Philippines Lawmaker Urges Senate to Expedite Crypto Crime Bills

A Philippines lawmaker is seeking to speed up the passage of legislation that would increase...

/ April 17, 2018

Lightning + NFC? The New Plan to Bring Bitcoin to Retail

Imagine a way to expand bitcoin payments to millions per second. Now, imagine a clunky,...

/ April 17, 2018

Bitcoin Merchant Adoption Might Just Be Accelerating In Asia

Bitcoin isn’t for payments? While that may be the popular narrative of late, don’t tell...

/ April 17, 2018

Economists Explore Bitcoin’s ‘Equilibrium Price’ in New Paper

Two economists have developed a model for pricing bitcoin and other assets in decentralized financial...

/ April 17, 2018

Japanese Official: No Plans For Central Bank Cryptocurrency

Bank of Japan (BoJ), the country’s central banking authority, currently has no plans to issue...

/ April 17, 2018

Chilean Cryptocurrency Exchanges Take Banking Blockade to Appeals Court

Chile’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Buda, CryptoMarket (Crypto MKT), and Orionx recently applied to an appeals court...

/ April 17, 2018

Venezuela’s Bolivar Sees 454% Inflation in Q1 as Maduro Hawks the Petro

Runaway inflation continues to devalue the Venezuelan Bolivar (VEB), even as the country’s authoritarian government...

/ April 17, 2018

Pipe Dream: Analysts Mull Natural Gas-Powered Bitcoin Mining Operation

A group of Wall Street analysts has a unique idea to allow shale producers in...

/ April 17, 2018