I’ve been pretty vocal about how Russia has seemingly embraced the crytpocurrency craze. In announcement after announcement this year it looked like the state apparatus in Russia under Pres... Read more
India’s government and private sectors are bullish about blockchain technology for land records management, e-governance and supply chain manufacturing. With digital adoption gaining t... Read more
Ripple rose 20 percent Wednesday to an all-time high, up more than 20,000 percent for the year. The gains followed news that Tokyo-based financial services company SBI Holdings and its subsi... Read more
The ski lift company in the upper Engadine Valley, which includes the resort of St Moritz, says customers can buy passes with the cryptocurrency. Ski lifts in and around St Moritz in the Eng... Read more
If the past is any guide, the regulatory scrutiny could be little more than a speed bump for crypto mania. Bitcoin prices fell for a second consecutive day as South Korea’s government said i... Read more
The government of Belarus, with the approval of its President Alexander Lukashenko, has officially acknowledged bitcoin as a legal currency and has legalized initial coin offerings (ICOs), s... Read more
In the last month, John Villar has bought two plane tickets to Colombia, purchased his wife’s medication and paid the employees of his startup business in Venezuela — all in bitcoin. As Vene... Read more
Sweden’s Riksbank, the world’s oldest central bank, is exploring the possibility of a digital register-based e-krona; the Reserve Bank of New Zealand is researching whether its physical curr... Read more
An animated visual history of initial coin offerings (aka token sales), from the early days of 2014 to their meteoric rise in 2017. Source/More: Four Years of Token Sales, Visualized in One... Read more