Monthly Archives: August 2018

Regulatory agencies in China have jointly issued a warning against illegal fundraising and trading activities involving cryptocurrencies. The warning was issued on Friday by six high-level watchdogs: the People's Bank of China, the Banking Regulatory Commission, the Securities Regulatory Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, and the State Administration for…

Miners, investors, developers and more. That's a summary of the diverse set of ethereum stakeholders that will be in attendance at an upcoming developer call, according to Ethereum Foundation communication officer Hudson Jameson. Set to take place at 14:00 UTC Friday, the live-streamed meeting aims to address some of the platform's most challenging questions ahead of its…

NEWS Aug 24, 2018 at 06:00 UTC Ant Financial, the payments affiliate of Alibaba, is cooperating with Chinese regulators to scrutinize peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading using its Alipay mobile app. Beijing News, a media outlet administrated by the Communist Party, reported on Friday Ant Financial is now beefing up efforts to monitor both merchant and customer…

Tanzeel Akhtar is an independent British journalist whose work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, FT Alphaville, Investing.com, Forbes, Euromoney and Citywire. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are having a hard time clearing the bar in the U.S., where nine applications were rejected by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday. The SEC…

With bitcoin cash developers at each other throats, the year-old cryptocurrency might just split into two. Created from a hard fork off the original bitcoin network after the scaling debate boiled over last year, bitcoin cash stakeholders seemed unified in their goal of boosting the cryptocurrency's block size parameter in the hopes of attracting more users…

NEWS Aug 24, 2018 at 02:00 UTC Blockchain startups seeking to expand to the U.K. might find that now is a good time to do so. In its most recent update for entrepreneurs wishing to set up businesses in the U.K., the Department for International Trade announced that Entrepreneur First (EF), a pre-seed investment company,…