Canadian authorities seize $3.7 million in bitcoins from cryptocurrency scammer
The Quebec City Court ruled to freeze assets of a well-known cryptocurrency scammer and ordered him to transfer his bitcoins to a special account opened by authorities.
Pink Taxi launches an ICO in support of middle eastern women struggle for emancipation
Pink Taxi, the world’s first blockchain-powered taxi for women, launched its ICO on July 1, 2018 against the background of growing women’s emancipation movement in Middle Eastern countries.
Fortune introduces more cryptocurrency leaders in its
Fortune Magazine published its regular "40 under 40" rating which gathered the most influential young people in business all around the world. This year the list included Pavel Durov, Telegram cofounder.
EOS called the best cryptocurrency project again in China
The Chinese authorities again put EOS on the first place in the rating of the best blockchain and cryptocurrency projects. Bitcoin still can not enter the top 10 of the rating.
Augur closes first markets of predictions and pays out $20,000
The decentralized platform for predictions Augur, which launched in early July, announced closure of first prediction markets and paid about $20,000 in ETH to predictors and bidders..
Stellar overcomes Litecoin and becomes fifth cryptocurrency by capitalization
The decentralized platform Stellar outperformed Litecoin in the rating of cryptocurrencies by capitalization and stepped up to the fifth line. Within a week, the price of XLM jumped more than 1.5 times.
US Congress holds hearings on cryptocurrencies
The subcommittee on monetary policy and trade of the US Congress held hearings on digital currencies. Cryptocurrencies are innovative asset that needs to be regulated, but it should be done carefully, the hearings come to such a conclusion.
New York Post connects Gemini's donations to New York governor's electoral campaign and BitLicense approval
The co-founders of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange donated $100,000 to the Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo's electoral campaign. After less than a month their exchange was granted with BitLicense.
Vitalik Buterin confirms spam attack on Ethereum and gives its cost estimates
Vitalik Buterin confirmed suspicions that the recent overload of the Ethereum network was the result of a spam attack, and suggested that it costed to attackers about $15 million.
Three mining producers from China officially called unicorns for first time
The rating of the Chinese unicorn companies for the first time included participants from the cryptocurrency industry. They are three Chinese companies that produce mining equipment.
Petition website Change.org to start cryptocurrency mining
Change.org has announced the launch of a special screensaver program that will mine Monero on website visitors' computers. The money will be spent on charity.
Bitcoin network suddenly demonstrates sharp fee rising
While the number of unconfirmed transactions recently rarely has exceeded 2,000 or 3,000 tx, on 16 July, it jumped suddenly to over 18,000 unconfirmed transactions.
Billionaire Peter Thiel and Jihan Wu from Bitmain invest in EOS developer
The company, which developed the EOS blockchain platform, is on its way to a new financing round. The list of possible investors include billionaires and asset managers who are well-known in the IT field.
G20 develops framework for monitoring cryptocurrency market
The financial body of the G20 released a framework and identified metrics to monitor the financial stability implications of crypto-assets markets.
Managing assets in decentralisation era: Azbit platform creating multi-functional ecosystem for investors and traders
Profitability of many cryptocurrencies over 2017 attracted to the cryptocurrency market a great number of retail investors without any previous experience in the sphere of investment or trading.
RAWG blockchain project to enable users earn money by videogames
The market of videogames is one of the fastest growing ones. According to the assessment of the Newzoo company, at the end of 2017 its volume was evaluated at $121.7 billion, far exceeding the initial forecast of $102.9 billion.
