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 ...

Following a volatile beginning of the  new year, the crypto markets are again falling throughout the board. The vast majority of the very best twenty coins on CoinMarketCap have been in the red on Monday, Jan. 22, with the largest loss around ...

What is Initial Coin Offering (ICO)? An unregulated means where funds are raised for a fresh cryptocurrency venture. An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is utilized by startups to bypass the rigorous and regulated capital-raising process required by venture capitalists or ...

“Bears get rich. Bulls get rich. Pigs get poor.” Bear A bear is someone who believes the market will do poorly. They invest in bonds, safe stocks and find ways to bet against the market. They make money because they ...

Nigeria-based non-cash remittance platform SureRemit has raised ₦2.5 bln (US$7 million) via an innitial coin offering (ICO) to roll out its digital voucher system that makes payments easier and cheaper. BuyAltCoinsNigeria reported at the end of this past year SureRemit had ...

Transaction fees, a bugbear for a lot of in the bitcoin community, are on the way down. Spiraling fees were a contentious issue that reached fever pitch in the twilight of 2017. But with the dawn of a brand new ...

by Peter Koenig for the Saker blog The other day I was in a shopping mall looking for an ATM to get some cash. There was no ATM. A week ago, there was still a branch office of a local bank ...

Bitcoin dipped as little as ₦4,692,075 ($12,855) Friday morning as traders watch a steep new correction unfold across cryptocurrency markets. From highs of ₦7.28 Mln over ($20,000) on some exchanges last weekend, Bitcoin tumbled by as much as 30 percent, ...