Yesterday, Dallas-based money transfer company MoneyGram announced a new partnership with San Francisco-based cryptocurrency company Ripple (formerly Ripple Labs). The partnership will allow MoneyGram to test a new, cryptocurrency-based approach to processing international transfers, and is aimed at reducing the high costs for moving money across borders. Given the steady rise of the global remittance […]

In a surprising turn of events, long-struggling photography brand Eastman Kodak has announced plans to move into the cryptocurrency space with a pair of new initiatives. Yesterday, Kodak revealed that it will be launching a new, blockchain-powered platform, called KODAKOne, which is intended to “empower photographers and agencies to take greater control in image rights […]

e-Chat is a promising startup that has already run a number of ICOs and managed to get love and appreciation from millions of user, followers, and investors from all over the world. The additional round of ICO starts on January 8 and lasts until February 15, 2018! This is the first ICO run by the […]

Hardware wallets are one of the greatest deals in the cryptocurrency world, providing substantial security for a reasonable price. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. But a new eBay scam is turning those dreams of safe, secure crypto coins into a nightmare for some unwary users.

Since late November 2017, South Korea has looked to regulate cryptocurrency trading in domestic exchanges. South Korea’s primary financial regulator is in discussions with counterparts in China and Japan toward the regulation of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. South Korea is the world’s third largest market in bitcoin trading, after Japan and the U.S., and the largest […]

London, UK – Forty Seven Bank will use an Open API that allows businesses and partners to develop and integrate third party applications and services within Forty Seven’s banking infrastructure.   This modular API architecture will enable Forty Seven to engage third-party developers, and in the process, ensure Forty Seven can evolve, develop and adopt […]

Earlier today, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a post that seems to suggest the company is seriously considering the integration of cryptocurrencies. While the bulk of the post focuses on Zuckerberg’s 2018 challenge to himself to use his influence to help “fix” the current “anxious and divided” state of American culture, particularly in […]

This time last year, the idea of any national government considering the possibility of creating its own cryptocurrency would have been laughable. Times have definitely changed. This week, both Russia and the UK made it clear that they’re at least giving the concept of a state-backed cryptocurrency serious thought.

There’s no getting around the fact that Bitcoin Cash (BCH) — the controversial bitcoin hard fork promoted by equally controversial personalities Roger Ver and Jihan Wu — made a name for itself in 2017. Leaving aside the technical discussion around Bitcoin Cash, and its long-term viability as a rival to Bitcoin Core, the BCH fork […]