set on American crypto enthusiasts.
August 18 -
Society has accepted central banks’ monopoly over creating and controlling the flow of money, but history and current technological innovations point to alternative approaches.
August 15 -
One of the biggest hurdles that all cryptocurrencies first face is merchant acceptance. Without it, consumer adoption is constrained.
August 8 -
A San Francisco startup working with Swift plans to launch a network that would tie self-executing contracts to independent data sources.
August 7 -
The agency’s new classification of “initial coin offerings” is yet another affront to the efforts by fledgling companies to raise funds.
July 31 -
The bank forced hundreds of thousands of auto loan borrowers to take out insurance they didn't need, putting some into delinquency; a Russian man is arrested and charged in $4 billion money laundering scheme.
July 28 -
Readers react to the CFPB’s final arbitration rule, a new potential hurdle for initial coin offerings, a housing finance reform proposal and more.
July 28 -
The federal agency's investigative report concludes that crowdsales of blockchain tokens known as initial coin offerings may need to comply with securities laws.
July 25 -
A new blockchain network that promises to compete with Ethereum is taking the token sale trend to the next level.
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An unknown cryptocurrency trader turned $55 million of paper wealth into $283 million in just over a month.
July 10 -
Though they face an array of competitive threats — from digital currencies to peer-to-peer payment apps — the vast majority of community banks do not have a payments strategy, according to a recent survey.
June 30 -
Cash machine makers are working to make them work with, not against, smartphones; prices of digital currencies crashed on Monday, possibly sparked by a hoax that an Ethereum co-founder had died.
June 27 -
The incident shows that cryptocurrencies may be vulnerable to market manipulation—and may not be ready for prime time.
June 26 -
Initial coin offerings seen causing bottleneck in the network; exchanges halt ethereum transactions.
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