More and more retailers are now accepting payments via bitcoin, and Australia just added another one on the list with the Independent Grocers of Australia (IGA) joining in. Composed of several supermarkets in the country...

A new report just came out to claim that countries like Russia and Iran are now looking to blockchain to figure out ways in which they can circumvent the sanctions imposed by the US. This could have huge implications for...

Even though blockchain is roughly considered a decentralized ledger technology, the US Senate wants a clearer definition of the network as far as its uses are concerned. To that end, it recently approved of the Blockchain...

A new license that was granted to the crypto firm Prasos by the EU now gives the broker to additional leeway in 28 countries. Called the Payment Institution License (PIL), it is a symbol of how much trust is now being...

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, in general, have been compared to a lot of things and gold is now one of them. This is courtesy of Jerome Powell, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve when he said that the crypto coin is...

A candidate running for Congress is trying to give his campaign workers incentives via Ethereum tokens. Recently, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) published a draft advisory opinion expressing the intent to approve...

Following Chinas lead, Turkey is now considering the idea of putting cryptocurrency under the direct supervision of its central bank. This news comes in conjunction with the Eleventh Development Plan that was submitted to...

Winklevoss-backed Virtual Commodity Association is seeking to become a self-regulatory organization (SRO) for the cryptocurrency industry, in a bid to run similarly like the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)...

The government of Canada has updated its Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Financing of Terrorism (CFT) rules, CoinDesk reported. The amendments, which were finalized last month, target cryptocurrency exchanges...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reportedly given blockchain startup Blockstack a go signal to conduct a $28 million digital token offering under Regulation A+, according to the Wall Street...