cryptocurrency

EQUI is a web-based application on the popular Ethereum blockchain

On the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange, it fell as low as $6,853.53

Banks in Britain, the US ban use of credit cards to buy cryptocurrencies

Kim Byung-kee, a member of South Korea’s intelligence committee did not disclose which exchanges were hacked

Amid fears that Britain's biggest mortgage lender could run up huge losses

The cryptocurrency dipped below $9,000 for the first time since November

The social media platform had been under scrutiny for posts promoting fake news

The transactions will be made inside the messaging app, which already incorporates a mobile payment system

The theft highlights the vulnerabilities in trading an asset that global policymakers are struggling to regulate

Coincheck posted on its website on Friday afternoon that it had suspended withdrawals of almost all cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrency has fallen 50% since record-high on Dec 18

National authorities across the globe have attempted to put the brakes on a global boom in the trading of Bitcoin

The city-state has been positioning itself as a hub for fintech but has urged “extreme caution”

As part of the arrangement, it will test the use of Ripple’s cryptocurrency to move funds in a faster and cheaper way

It has previously said that cryptocurrencies were not recognized as a legal medium of exchange

While none can match Bitcoin's $242 billion market capitalisation

It has grown into one of the world’s biggest sources of cryptocurrency mining

The clampdown came as policymaker around the world struggled to regulate an asset whose value has skyrocketed

He had called bitcoin a fraud at a bank investor conference in New York in September

It is currently unable to function as a means of payment and it is being used for illegal purposes

The Wall Street brokerage stopped approving new orders due to concerns about the suitability and eligibility standards

While the People’s Bank of China can’t directly regulate bitcoin miners’ power usage

They crammed into a classroom to share tips on investing and sharing tales of fantastic returns for savvy investors

Cryptocurrencies are not legal tender and have no regulatory permission or protection in the country

The steps will include a ban on opening anonymous cryptocurrency accounts

The world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency fell nearly 30 per cent

The emergence of bitcoin has some economists predicting the use of technology one day to run entire economies

Loses more than 20% amid purported profit-taking

Bitcoin has lost a third of its value but its supporters dismiss warnings over volatility

The Wall Street bank aims to get the business running by the end of June

Bitcoin dropped briefly from around $16,500 in late trading on Thursday

Singapore's concerns echo those expressed by regulators in other jurisdictions such as Australia and South Korea

US authorities on Tuesday suspended trading in a popular Bitcoin-related stock

The suspension will remain in place until January 3

Bitcoin’s prices have risen more than 1,700 per cent since the start of the year

The future launch is seen as another step towards big institutional investors warming up to a volatile asset

The company will join the so-called "Bitcoin mining" business

While Bitfinex said its servers had been intentionally flooded with junk online requests taking down its website

Venezuela's inflation is expected to top 1,000 per cent this year

The cryptocurrency was last up 2 per cent on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp

The British finance ministry said it expected negotiations over changes to the EU rules

How to secure data and sharing it so the owner keeps control is what they have wrestled with for years

Something that moves up and down 20 per cent in a day doesn’t feel like a currency he said

Many entrepreneurs are moving businesses to locations more welcoming to cryptocurrencies and known for low taxes

The digital currency has seen an eye-watering tenfold increase in its value since the start of the year

According to Ned Naylor-Leyland, the manager of Old Mutual Gold & Silver Fund

The past weekend shockingly the price fell down to $5600 in a day, an all-time low

The organizers broke US securities laws and defrauded and misled participants in the online fundraiser

He expects major financial firms to soon start to offer bitcoin or similar products as an investment option

He called it a very speculative instrument that people use for money laundering