BITCOIN

The European Central Bank's Benoît Cœuré shared the opinion of Agustín Carstens, a Mexican economist, that bitcoin is "a combination of a bubble, a Ponzi scheme, and an environmental disaster."

Japan's Financial Services Agency discussed in a meeting the likely regulatory measures — internal control, management of cryptocurrencies, audits — that could be applied to cryptocurrency wallet services.

Although bitcoin and most other major cryptocurrencies have been relatively stable for a few months, 2018 has been a terrible year for these digital assets so far.

Blockchain-based Art Platform Maecenas said it will conduct the first “perpetual” digitalization and tokenization of a Picasso work of fine art under a project named Project Phoenix.

Well known mining rig manufacturer Bitmain has filed a lawsuit against an unknown hacker for allegedly stealing $5.5 million worth of cryptocurrency from its Binance account.

On Sunday, Lumens' market cap rose from $4.81 billion to $5 billion. Previously, the fifth place in the list of cryptocurrencies was held by EOS token, whose market cap fell from $5.1 billion to $4.8 billion.

An Irish payment solutions platform plans to develop a blockchain-based mobile app to compensate and refund passengers when flights get delayed or canceled.

A French lawmakers' panel has adopted a budget amendment that will align the taxation of gains made from bitcoin with the taxation of capital income.

CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo said technological advances including DLT could help regulators better oversee trading markets.

The investment community had expected a statement from the SEC after its Nov. 5 deadline for public comments on nine bitcoin ETF applications ended.

Stellar hopes the biggest crypto airdrop will put its name and technology in front of Blockchain’s 30 million account holders, and will bring many new users into the ecosystem.

Bitcoin scammers hacked into Twitter business accounts to run a fake Elon Musk bitcoin promotion.

The blockchain-enabled letter of credit transaction facilitated shipment between Reliance and the US-based Tricon Energy. ING Bank issued the LC and HSBC India was negotiating bank for Reliance Industries.

The highest gainers in the last 24 hours among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap are ethereum, bitcoin cash, litecoin, and monero.

Nasdaq plans to curb manipulation and scams that have plagued cryptocurrency space. Morgan Stanley is tracking the implications and the future of bitcoin says bitcoin is now increasingly traded against digital assets.

Its been 10 years since the white paper on bitcoin was published by an unknown person or a group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto.

Oct. 31, 2018, marks a a decade since Satoshi Nakamoto published his White Paper introducing Bitcoin, the world’s first electronic cash technology.

In September, Goldman Sachs had dismissed reports of starting trade of bitcoin derivatives, but new reports suggest the company has already taken on clients for its new business.

Bitcoin is not a legally accepted currency in China but that does not prevent it from being protected by law as property, according to the Asian country's arbitration body.

Canada-based cryptocurrency exchange MapleChange said Sunday it had no money left to pay anyone, and hence was forced to close down operations and its associated social media accounts as well.

The proposed new regulations require blockchain users in China to register with their real names and national ID card numbers, taking away one of the intrinsic properties of blockchain — anonymity.