Black Markets, Fraud, and Money Laundering: How Much Are Cryptocurrencies Used For Crime?
BY DANICA SERGISON
At the FinTech Canada conference this August, leading cryptocurrency trial attorney Brian Klein gave an excellent overview of how cryptocurrencies have been used for illegal purposes and what law...
Bitcoin is dead — long live digital currencies
By FRANK KANE
At a recent conference in Abu Dhabi on blockchain technology and the financial industry, the governor of the UAE central bank said that...
What is Blockchain and What Can It Do?
The rapid emergence and implementation of a decentralised public ledger allowing peer-to-peer transactions without the trusted middleman, has unearthed countless uses for any system...
Blockchain tech will not push fiat currencies aside anytime soon
By NASTASSIA ARENDSE
Wide adoption of blockchain technology for a cryptocurrency payments system is intriguing but decades away, says the Reserve Bank.
This effectively means SA’s...
Forget Bitcoin, this is How China Plans to Dominate the $102 Trillion Blockchain Space
By Dalmas Ngetich
No doubt, blockchain is spawning a new movement that is disruptive to traditional tech companies. The new age of blockchain is what crypto...
JANET YELLEN: ‘I’M NOT A FAN OF BITCOIN’
By Pat Rabbitte
Speaking at the Canada Fintech Forum in Montreal on Monday, Ex-Federal Reserve Chair, Janet Yellen slated cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Her criticisms were in the same vein...
Bitcoin, Other Cryptocurrencies Could Surge in the Next Financial Crisis Says ShapeShift CEO
By Mark Alcala
The cryptocurrency sector might end up becoming the biggest winner should the next global financial crisis happen. Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees argues that...
IN CHINA THE MANTRA REMAINS ‘BLOCKCHAIN NOT BITCOIN’
By KEVIN O’BRIEN
It’s no secret that China has been determined to dampen the cryptocurrency industry while setting themselves up to dominate the blockchain scene.
In late August, 124...
Crypto Price Boom Means More for Digital Currencies than Money
By Fabian Figueredo
2017 was one the most significant years in the short history of cryptocurrencies. Despite being around since 2009, Bitcoin (BTC) and its peers...
Crypto Leaders Weigh In On Bitcoin Collapse, $3,000 Target Touted
by Nick Chong
While some industry savants expected crypto’s recent crash for months on end, many ‘common Joe’ investors were caught off-guard by this rapid bout...
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CapitalBay to launch P2P Financing Platform that Provides Supply Chain Financing to Businesses
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KUALA LUMPUR, 17 May - CapitalBay, an award-winning Malaysian multi-bank supply chain finance platform has received...