USA Could Issue Its Own Digital Currency Next Year The loss of Bitcoins with the cost of $70 million on Wednesday caused investors to think about the lack of security in virtual currencies. Despite this, the frenzy surrounding the cryptocurrency continued to…

Legal Challenges of Initial Coin Offerings Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) is a term intentionally mirroring Initial Public Offerings (IPO). There is an interest from regulators on the American, European and Asian continents around developing ICOs. So we find out, that it has…

Venezuela’s Own Digital Coin Cryptocurrencies are raising in value, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has intention to get involved in this market. The authoritarian leader on Sunday announced plans for a bitcoin-like virtual currency named the “petro.” He expects the new cryptocurrency…

Cryptocurrencies Can Be Issued By Central Banks Central bankers all over the world are taking a close interest in digital currencies. The reason is not financial stability: the technology behind cryptocurrencies has an extraordinary potential and is one which monetary authorities should…

Europe Leads ICO Investments A European venture capital firm called Atomico reported that half of the money that went into initial coin offerings (ICOs) in the past few years, has come from European investors. As Atomico reported, since the start of 2014…

Cryptocurrency Monitoring: White House Wants To Regulate Bitcoin The White House showed its intention of looking possible ways to regulate bitcoin, a day after California’s federal court ordered cryptocurrency broker Coinbase to transmit information of more than 14,000 of its customers to…

Buying Bitcoin Is Risky: ECB Vice President   “There is a risk of investing in bitcoin at current valuations”. This point gave the vice president of the European Central Bank yesterday. Vitor Constancio told CNBC, that developments in bitcoin’s price make it…