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This is not good.The Federal Reserve is looking at a broad range of issues around digital payments and currencies, including policy, design and legal considerations around potentially issuing its own digital currency, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainar

The World Economic Forum said it is putting together a consortium to write guidelines for cryptocurrency governance. The news lifted the price of Bitcoin.

Lawmakers and activists are proposing a digital payment platform and currency to help millions of New Yorkers without bank accounts.

A Federal Reserve official supported a study claiming that 25% of Bitcoin users and 50% of transactions are in some way illegal

Ripple has raised a $200 million Series C funding round. Tetragon is leading the round, with SBI Holdings and Route 66 Ventures also participating. According to Fortune, the company is now valued at $10 billion. "We are in a strong financial position

Binance, the worlds biggest cryptocurrency exchange, has agreed to work with the Ministry of Digital Transformationto develop a strategy for the imp

America's eighth-largest bank PNC becomes the country's first to start processing cross-border payments using the RippleNet

By CCN Markets: The handful of Bitcoin fans who are still begging for the "real" Satoshi Nakamoto to please stand up may get their wish as early as today. However, most of the crypto community isn't getting worked up. They're in no mood to

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has taken the opportunity to plug XRP as a solution to the concerns raised by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Speaking on Twitter, Garlinghouse said that he hopes regulators recognize that not all cryptocurrencies are cut f

After touching past the $12,000 mark the past week, leading digital currency Bitcoin fell below the $10,000 price level on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump joined in the fray on bashing cryptocurrencies.

One of Donald Trump's top allies in Congress has diverged from the president on what has suddenly become one of the federal government's top priorities: bitcoin. Kevin McCarthy Is a Bitcoin Fan House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told CNBC that u

Bitcoin investors are concerned that lawmakers' pressure on Facebook's Libra could ripple throughout the cryptocurrency market.

Facebook's Libra stablecoin a big mistake, according to Dallas Mavericks basketball team owner and billionaire investor Mark Cuban

As massive banks like JPMorgan and Wells Fargo prepare to release their Q2 earnings report next week, a growing threat to traditional finance, cryptocurrencies, are becoming too disruptive to ignore. While many of these banks have resisted the coming chan

"I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air," Trump said.

The bitcoin price crashed below $11,000 on Thursday. It has lost more than $3,000 - or 20% - since peaking near $14,000 less than 24 hours ago.

Facebook unveiled a cryptocurrency called Libra yesterday as well as the Libra Association, a not-for-profit that will oversee all things Libra. While Libra's white paper draws a lot of inspiration from other cryptocurrencies, the current governance m

A US lawmaker asks Facebook to wait before launching its digital currency, hours after it was announced.

Facebook made a renewed push into payments on Tuesday, announcing plans for a cryptocurrency called Libra.

Now that Facebook, together with an army of partners, has entered the crypto space with Libra , the blockchain community is as polarized as ever. Some are merely brushing it off as just another coin; others think it will crush the major cryptocurrencies o