Within a year, cryptojacking software sales increased fivefold. Software allows to engage in fraudulent activities persons with low technical knowledge.

Russian-speaking cryptocurrency exchange WEX, formerly known as BTC-e, was sold to a militiaman who fought in separatist Ukranian region of Donbass. He earlier explained that such inrecognized states as Donbass, Abkhazia and Transnistria are in need of financial system resistant to sanctions.   

Crowdsales of blockchain projects continue to attract billions of dollars from investors, but more than a half of start-ups that launched ICOs in the second quarter of 2018 failed to attract the planned amount of investment.

Two researchers at Yale University analyzed the historic prices of three cryptocurrencies and found out what factors should be guided when investing in cryptocurrencies.

The total capitalization of the cryptocurrency market fell to a 9-month low, losing over $30 billion within a day. Bitcoin is traded again at the mark of $6,200.

It giant Microsoft announced a new product based on the Azure platform, allowing companies to deploy their own blockchains on Ethereum.

Voters from West Virginia will be able to use the blockchain application for voting during the election of members of the House of Representatives and Senate in November 2018.

Splitt, a recently launched cloud server cryptocurrency mining service, is now making crypto mining user-friendly and safe like never before. Available currently in fifteen cities around the world, Splitt's Cryptocurrency Cloud Server is steadily gaining popularity amongst the amateurs as well as experts looking to mine cryptocurrencies on a larger scale.

Researchers found a ramified network of bots promoting cryptocurrency fraudulent schemes in the social network. The most popular way to cheat investors is so called giveaways of coins.

Blockchain based fintech startup Crypterium challenges classic banks by introducing its new feature that allows its users to transfer any amount of cryptocurrency using not the complicated wallet addresses, but simply the recipient phone number.

Since the beginning of the year, the number of ATMs providing services for purchase or sale of cryptocurrencies has almost doubled. The majority of them allows to buy and sell bitcoins and is located in the US.

Trades on the largest cryptocurrency exchanges are manipulated by groups of scammers who use the "pump and dump" schemes forbidden in the traditional financial market.