As November approaches, attention is centered on Bitcoin and the politics surrounding the upcoming hard fork. Social media exploded with users sporting the [no2x] tag when Charlie Lee, creator of Litecoin, voiced his opinion about the fork. As a regular user who doesn't contribute to the code base, it can be difficult to make an…

CryptoNews came across this fantastic cryptocurrency trade monitoring tool called CoinTracking.info. We reached out to them for a feature interview, and you are reading the results of that course of action. Our writer Zoran Spirkovski had a chat with Dario Kachel, founder of CoinTracking. We've learned more about their service, their target audience, and what their tool…

Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a very popular topic at the moment. Countries like Finland and the Netherlands have conducted exploratory initiatives on the topic, with small-scale experiments to see how it fares. UBI is a concept that is increasingly advocated by those who want to streamline the social welfare system while simultaneously future-proofing it for a…

The Raiden Network is a development for Ethereum that seeks to move transactions off the ETH blockchain, making it more efficient for users and making the blockchain faster. It involves creating smart contracts between users so they can exchange funds between each other, and the overall balance is only settled when one of the contract…

By Anton Dzyatkovsky, co-founder of MicroMoney The catch-22 is a paradoxical situation from which an individual cannot escape because of contradictory rules. The catch-22 of modern banking is that if you need a credit, you need a credit score, and to get a credit score you need a credit. Logically enough, banks have to spend hundreds…

The cryptocurrency revolution is well underway, and with each new development, governments, businesses, and individuals across the globe are realizing the tremendous potential of digital assets and their underlying blockchain technology. Since the introduction of Bitcoin in 2008, crypto has made big strides towards mass adoption, and now has a market cap of well over…

During the last couple of years, numerous Bitcoin exchanges and user accounts have been targeted by hackers, looking for some free cash. While the market has been hit by several attacks over the years, many of which left deep wounds in the digital currency community, the case of a few recent OKCoin hacks have been…

On September 27 this year, in the Plenary Sessions small hall of the Federation Council, experts held a closed meeting of the Federation Council Committee on economic policy with agenda on modern trends in the digital transformation of financial systems, with emphasis on digital money for Russia’s digital economy. The meeting moderator Alexey Mayorov, First Deputy…

On September 29th, South Korea's Financial Services (FSC) announced a ban on all forms of initial coin offerings regardless of the technology or terminology employed.  The FSC reasons that ICOs are too speculative and volatile and wants to protect investors from scams and market manipulation. Furthermore, the FSC will continue to discuss regulations regarding established…

Viberate, a blockchain platform for live music, recently set a record as one of the fastest token crowdsales to date, raising 10.7 million dollars in under five minutes and joining the ranks of Brave, Bancor and Aragon. Starting October 6, Vibe tokens - the main cryptocurrency of the platform - will begin trading on Livecoin.net exchange.…