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US-North Korea nuclear standoff sees bitcoin surge past $4,000
Cryptocurrency saw record inflows from safe-haven seekers taking it to fresh record highs.
Suspected 'Boiler room' scam selling 'worthless' cryptocurrency to City investors busted
City of London police have foiled a scam to sell fake digital currencies.
Russia's central securities depository and Waves building blockchain platform
Russia's National Settlement Depository (NSD) has kickstarted a crypto assets platform with the Waves team.
Leaked email from HBO hacker shows network offered $250,000 payoff as 'bug bounty'
Alleged email reveal talks with criminal who published Game Of Thrones Scripts.
Bitcoen is world's first kosher cryptocurrency for the Jewish community
Russian entrepreneur invests $500,000 into bitcoin-like digital currency.
Synereo launches WildSpark to reward content creation with cryptocurrency
Incentives on WildSpark are facilitated by AMP, the cryptocurrency token issued by Synereo in 2015.
Shadow Brokers have allegedly already made nearly $90,000 from their monthly hacking tool dumps
The mysterious hacker group has reportedly raked in thousands in Monero between July and August.
Blockchain, big data and the value of global trade
Blockchain and data science experts talk about the hidden value of distributed ledger technology.
Two Iranian citizens facing US federal charges for hacking 'conspiracy'
The alleged plot involved hacking and credit card fraud by Iranian citizens.
Solidum Partners completes first catastrophe bond on a blockchain
$148m of notes were settled using the ILSBlockchain.
Tor Network co-founder denies criminal activity enabled by anonymous browsing platform
Tor software is a force for good in the world, argues co-founder Roger Dingledine.
US fintech firm raises stakes in bid for London-listed Monitise
Fiserv makes improved offer for payments processing firm after criticism its £70m offer was too low.
Eleven banks develop trade finance app on R3's Corda DLT platform
App built following twelve months of development and testing, holds potential to improve trade flows, particularly for SMEs in developing economies.
Hard forks and contract hacks – Tezos aims to solve blockchain's problems
Tezos is a smart contract blockchain platform that recently raised $232m.
Who are the Black Death? Dark web group linked to terrifying kidnap of British model
Police found a note about the group which read: "If you wish, we can kidnap a specific target for your needs".
Filecoin laments shutting out crypto supporters to meet SEC regulations
IPFS creator Juan Benet talks about Filecoin, which has already gathered $52m from investors.
WannaCry hackers are converting bitcoins to 'totally anonymous' Monero to hide their tracks
Monero is an extremely privacy-oriented cryptocurrency and is nearly impossible to track.
Could there be a national cryptocurrency? The 21st century gold standard
Luis Cuende is co-founder and project lead of Aragon, co-founder of Stampery and creator of world's first Linux distro with facelogin.
MultiChain 1.0 released: Gideon Greenspan muses on blockchain privacy and smart contract languages
MultiChain's partner programme includes the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Medici Ventures.
Canada's ETHWaterloo to be world's largest Ethereum hackathon
Ethereum chief scientist Vitalik Buterin dropped out of University of Waterloo, Ontario.
Bitcoin Cash fork – how, what, when and why?
Charles Hayter, CEO of CryptoCompare, takes stock of BitcoinCash and the split in the community.
Solar power can make you rich: Users could sell electricity to neighbours using blockchain
LO3 Energy wants to enable people to make peer-to-peer energy transactions with other users across the grid.
Ethereum miners are so desperate for graphics cards that they are renting Boeing 747s
Cryptocurrency mining firms scrambling for graphics cards as AMD share prices rise by 10%.
Alex Tapscott launches digital asset investment firm NextBlock Global with $20m financing
NextBlock Global will immediately give investors diversified exposure to the most promising investments.
Europe must supercharge its efforts to support cross-border fintech
Jevgenijs Kazanins, P2P Platform Lead at TWINO, looks at fintech in Europe.
PSD2: A leap of financial faith?
Words from Christophe Vergne, Payment Solutions Head at Capgemini Financial Services France and Jan Dirk van Beusekom, Executive Director BNP Paribas Cash Management.
R3's Richard Brown: IBM should adopt Corda
Richard Gendal Brown, chief technology officer at R3, was previously executive architect for banking and financial markets at IBM.
Accord Project joins Hyperledger to push standards for smart contracts
Hyperledger welcomed 10 new members in total.
There is no 'but it's blockchain' exemption in US Securities law
Stephen D. Palley, a lawyer in the Washington D.C. office of Anderson Kill, talks about token sales.
Is Kim Jong-un on World of Tanks? The internet habits of North Korea's elite revealed
Only elites access the web in North Korea, and they apparently love World of Tanks.