Over the past few months, we’ve seen some unpredictable patterns in the Bitcoin trading trajectory. With the traditional stock market itself going on a bit of a tailspin thanks to other macroeconomic forces, many have looked to Bitcoin to serve as a haven, while others believe that the asset would never truly have the storage value that other asset classes (say, gold) have

A Los Angeles man has agreed to plead guilty to running a $25 million money laundering operation whose clients included darknet drug dealers.

An Australian man has been sentenced to federal prison for money laundering through Bitcoin.

Save for Trace Mayer, Roger Ver, Jed McCaleb, Andreas Antonopoulos, and a mere handful of other early-stage Bitcoin believers, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are so...

While bitcoin frauds and scams are becoming more frequent, governments are losing their patience against the bad actors behind these activities. Rrecently the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) couldn’t bear the illegal trafficking of narcotics. Therefore, OFAC decided to go all-out against 3 Chinese nationals. After alleging them for not complying with the law code, OFAC even sanctioned crypto addresses of the drug traffickers.

Bitcoin bull and IRS fugitive John McAfee is shamelessly shilling a Chinese zombie cryptocurrency ICO — and he doesn't want to hear any lip about it.

Russell Okung, who plays for the Los Angeles Chargers in the NFL, has been pushing for the league to pay those multi-million-dollar salaries in bitcoin. You could say he's football's biggest bitcoin advocate, and he is quickly bringing attention to crypto across all professional sports. Okung, who is hosting a bitcoin event next month to bolster mainstream adoption, has tweeted out a piece of Messari research that spotlights just how neatly crypto and pro sports fit together.

What a week its been for exchange news as Digitex Futures Exchange has announced the date of its testnet launch, which is scheduled for 30th November.

The Ukrainian security authorities have detained cryptocurrency miners at a nuclear energy plant. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the law-enforcement agency and primary government security body in the fields of counterintelligence operation and fighting terrorism, arrested many people for illicitly mining Bitcoin and other digital assets at the country’s nuclear power plant (NPP).

A Westwood man agreed Friday to plead guilty to federal criminal charges for owning and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business where, according to pr...

Ever since Libra was unveiled, mainstream media coverage of the crypto industry has increased dramatically. While many new takes have been negative, with some cynics claiming that this new digital asset will slay Bitcoin, the unveiling of Libra has actually spawned some new industry fans. One of these “fresh meat” is Joe Kernen, an anchor on CNBC’s morning show, “Squawk Box”.

China had to see this one coming. After China President Xi Jinping revealed his intentions to slap fresh tariffs on $75 billion in U.S. goods, President Trump raised the stakes, revealing in a tweetstorm that two could play that game. He decided to increase the tariff rate on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods to 30 percent from 25 percent. In addition, whatever was left on the $300 billion tariff list for Sept. 1 will now see a rate of 15 percent instead of 10 percent.

A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty to running a $25 million Bitcoin (BTC) money laundering scheme and sale of methamphetamine.

Donald Trump is upping the pressure on China, and analysts say this is bullish for Bitcoin.

In an article published earlier this week, Matthew Hougan, the Global Head of Research at Bitwise Asset Management, argues that Bitcoin is too volatile to be considered a "store of value", but that is OK because if you want to become wealthy, what you really want is "an emerging store of value".

Mark Carney wants the US dollar to lose its status as the global reserve currency, pitching the idea that a digital currency could take its place at the Federal Reserve’s annual meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This is not the first time that someone is calling for the dollar to die and get replaced by a digital currency (such as bitcoin), but the fact that it comes from the Bank of England governor himself is a big deal.

In the past few sessions, there was a steady recovery in BTC above $10,000 against the US Dollar. The price even traded above the $10,200 and $10,250 resistance levels. Moreover, there was a close above the $10,200 level and the 100 hourly simple moving average. As a result, there was a decent recovery in many altcoins as well, including Ethereum, ripple, ETC, bitcoin cash and EOS.

A Tokyo-based outage in the Asia Pacific region of Amazon’s popular AWS cloud computing network wreaked havoc on some cryptocurrency exchanges’ operations on August 23rd. The ensuing chaos let a few traders make off like bandits.

Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by Western governments and some others and has been locked out of the traditional financial system. But this year its military wing has developed an increasingly sophisticated campaign to raise money using Bitcoin.

All-time Bitcoin mining revenue has broken $14 billion, according to data from Coin Metrics. And, while the Bitcoin mining hashrate has been rising, making mining...