The popular wallet service Electrum is soon to add support for bitcoin’s lightning network. Electrum’s founder Thomas Voegtlin told CoinDesk from the BIP001 blockchain event in Odessa, Ukraine, that work on the solution…

View BTC has fallen more than $1,000 in the last 24 hours, establishing a bearish lower high at $12,061. A high-volume break above $12,061 is thus needed to revive the bullish view…

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has ordered one of the nation’s largest banks to allow customers to access to his controversial cryptocurrency, the petro. The Venezuelan Ministry of Finance tweeted the news late…

Kirk Phillips is an entrepreneur, certified public accountant (CPA) and author of “The Ultimate Bitcoin Business Guide: For Entrepreneurs & Business Advisors.” Adam B. Levine is the creator of the long-running Let’s…

A consortium of Australia-based financial services companies have teamed up with IBM and shopping center operator Scentre Group to launch a pilot that puts retail lease bank guarantees on a private blockchain.…

Shinhan Bank, the second largest financial group in South Korea by assets, is redoubling its efforts to police accounts related to cryptocurrency exchanges, according to local press reports. The goal? To completely…

New research has found that the U.S. leads the world in the volume of tweets referencing bitcoin and Facebook’s planned Libra cryptocurrency. Fittingly published as a Twitter thread by crypto trading platform The…

With the supply of new coins to be halved in less than five weeks, litecoin is outpacing its peers. The fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is currently trading at $123, representing 5 percent…

An Australian couple lost over AU$20,000 (US$14,000) in a bitcoin scam, and were even taunted by the perpetrator over their losses. According to a report by the ABC, Nick and Josie Yeomans…

BTG Pactual, Brazil’s fifth largest bank, plans to utilize the Tezos blockchain for security token offerings potentially worth $1 billion. For the effort, BTG – also Brazil’s largest standalone investment bank –…