The Bank of England reportedly established a special research unit to study cryptocurrencies and could introduce the national cryptocurrency next year. The Bank of England could give an approval on introduction of the national cryptocurrency already in 2018, local media reported. The Telegraph newspaper reported Saturday that the Bank of England established a special research unit in February 2015... 

Israel is rapidly becoming the world bitcoin fraud center as the now-outlawed “binary options” swindlers in that country move into the crypto-currency field, a report in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency news service has announced. The article, titled “Bitcoin fraud could be the next big thing for swindlers in Israel,” says that “Israel is shaping up to be a hub for cryptocurrency swindling.” It... 

Estonia is a Baltic country of 1.3 million people and four million hectares, half of which is forest. Its government presents digitization as a cost-saving efficiency and an equalizing force. Digitizing processes reportedly saves the state two per cent of its G.D.P. a year in salaries and expenses. Since that’s the same amount it pays to meet the NATO threshold for protection (Estonia—which has... 

You think it might be a little bit too late now to get into Bitcoin as it has reached $17.000 out of Bitcoin? Well yeah indeed, you are right, it may be too late to get into Bitcoin or maybe its not that late either. First of all you don’t necessarily need to buy one of the 3 bigs Bitcoin, Ethereum or Litecoin. There are other Altcoins (alternative coins) out there with a lot bigger potential... 

Kim Dotcom has sketched out his vision for a “perfect cryptocurrency” that would be fast, cheap and popular enough to keep it outside the influence of the world’s largest financial institutions. Dotcom gave fans the broad strokes of his plan in a Twitter post, saying that high-speed transactions and low fees of a universal cryptocurrency would help transfer control from banks and corporations... 

Bitcoin has long beaten the price of gold which is the most valuable PHYSICAL currency in the world but but….. $10K? For a freaking VIRTUAL money? CASH OUT IMMEDIATELY while you still can! SURE, it may, or may NOT hit 15K, 20K, 30K or God knows how much but eventually this Bitcoin stuff is just an artificial virtual ponzi scheme bubble which will blow up some day. It will blow up one day and... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the issue of a national cryptocurrency, according to Communications Minister Nikolay Nikiforov, after a closed-door meeting. The minister said once the digital currency or CryptoRuble is issued other cryptocurrency mining will be banned and it will be entirely regulated by the government. “I am so confident to declare that we will run CryptoRuble just... 

The value of the world’s largest cryptocurrency bitcoin has broken the $5,800 mark, hitting another all-time high before retreating to the $5,600-$5,700 level, still close to the maximum. Its market capitalization is approaching $97 billion. If bitcoin were a company, its market cap puts it in the same league as some of the world’s top corporations. The cryptocurrency would be in 77th in PwC’s...