Bitcoin news Venezuela Starts Selling Its National Oil-Backed Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency Petro As The Worlds First State-Backed Digital Currency Formally Venezuela has launched its oil-backed cryptocurrency in an unconventional bid to pull out the country from arising economical crisis. The Caracas government put…

Malaysian Firm Adds Islamic Certification To Cryptocurrency In bitcoin news portal; A Malasian firm called HelloGold has received a certification for its cryptocurrency, which is gold backed and is planning to launch online gold platform this year in Thailand, as the company…

Trader Becomes A Cryptocurrency Billionaire Buying Bitcoin Bitcoin investors pressed the panic button earlier this year, when the cryptocurrency saw as much as 50 percent of the market lost amidst fears of growing regulations within the community. The unnamed trader, taking advantage of the Bitcoin collapse experienced over…

Hungary Is Going To Launch Its Cryptocurrency In March A new Hungarian cryptocurrency called Korona was presented by development Team. It will be a bit different from other currencies, which are not suitable for actual transactions. The new digital currency Korona was…

Coincheck’s Hacking Information From New Zealand There is an information, that New Zealand could have the key in identifying the hacker who broke the security of Japanese exchange Coincheck and stole $530 million. The transactions analysis found that the hacker had stolen…

Coinsquare Exchange From Canada To Raise A $30 Million Funding Canadian exchange Coinsquare has raised $30 million in a new funding by Canaccord Genuity Corp. In just 4 months the company has raised $47.3 million in total, according to official report. Coinsquare…

Israel Is Going To Launch Diamond- Backed Cryptocurrency The Diamond Exchange in Israel is going to launch a new cryptocurrency, which will depend on diamond price fluctuations. The aim is to make operations more transparent. “The new cryptocurrency will be backed by the…

Dutch Invested Big Amounts On Cryptos, But Profits Are Still Smaller From last year the amount of Dutch people, who have invested in digital currencies is nearly 580,000, according to a report. Since the beginning of 2017 consumers have been tempted by…

Investors From Kuwait Lost Millions In Crypto According to a report in Arabic newspaper Al Anba, there are nearly 12,000 investors in Kuwait, who have lost half the value of their portfolios trading in cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has seen a massive sell-off on…

Bitcoin Isn’t Alternative To Gold: Investors View The managing partner with the consultancy CPM Group Jeffrey Christian thinks that many investors don’t consider bitcoin as an alternative asset to gold. But they were investing in stocks for some period, instead of the…

Cryptocurrencies Will Take The World: Tim Draper From Silicon Valley Tim Draper, who is a famous venture capitalist from Silicon Valley, has became a Bitcoin enthusiast from the start of its launching. He started to show interest in virtual currencies 15 years…

Canadian Versabank Creates Private Deposit Boxes For Virtual Currencies VersaBank Inc. is a small bank in Canada, which is looking for securing the customers crypto-holdings. It is based in Ontario, and is planning to launch its digital vault by June. Customers from…

Cryptocurrency Trading Areas In Russia The Russian deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev announced that country is watching for creating cryptocurrency auctions in individual territories. As he mentioned, the ministry is considering Kaliningrad as well as Russky and October Island for arranged digital…

Cryptocurrency Buying Is Banned By Lloyds Bank Lloyds Banking Group has announced about banning credit card owners from buying Bitcoin and altcoins. A company spokeswoman said in an email: “Across Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax and MBNA, we do not accept…

What Is Bananacoin? Bananacoin is known as ethereum token, which has offered a team of Russian enterpreneurs in an ICO. They are going to use funds to enlarge their production of bananas in Laos. Each bananacoin token is worth about $0.50 and…

The Company Energy Mine Gains £12m In ICO Energi Mine, which is based in Oldham raised successfully the remaining £4m of its £12m initial coin offering (ICO) target. On Wednesday, the company opened its ICO to the public, having raised £8m during…

UK Royal Mint Plans To Launch Its Own Cryptocurrency The UK’s Royal Mint is an institution, which is responsible for producing physical money across the UK. It announced about launching its own gold-backed cryptocurrency. The project is named Royal Mint Gold (RMG)….

The Launch Of Kodak Cryptocurrency Is Being Delayed On Wednesday, the company the delay of its initial coin offering (ICO), though investors seek to buy Kodak’s cryptocurrency. On KodakCoin’s website there was a statement, that about 40,000 potential investors are interested in…

$350 Million Cryptocurrency Fund Launched By London Football Exchange The London Football Exchange (LFE) is going to launch its own cryptocurrency, which will offer token holders special discounts, exclusive offers and rewards. The cryptocurrency will bring activity to a football community and…

Cryptocurrencies For The Future: Starbucks Chairman Starbucks Corporation’s current Chairman and former CEO Howard Schultz sees potential development for the company in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. He showed skepticism over the currency and pointed, that for the current moment bitcoin isn’t going…