The governments of Turkey and Iran are  considering developing their very own government-backed digital currencies, following on the heels of the Feb. 20 pre-sale of Venezuela’s national oil-backed Petro coin. Feb. 21,  following the Petro’s launch, Iran’s Ministry of Information ...

by Peter Koenig Imagine an international currency backed by energy? By a raw material that the entire world needs, not gold – which has hardly any productive use, but whose value is mostly speculative – not hot air like the US ...

Switzerland’s financial regulator has responded to the booming interest in digital currencies such as bitcoin with a rulebook to support those involved in the market. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) said it would regulate certain so-called initial coin ...

 The executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation Llew Claasen predicted that the buying price of Bitcoin will hit $40,000 by the conclusion of 2018, while 90% of other cryptocurrency projects will fail, Business Insider reported Feb. 15. As Claasen stated ...

The “Heaven’s Gate”. The sight is simply jaw dropping. The Heaven’s Gate is one of China’s most popular tourist attractions. It is built on the Tianmen Mountain. The Tianmen Mountain is 1518.6 meter high. The Heaven’s Gate is seated atop ...

by Ramin Mazaheri The simplest way to answer that question is: The Petro is a bond sale for foreign investors, with the proceeds going to pay the infrastructure costs required to implement the first-ever mass national adoption of crypto-currency. Now that ...

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In September 2017, China banned both ICOs and cryptocurrency exchanges. Some of these businesses responding by relocating off the mainland to Hong Kong. Now, Sina reports, Chinese government plans to mitigate that by banning domestic and foreign “virtual currency exchange ...

Calls for cryptocurrency regulation were a resounding theme at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. The world’s most prominent financial institutions remain wary of going all in on cryptocurrencies, amid fears of future regulation leading the marketplace to ...

Forget the Bitcoin bubble-talk and gear-up for surprise Mega-pumps In the last few weeks, we saw a steep correction unfolding across cryptocurrency markets as a spate of hacks compounded worries that the world’s third-largest market for Bitcoin trade-South Korea-was cracking ...