Tag: cryptocurrency

How many bitcoin investors are not up to speed with the IRS crackdown? Millions, probably. Coinbase has 35 million customer accounts. The number of taxpayers reporting crypto trades was, until recently, in the hundreds. If it was once hard to...

An estimated more than 42 million digital wallets are in use worldwide. The majority of these are anonymous, which is why digital currency is widely viewed as an enabler and contributor to illegal activity. Criminals have long enjoyed the simplicity of...

Fireblocks (www.fireblocks.com), an institutional platform for storing, transferring, and issuing digital assets, announced today that B2C2, the largest cryptocurrency liquidity provider and leader in electronic OTC trading, is employing Fireblocks to protect billions of dollars in digital asset value and...

Form 1040 may look similar to last year’s return, but there’s one key difference that’s attracting attention: a question about cryptocurrency. As I reported late last year, early drafts of Form 1040 reflected a new question on the top of Schedule 1, Additional...

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun finally got his $4.6 million charity auction dinner with Warren Buffett last month. In a Facebook post, Sun, founder of the Tron cryptocurrency platform, said he and several of his guests had an “Amazing dinner w/...

TradingView, the largest online social networking and data analysis tool for financial markets, formally announced the integration of Gemini Trust Company, LLC, an institutional-grade crypto exchange. “TradingView has always been at the forefront of providing global data and advanced charting...

One of the biggest early selling points for cryptocurrency was its security, but a new study by Chainalysis suggests criminals are having no problem making huge profits in cryptocurrency. Scammers tripled their cryptocurrency revenue in 2019, stealing $4.3 billion worth...

Paris Saint-Germain and cryptocurrency exchange platform CoinCasso have joined forces in a multi-year international partnership, with the virtual currency giant becoming an Official Partner of the Parisian club in all markets outside of France. CoinCasso is a blockchain specialist and...

The World Economic Forum, held at Davos last week, represented a momentous shift in the attitude towards blockchain, digital currencies, and cryptocurrencies. The industry that has been bubbling under in the move to evolve the future of payments received a...

A collection of Bitcoin (virtual currency) tokens are displayed, 2017. Photo: Reuters Singapore is introducing new payments legislation that offers global cryptocurrency firms a chance to expand their business in the country by applying for operating licenses for the first...