247 | Latest Cryptocurrency News, Bitcoin & Crypto Updates 2025

How to Pitch Your Blockchain Startup to Heavyweight Chinese Investors

Global blockchain players are urged to grow their businesses in China to help develop its fast growing economy and feed hungry Chinese investors. Bo Ji, Assistant Dean to China’s elite Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) founded by Li Ka Shing, a Hong Kong business magnate, has...

, by Samantha Yap

BitFury Aims to Advance Multiple Government Projects

Amsterdam-based BitFury Group is in talks with a number of governments on potential projects to help public authorities enhance their performance through the use of blockchain solutions.BitFury describes itself as a full-service blockchain technology company with a portfolio of hardware and...

, by Jaroslaw Adamowski

The World of Pop Music Plays the Sound of Crypto

Pop music appears to have embarked on a mission to embrace cryptocurrencies in 2018. This time, South Korea’s two national obsessions, crypto and K-pop, have finally converged, with two of the biggest names in Korean popular music issuing altcoins.Eunjung and Qri, members of chart-topping...

, by Tim Alper

Morning News: Coincheck’s ‘No’ to Bankruptcy, Yakuza ‘Crypto Deals’

- Coincheck Seeks Funding Deal - “Yakuza Dealing in Crypto” - US Politicians Speak in Favor of Crypto Regulations - S Korean Regulator Bans its Staff from Crypto TradingCatch up on the most essential cryptocurrency and blockchain news stories breaking in Asia and the Americas while...

, by Tim Alper

Crypto Robberies At Gunpoint Increasing in Frequency

While blockchain technology makes theft by hacking virtually impossible, along with tracking all owners of a single crypto token, thieves now have to resort to old-fashioned ways of stealing these virtual coins.A month ago, two crypto traders were attacked in their family home in rural England,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Vitalik Buterin Urges Cautious Approach to Crypto, Is Dismissed

On Saturday, Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of Ethereum platform, once more took to Twitter to urge against going all-in in any cryptocurrency, instead proffering the safety of traditional assets. He tweeted, “Reminder: cryptocurrencies are still a new and hyper-volatile asset class, and could...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Experts: Russia’s Cryptorouble “May Not Be for Public Use”

Russia’s financial powers-that-be are deadly serious about issuing a national digital currency, and may even come good with their promises within the year, per experts. But what will this ambitious new coin look like, and what problems will it have to overcome?When Bank of Russia chairwoman...

, by Tim Alper

10 Bitcoin Trading Mistakes Beginners Need to Avoid

The cryptocurrency markets have become very popular among private investors as the potential for high returns is higher than in any other asset class available today. However, cryptocurrencies are also a very risky investment. To help you get started without making many of the most common newbie...

, by Alex Lielacher

Morning News: Top S Korean Regulator Dies, Kimchi Premium Returns

Heart Attack Claims the Life of S Korea’s Top Crypto Regulator Return of the “Kimchi Premium” “China Has Completely Quashed Crypto Market” S Korea’s Commission Could Take Action against ExchangesCatch up on the most essential cryptocurrency and blockchain...

, by Tim Alper

PyeongChang Winter Olympians Hot and Cold on Crypto

Few countries have experienced crypto mania quite like South Korea. This might lead you to expect that this year’s Winter Olympics, currently taking place in the South Korean town of PyeongChang, might be more about bitcoin than bobsleigh. But is this the case?Frosty ReceptionWinter Olympians...

, by Tim Alper

Estonian Crypto PR Bumps Into the Law

A blog post from an Estonian government official about a new crypto-token, estcoin, has added to widespread excitement over the Baltic country and its plans for using cryptocurrencies and the blockchain. Should investors in crypto matters look to Estonia next? On the official blog of Estonian...

, by Stuart Garlick

The Blockchain is Coming for Facebook

While there seems to be little hope of escaping Facebook power and influence at this precise moment in history, a number of new social networks have been emerging recently that just might possibly begin the slow process of reducing it down to size. These networks are based on and around blockchain...

, by Simon Chandler

Cryptocurrency Buying Obstacles and How to Overcome Them

A few years ago, I had decided I wanted to own cryptocurrency. Given that nobody wanted to do business in my country, I had to convince a friend in Qatar to buy it for me. After that, I waited for him to come back home for holidays to refund him for his work. Couldn’t be simpler, right? Sure,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Bitcoin Rich Kids in Puerto Rico: Crypto Utopia or Crypto-Colonialism?

Larisa Yarovaya, Anglia Ruskin University and Brian Lucey, Trinity College DublinCryptocurrency entrepreneurs have moved to Puerto Rico to build a crypto utopia – initially dubbed Puertopia but now named Sol – where they plan to pay little in taxes.The crypto expats also hope to...

, by Brian Lucey

Malaysia’s Central Bank: Let the People Decide the Fate of Crypto

Bank Negara Malaysia, the central bank of the country, is soon going to release a concept paper for the public to decide what to do with cryptocurrency in the country, according to Borneo Bulletin.The bank’s governor, Muhammad bin Ibrahim, stressed during a Q&A session at the 40th...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

An Interview: Hacks Are Good For the Crypto Industry

The current situation in the crypto world is, to put it mildly, worrying: there was the Coincheck hack, the Bitfinex and Tether subpoena, more exit scams than we dare think of (1, 2, 3), and as a result FUD (Fear, uncertainty and doubt) was spreading like wildfire amid market crashes. We talked to...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

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