On Thursday, US-based payment company Square announced it had acquired 4,709 bitcoins, an investment of around $50 million, which represent about 1% of the business's total assets. Square, whic
The Bitcoin white paper was the report that lighted the fire on the cryptocurrency movement, explaining the vision of a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Satoshi Nakamoto, a cryptographic pione
The derivatives exchanges BitMEX has been under investigation by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission since July 2019, however, on the 1st of October the agency filed a civil enforcement acti
This Thursday the European Commission proposed a new regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. The "Regulation on Markets in Crypto Assets", or MiCA, acknowledges cryptocurrencies as financial inst
Blockchain patents are on the rise. During 2019 three times more blockchain patents were published than the year before. However, in the first half of 2020 already more blockchain patents were issue
While the amount of cryptocurrency transactions related to the dark web has fallen below 1%, dark web markets are still doing profitable business. Unfortunately for darknet users, the occurrenc