China’s Central Bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBC), is planning  to introduce its own digital currency. That’s according to an article published in Globaltimes last week, which says that the PBC applied for 74 patents involved with digital currencies to the National...

Deutsche Bank has joined banking rival JPMorgan’s Interbank Information Network, a blockchain-based network comprised of over 60 banks, according to a Financial Times report.  The IIN allows member banks to exchange information related to international payments on a blockchain. Up until...

Bitcoin Cash head honcho Roger Ver has revealed plans to launch a BCH derivatives market alongside the newly-launched Bitcoin.com exchange. According to Bloomberg, who spoke to the exchange’s chief executive David Shin, the launch of new financial products is a...

If your first reaction to seeing a bichon-frise mincing sweetly up the sidewalk is, “mmm, that would pair well with the Sauvignon blanc,” you ought to consider being a Bitcoin Maximalist.  Last week, a vegetable partisan on Twitter challenged a...

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency adoption has failed to live up to expectations over recent years and fears around scams, fraud, and theft have not helped. The bitcoin price, after its epic 2017 bull run, slumped last year–though has rebounded in 2019, climbing back above $10,000...

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) wants to let bitcoin futures traders hold a greater number of open positions at one time. CME announced its intention to increase in the so-called spot month position limit for its bitcoin futures contracts in a letter to...

The situation in Argentina is lurching from bad to worse as the country’s economic crisis deepens. Unfortunately, this is becoming all too common for the South American nation. It wasn’t so long ago that the country found itself in exactly...

VanEck’s attempt to demonstrate demand for a Bitcoin ETF from institutional investors with a “limited Bitcoin ETF” has fallen flat. Despite the investment management firm’s clever marketing when announcing the sale of its Bitcoin trust shares to “qualified institutional investors” last week, VanEck’s...

Despite gaining close to 5% in the past week, bitcoin has seen its momentum slow down, hovering around $10,300 for the past three days. Throughout this period, Bitcoin has seen its market dominance slowly eroded, falling from a high of 71.24% on...

Bitcoin deposited to Bakkt Warehouse is protected by a $125 million insurance policy, according to a tweet from the futures provider. Last week, Bakkt confirmed that the warehouse, which will be a custodian to Bitcoin assets trading on the upcoming futures platform,...