Category : Crytocurrency

Bear Effect: SEC Crypto Crackdown Precedes 48% Drop in ICO Funding

The amount of money that initial coin offerings attracted in this year’s third quarter fell significantly compared to the second quarter. According to a report by crypto market analysis firm ICORating, the amount that was raised via ICOs from J...

Free Keene Activists Launch Bitcoin Embassy New Hampshire

Keene, New Hampshire is well known city for libertarian philosophies and more recently as a hotbed for cryptocurrencies. On Monday, Nov. 12, crypto advocates from the region have announced the launch of a new educational center called the Bitcoin Emb...

SEC Takes Down Two Crypto Startups for Illegal ICOs

Dutiful CCN readers may recall this journalist’s questioning of the Paragon ICO over a year ago. Paragon responded to that article with legal threats, as noted in the author’s subsequent analysis of the initial coin offering in question....

Islamic Countries Challenge USD ‘Sanctioning Tool’ With Planned Common Cryptocurrency

Muslim countries around the world are planning to push back against the U.S. dollar’s long global dominance by creating a common digital currency for use in Islamic states. The dollar has evolved into a “sanctioning tool,” charged Erol Yarar, chairma...

Crypto Startups More Valuable Than Blockchains — Can the Trend Change?

In the crypto bull market of late 2017, when tokens reached a valuation of tens of billions of dollars, blockchain networks comfortably surpassed the valuation of commercial companies in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. At the time, for venture capital...

Activision Alums Raise $16 Million to Build EOS-Focused Blockchain Game Studio

Mythical Games is “a next-generation game technology studio.” Their focus is online games where players own the assets they develop or acquire in the game – true digital ownership powered by the blockchain, as opposed to managed dig...

51% Attack? Bitcoin Wins Ron Paul Investor Poll [Again]

Former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul enjoys a wide fanbase on social media and among latter generations who have an interest in pro-liberty changes to governmental policy. He is famed for his positions on issues ranging from abortio...

SEC Settles Charges With Two ICO Issuers

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled charges with two initial coin offering issuers. These cases are the commission’s first to impose civil penalties “solely for ICO securities offering registration violations.” Both co...

Bitcoin Cash: Where the 4th-Largest Cryptocurrency Stands the Day after the Fork

Yesterday, the Bitcoin Cash network activated its second scheduled semi-annual hard fork since the cryptocurrency split away from the original Bitcoin blockchain. Unlike the previous protocol upgrade, however, this fork was contentious, with developm...

In bigger crackdown of crypto abuses, SEC goes after unregistered coin offerings

Cryptocurrency founders have been prosecuted for everything from non-compliant initial coin offerings to outright fraud in recent weeks.

Battered Bitcoin Price Eyes Recovery as Dollar Slides

The bitcoin price on Friday plunged 0.85 percent against the US dollar, now trading at 5528-fiat. Bitcoin Price Seeks to Claw Back Lost Ground The digital currency has had a shocking week so far, with its value losing almost $1,200 within just f...

Wall Street's crypto bull Tom Lee slashes year-end bitcoin price forecast nearly in half

Fundstrat's Tom Lee is taking his bitcoin price target down to $15,000 from $25,000.

Court: Crypto Shill John McAfee Liable for Neighbor’s 2012 Death

John McAfee, cryptocurrency enthusiast, presidential aspirant, and millionaire founder of the near-ubiquitous McAfee Antivirus, has been found legally liable for the death of his former neighbor, Gregory Faull, who was found dead with a gunshot...

Why Bitcoin Cash Was Never Going to Lose the Hash War With SV

The cryptocurrency community expected a tight hash power battle between Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Cash (SV) on November 15. But, with a decisive win and an anti-climactic result, BCH came out the winner. Bitcoin.com, a company owned by Roger Ver...

Hash Wars: Day Two and the Anticipation for BCH Trading Platforms to Reopen

It has been close to 24 hours since the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain split on Nov. 15, and the community is assessing the first day of battle. At the time of writing, both chains are still operational and the ABC chain has a 32-block lead on the SV...