Prosecutors have demanded the Japanese court to charge Mt. Gox CEO Mark Kapelès a minimum 10-year jail term under charges of Bitcoin embezzlement and fraud.
In his answer letter, Jay Clayton opens up on defining ICO tokens as securities saying that there cannot be a static approach to deal with different crypto assets. Meanwhile, according to the agency’s laws, Ethereum is not the case.
Facing intensifying criticism from politicians and sellers on Amazon’s aggressive policies quite for a while, the company finally decided to let third-party sellers offer lower prices on other sites.
Samsung Pay’s massive global user base can help in the mass adoption of digital currencies and can possibly offer an exponential growth to the payments platform.
Fidelity Digital Assets has launched cryptocurrency custody and trade execution services. Currently, it is available now only for selected customers, with the customer base expected to expand in the near future.
Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of cross-border payment giant Ripple, has weighed in on JP Morgan’s USD-pegged stablecoin, again.
Crypto Facilities, a cryptocurrency futures provider (acquired by Kraken exchange), has witnessed an exponential growth in its user base and the futures trading volumes for some of the top cryptocurrencies.
It seems that Starbucks has received a significant portion of equity in Bakkt despite not being a direct cash investor.
Tether (USDT) has taken a step to further their prospects in the cryptocurrency industry by collaborating with Tron to launch the stablecoin on the Tron blockchain.
Ripple (XRP) has been at the center stage of the cryptocurrency industry with many great developments in its favor. However, Forbes’s Jason Bloomberg published an article saying Ripple is a scam.
According to the New York Times report, Facebook plans to use its crypto token for in-app payments across its suite of applications. The Facebook Coin will be a stablecoin pegged to three different fiat currencies.
After two delays, the Constantinople and St. Petersburg hard forks have finally gone live. With this release, four different Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) have been officially activated.
Wozniak calls Bitcoin as something which has provided “massive value creation”. He admits holding a few Bitcoins for experimenting with new devices and applications.
In less than 12 hours, Constantinople and St. Petersburg hard forks will go live. But before any network upgrades are applied to the main network, they take place on test networks, such as Ropsten.
Mizuho Bank will partner with over 60 financial institutions to use its J-Coin Pay platform while serving over 59 million customers.