118 | Latest Cryptocurrency News, Bitcoin & Crypto Updates 2026

This Company with 2m Wallets Knows Where Revolution Is Happening

Contrary to the popular belief, the real crypto revolution is happening in the emerging, not western markets, said Magdalena Golebiewska, head of Eastern Europe region at Luno, a Bitcoin company boasting two million global accounts.People in the emerging markets, such as Africa and Asia are...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Kraken Confirms Job Cuts but US Public Still Crypto Keen

Job cuts are looming in America’s crypto sector with a major exchange set to ax dozens of employees – but the United States public has not yet lost its enthusiasm for Bitcoin and altcoins, per a new survey from researcher YouGov.The online survey of 1,202 adults between 29th - 30th...

, by Tim Alper

EU Finance Chiefs Advised to Regulate Exchanges, ICOs

EU economy and finance ministers reportedly will be advised to adopt a common policy on cryptocurrencies, and will be asked to consider regulating trading and policing initial coin offerings (ICOs).News agency Reuters claims a Belgian economic think-tank named Bruegel – which advises...

, by Tim Alper

Bittrex Moves to Delist Bitcoin Gold, the Coin Moves Up

One of the most popular hard forks of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Gold, is now facing removal from cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex. This removal follows a series of heists that netted thieves over USD 20 million in stolen funds in May this year. However, this turn of events did not bring the price down: it...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

A New Chance for Crypto Trading (and Coinbase) in Japan

Japan’s regulatory Financial Services Agency (FSA) will now likely start processing applications of potential new cryptocurrency exchanges again – should candidates meet all of its new requirements. Among candidates is American cryptocurrency exchange giant and wallet provider...

, by Tim Alper

S Korean Gov’t To Take Bigger Slice of Exchange Profits

The South Korean government has confirmed that it will move to strip cryptocurrency exchanges of the same sort of tax breaks and business incentives it offers to other small- and medium-sized businesses in the country.As previously reported on Cryptonews.com, the government made its initial...

, by Tim Alper

Philippines Opens Door for Exchange Expansion

The government of the Philippines could be set to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges, paving the way for official recognition. Per the Manila Times, the commissioner of the country’s financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), could even issue a comprehensive set of...

, by Tim Alper

Victim of the Biggest Hack, Coincheck Tries to Regain Trust

Japanese cryptocurrency platform Coincheck has taken another step towards repairing its reputation – devastated in January by the biggest exchange hack in history.The exchange, which was taken over by the Monex Group in April this year, has decided to beef up its security system with a...

, by Tim Alper

N Korea Making Surprise Crypto, Blockchain Moves

North Korea is seemingly making a concerted bid to enter the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.Per a report published by South Korea’s government-owned Korea Development Bank (KDB), a policy bank that finances and manages major industrial projects in the South, Pyongyang is...

, by Tim Alper

S Korea: Major Exchanges Still Making Profits

Business appears to be still profitable for South Korea’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges after the three biggest platforms in the nation disclosed their earnings for the first half of 2018. The news comes in spite of a market downturn in the country that began in late January and has yet to...

, by Tim Alper

China to Slam Another Banhammer on Crypto – Report

China is continuing its crackdown on all things crypto, and this time it’s targeting foreign exchanges. State owned media is reporting that access to 124 unnamed foreign cryptocurrency exchanges, which offer their services to the mainland Chinese, will be closed. The same report in Shanghai...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Japanese Exchanges Snap up Soccer Superstars to Lure New Clients

Two Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platforms, BITPoint and GMO Internet, have made significant moves to reignite public thirst for Bitcoin and altcoin trading – using A-list celebrity endorsements for the first time since the Coincheck hack in January this year.BITPoint has unveiled...

, by Tim Alper

Self-Regulation of Crypto Gets One Step Closer

Four US-based crypto exchanges have announced that they are setting up the precursor to what they hope will become a self-regulatory organization for “virtual commodities.”The aim of the group, dubbed “Virtual Commodity Association Working Group,” is reportedly to help...

, by Fredrik Vold

SBI Group Invests in Rival Japanese Exchange

Financial giant SBI Group has made a second investment in LastRoots, a Tokyo-based exchange established in 2016. The undisclosed investment, made through financial subsidy SBI Holdings, is the group’s second within the space of a year, and comes just a month after the launch of the...

, by Tim Alper

Seoul Delivers Crypto Exchanges Funding Blow

South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges have been hit with more bad news after the central government said it would change such companies’ legal financial status – making it almost impossible for domestic venture bodies to invest in the country’s exchanges.Media outlet Money Today...

, by Tim Alper

Digital Assets Mainstream Within 5 Years: Exec at Swiss Exchange

Thomas Zeeb, head of securities and exchanges at SIX Group responsible for the Swiss stock exchange's new digital asset platform (SDX), is of the opinion that crypto is at the same place where financial derivatives were in the early 90s. But it won’t take 30 years to go mainstream - “it...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

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