Month: January 2020

The Taiwan-based cryptocurrency exchange Cobinhood has ceased normal operations to audit its clients’ balances. However, the situation provoked rumors of a carefully planned exit scam. The no-fee crypto trading venue is…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has obtained a court order on Tuesday for alternative service as it failed to locate the director of Control-Finance, Benjamin Reynolds. The regulator filed…

For years, the cryptocurrency industry the world around has been calling for regulatory clarity–mostly, however, to no avail. The lack of progress has perhaps been felt more acutely than anywhere…

Blockchain startup Securrency has announced on Tuesday the closure of its Series A funding round after raising $17.65 million. Led by WisdomTree Investments, an asset manager and sponsor of exchange-traded…

IBM’s new app is called “Thank My Farmer” and is created in partnership with Farmer Connect, a firm that already uses the IBM blockchain. IBM and Farm Connect did the…

Back in 2017, the entrepreneur took to Twitter in support of Bitcoin as he normally would. According to the tweet back then, McAfee predicted that Bitcoin will hit $500k in…

Data from Ethereum explorer Etherscan now shows that block production time is about 25% faster. Between Jan. 1 and Jan. 4, the blockchain’s average block production time fell to 12.96 seconds, from…

Turkish regulatory group Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu (SPK), also known as the Capital Markets Board (CMB), is planning to increase its efforts toward cryptocurrency regulation throughout 2020 as a result of…

With the power struggle within Bitmain still going on, its co-founder Jihan Wu has stepped down as its official legal representative. First reported by The Block, Wu stepped down from the…