Former IMF Chief Economist and current Harvard University Professor of Economics and Public Policy Kenneth Rogoff believes that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies currently amount to little more than “lottery tickets” at this moment in time. Writing in the Guardian on Monday, Rogoff stated that while some believe that cryptocurrencies have had their day and are […]

Months after publishing a “blockchain call” to startups that could benefit humanity, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has invested in six blockchain startups. In January 2018, UNICEF called for early-stage technology startups that were registered in one of UNICEF’s programme countries. It received over 100 applications from 50 different countries. The organization […]

It’s no secret that 2018 has been a rough year for cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin falling over 80% from its 2017 highs, and most major altcoins dropping 90% or more. Despite the market’s poor performance, one venture capitalist laid out his case for why Bitcoin and Ethereum are currently oversold from a fundamental standpoint. The past […]

A member of the British Parliament wants UK residents to be able to pay their local taxes and utility bills using bitcoin. Eddie Hughes, a conservative MP (member of Parliament) for the Walsall North constituency, said this would be a great first step toward mainstream adoption of crypto. Hughes said it’s time for other members […]

One of the oldest tactics for scammers on the web is to register a domain with a very similar spelling to an official site, make it look exactly the same, and proceed to scam people intending to use the real site. This is why some crypto exchanges like Binance have a reminder on their login […]

It is no secret that Nouriel Roubini hates cryptocurrency. For most of 2018, the American economist has been smugly congratulating himself for denouncing the entire space as toxic and stating that prices were heading to zero. The problem is, Bitcoin is still up more than 60x since he first took up his anti-crypto offensive in […]

It was the announcement that ripple (XRP) investors had been anticipating for more than a year, but the news that crypto exchange giant Coinbase was “exploring” support for the second-largest cryptocurrency failed to elicit even a microcosm of the sort of rally that even the mere rumor of a Coinbase listing frequently catalyzed during the […]

The cryptocurrency markets posted slight gains over the weekend and have recovered slightly from last week’s dip that sent most cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, to fresh yearly lows. Despite the current price action being seen as capitulation by some investors, one analyst claims that the crypto bear market is still far from over. At the time […]

After reporting on the story that Miami-based UnitedCorp had filed suit against Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Bitmain, Bitcoin.com, and Kraken exchange, CCN had the opportunity to talk to Lawry Trevor-Deutsch, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, about the motivation for the lawsuit. The first thing that should be disclosed is that UnitedCorp says that it is not […]

The gains Bitcoin made during the Friday and weekend trading session fizzled at the beginning of this week. The digital currency’s recovery lost steam after establishing an intraday high at 3640-fiat, now thrice in December. It dropped as much as 4.4% on Monday, confirming a weak bull sentiment near the said resistance area. At the […]

The general public may still associate the term “blockchain” with Bitcoin, but members of the crypto space know that the technology has far more applications. One field blockchain is on the verge of revolutionizing is supply chain management. Blockchain provides unprecedented levels of transparency in an industry once connected by paperwork and human error.  How […]

Mastercard, the company who have gone through the entire process of laughing, fighting, and then embracing Bitcoin (and then attacking it again), have applied for another new patent in the blockchain space. Their last one was in regards to — we’re not making this up — a fractional reserve crypto bank. They describe a novel […]