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Bitcoin ATMs are popping up across the United States, mostly in low-income neighborhoods. Is this a benefit for low-income residents who don't have bank accounts or something else?
Bellwether cryptocurrency bitcoin closed trading Thursday at less than $6,000 for the first time since mid-November of last year.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) did poorly in government stress tests. According to The Wall Street Journal: Regulators cleared most of the largest U.S. banks to...
One of America's largest hedge funds lays off staff, more restructuring makes GE a much smaller company, and other important headlines.
Security tokens provide many benefits to underlying assets, the most important of which is liquidity. However, liquidity doesn’t just happen because you build the technology to tokenize assets and...
Worries about a trade war continue to batter stocks worldwide, suits over climate change were decided in favor of big oil, and other important headlines.
New research from economics professor Eric Budish warns that attacks against cryptocurrencies may become more likely as the value of the currencies rises. This has serious implications for crypto...
Earlier this week the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank quietly added price data on four cryptocurrencies to its vast FRED database.
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb was hit by an attack last night that netted thieves an estimated $31 million. Details are scarce, but the government authorities have been notified and...
GE is dropped from the Dow Jones industrial average, Volkswagen and Ford may build new cars together, and other important headlines.
The Bank for International Settlements has issued a report that questions whether cryptocurrencies have any future at all.
A federal district judge in Massachusetts will hear a case beginning Thursday on alleged fraud and misappropriation of $6 million against a cryptocurrency issuer. The defence argument goes to the...
Two researchers at the University of Texas have found "substantial support" for the belief that price manipulation may be the cause of significant distortion in cryptocurrency markets.
So-called 51% attacks have been launched against several popular digital coins resulting so far in losses of several million dollars. These attacks can be easy and cheap to launch and result in a big...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday appointed its first senior official whose job is to make sense of the fast-growing world of digital currencies and assets.