Houbi, a Bejing based Chinese digital currency trading platform that was founded in 2013, has just opened a new crypto exchange in South Korea where trading has officially started on the 30th of March according to their official announcement. They launched the firms leading subsidiary, Huobi Pro in October, 2017 as a result of the […]

Gazprombank, one of the major Russian state-owned banks, is going pilot a cryptocurrency service in Switzerland according to local news provider Vedomosti. The service includes some form of cryptocurreny transactions for its clients. Aleksandr Sobol, who serves as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprombank, stated that Switzerland had been chosen due to the […]

Malta has been all over the crypto news recently since Binance, the biggest crypto exchange currently, announced that they are migrating their operation to the island. Not much later BigONE and projects like Tron and Monaco Card signaled their interest as well. Of course this was the result of local authorities promoting blockchain technology, as […]

Bitcoin just witnessed a drop from 9,000 USD to 8,700 USD in a short time frame thanks to an article on Nikkei.com that states that the Japanese Financial Services Agency is planning to issue a warning on Binance, the worlds biggest Bitcoin & Altcoin exchange Binance according to volumes. Binance has proven again and again […]

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, Anatoly Aksakov released an official statement on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs). The statement goes in detail regarding two documents, one of them is labeled “On Digital Financial Assets” and the other one is “On Alternative Methods of Fundraising”, both will become law by 1th […]

Despite Carney’s comforting letter shared with the public before the meeting, the world’s economic leaders have decided that a unified cryptocurrency regulation should be drafted latest July, 2018. According to CNN, Argentina’s Chief of Central Bank Frederico Sturzenegger released a statement which ensures us that a radical and irrational action against cryptocurrencies is off the […]

President Donald J. Trump just issued an Executive Order through Whitehouse.gov that declares digital assets issued by the Government of Venezuela illegal. This means that any US citizen who funds, accepts who if financing or transacting with these digital assets is breaking the law. This should effect those as well who took part in the […]

As we reported previously, the next G20 meeting is taking place on the 19th of March in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The participants are focusing on many issues during the meeting, and one of them are cryptocurrencies. One day before the event a letter was published, written by Mark Carney who is the chief of the […]

Recently Google has announced a complete ban on cryptocurrency related advertisements starting from June 2018. Facebook was the first internet giant to issue a similar restriction policy in January. According to Sky.com, Twitter will be no exception from this movement as they are planning to move forward with a ban that prohibits advertisement of initial […]

The Group of Twenty (G20) is an international forum that brings together the world’s 20 leading economies. The G20 was established in 1999, back then it was a meeting aimed to get together the finance ministers and central bankers aimed to discuss international coordination of economic policy. They discussed really important matters year by year […]

International Monetary Fund Chief Christine Lagarde called for regulations once again on the 13th of March, releasing a post with the title: “Addressing the Dark Side of the Crypto World”. She begins with saying that her organization is playing a key role in coordinating the global regulatory activity of cryptocurrencies in order to avoid the […]

Wopke Hoekstra, Dutch Minister of Finance, told the local parliament in a briefing that both a national and an international approach is required to regulate the crypto market in order to reduce the risks associated with Bitcoin and other digital currencies. “Investing in cryptocurrencies is not without risk’ Hoekstra said. ‘In contrast to savings, money […]