November 29th, 2022
NJ, USA, 29th Nov, 2022: New Jersey-based crypto lending platform filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the latest down crypto firm after collapse of crypto exchange FTX.
BlockFi had been struggling for much of this year but was given a lifeline this summer in the form of an FTX line of credit. FTX's own bankruptcy, however...
June 15th, 2022
NYC, 15th June 2022: The tech billionaire & founder of tech company Microsoft Bill Gates, criticised cryptocurrencies and NFTs. He termed cryptocurrency & Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) as fake, saying that it is based only on the Greater fool theory.
Gates was speaking at an event on climate change hosted by TechCrunch. Bill...
November 26th, 2018Ohio, a Midwestern state in the United States has become the first stated that would accept bitcoin for tax payments. With this, now, the businesses in Ohio will be able to pay their taxes in bitcoin — making the state that’s high in the middle and round on both ends the first in the nation to accept cryptocurrency officially.
The...
July 31st, 2018In a recent news, Cryptocurrency Bitcoin fell below $8000, as investors stepped away from the risk exposure to cryptocurrencies, due to selloff in shares of technology and internet companies spilled over into other high risk assets
Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, a kind of electronic cash. It is a decentralized digital...
June 8th, 2018Popular Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband and businessman Raj Kundra was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for eight hours Tuesday against being a witness in the act of concealing the origin of illegally obtained money related to the Rs 2,000 crore bitcoin scam in Maharashtra.
Kundra was cited at the ED office...
May 17th, 2018The Internet and Mobile Association of India( IAMAI) has filed a written petition in the Supreme Court requesting a stay against the RBI’s order to not allow banks to provide services to cryptocurrency trading platforms.
IAMAI 's president Subho Ray has confirmed the filing of petition though he was not available to comment on the...
May 16th, 2018The Goldman Sachs Backed startup Circle has announced a new cryptocurrency pegged to the dollar and a $110 million investment round led by profitable crypto-mining company Bitmain on Tuesday.
The company is rolling out a digital version of the U.S dollar with a cryptocurrency pegged to it.
Interestingly, Circle is one of the most...
April 17th, 2018Prominent cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, in a deal worth more than USD 120 million, announced its significant plan to buy the United States startup that uses blockchain for its paid-email service, Earn.com.
Coinbase also appointed Indian-American, Balaji Srinivasan, co-founder and CEO, Earn.com as its first CTO, TechCrunch...