Joshua Althauser

Several exchanges, including Binance, Bitfinex and Bittrex, have closed registrations for new users.

India’s Ministry of Finance has claimed that Bitcoin and the other digital currencies are like Ponzi schemes and issued a warning for investors.

Former FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair also thinks that governments should not “make their own value judgments about Bitcoin.”

Study reveals that Louisiana is currently the most economical state for cryptocurrency mining.

EtherDelta warns its users of “malicious attacks” last night, telling them not to use the site for now.

Bitcoin’s explosive performance this year is piquing investors interest in the stock market in general, according to stock market expert Laszlo Birinyi.

Japan Finance Minister Taro Aso claims that there is still no proof that Bitcoin is a “credible currency”, and that Japanese citizens rarely use crypto.

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service has no plans to regulate cryptocurrencies in the country.

SEC suspends trading of The Crypto Co. until Jan. 3, 2018 due to alleged insider trading and potential manipulation.

Coinbase’s exchange GDAX halts BCH trading just after starting, citing “significant volatility”.

The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) introduces a financial services license for Blockchain startups.

Bill Miller’s hedge fund has around 50% of its money invested in Bitcoin.

Bitcoin.com co-founder and CTO Emil Oldenburg critiques Bitcoin’s performance and makes a case for Bitcoin Cash.

Intel has invented a “multipurpose” POW protocol that uses energy from crypto mining to sequence genetic data.

Venezuelans continue to turn to Bitcoin for survival, not speculation, as their national currency continues to die.

Patrick Byrne, Overstock CEO, may end up selling his e-commerce firm to fund a new Blockchain land registry venture.

Tom Lee believes millennials will help propel Bitcoin price even further just as baby boomers fueled stock market rally in 1980s.

The government of Venezuela plans to regulate Bitcoin mining, launching an online registry by Dec. 22.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu claims banks will disappear -- Bitcoin could replace them.

Former New Zealand prime minister calls BTC investment rumors on ‘fake news,’ Facebook refuses to remove them.

The price of IOTA (MIOTA) drops 15% to below $4.20 as of press time, after reaching an intraday high of $5.03 yesterday

The chairman of the CFTC remarks on the risks posed by cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)

Goldman Sachs’ Jeffrey Currie claims that Bitcoin and gold have different investor pools

IOTA team clarifies: no official partnership with Microsoft, despite ambiguous announcement in late November.

Bitcoin Cash will be available in Visa debit card soon.

Starbucks WiFi provider secretly mining cryptocurrencies via customers’ computers

3 out of 4 Bitcoin sites gets attacked, based on industry report.

Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi, has projected that 2018 will be a very good year for Bitcoin Cash.

By February 2020, Bitcoin mining will require as much energy as we spend today across all sources, according to meteorologist Eric Holthaus.

Due to the recent hype of Bitcoin earlier this week, Litecoin (LTC) has reacted with a massive run of its own.