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by Patrick Burke The cryptocurrency world is still grappling to understand just what happened at Quadriga CX, the virtual currency exchange whose CEO who is alleged to have died without sharing the private keys to millions in customers’ cryptocurrency. Did the CEO really die, or...

by Prashanth Swaminathan, CEO of XDAT.io and Advisor to Eleven01 Many people remain surprisingly optimistic about the future of cryptocurrencies despite the harrowing year that ushered in crypto winter. After all, the only way to accept it is to convince ourselves that it had to...

Elastos, the decentralized infrastructure for secure internet-based transactions, hosted a meeting of blockchain and digital currency space leaders to talk about the future of regulations, compliance and best practices throughout the sector ecosystem. Representatives of...

Newport Beach, California-based blockchain-focused investment firm Sustany Capital has announced the results of a cryptocurrency survey it conducted of 1,000 U.S. adults belonging to millennial, X, baby boomer and Z generations and familiar with digital currency to learn about...

The biggest news in the bitcoin world this week, bigger even than the medley of price predictions, was the update from China regarding regulation and government involvement in Chinese bitcoin exchanges. The dominant movers in the bitcoin exchange ecosystem have long been Chinese...

British Crown dependency the Bailiwick of Jersey has introduced a new policy framework that regulates cryptocurrencies, according to a press release sent to CoinReport. The new regulation came into effect on Monday, September 26. With the introduction of this regulation, Jersey,...

Special Counsel Roy Keidar of Israeli law firm Yigal Arnon & Co examines the emergence of Blockchain in Israel, with the assistance of Ahuva Goldstand Bitcoin, the first truly decentralized virtual currency, emerged onto the financial markets in 2009. Its origins and the...

A European Union committee has agreed that for the moment the EU should rein in plans to regulate blockchain, reported Reuters. “We don’t want pre-emptive regulation, but we do want precautionary monitoring,” said Jakob Von Weizsäcker, a German center-left member of the European...

The British government plans to apply anti-money laundering rules to digital currency exchanges, said the UK Treasury Wednesday. In a report published along with the release of the UK’s 2015 budget, the Treasury said the new regulation would support innovation and prevent...