Tag Archives: Cryptocurrency

Beneath the surface of the internet exists a largely hidden world – the dark web. Find out what the dark web is and what goes on there in this short …

Bitcoin is the world’s first and largest cryptocurrency and is becoming more and more popular. To generate Bitcoins, a “mining” process takes place in which computers perform millions of calculations …

Denmark is planning to use a cryptocurrency to provide humanitarian assistance, the first such instance of a donor state using blockchain technology for humanitarian efforts. To this end, a report …

According to the new ‘Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain: Europe and Central Asia Economic Update’ World Bank report, Georgia experienced a 5.0% growth in digital technology in 2017 and is projected to …

The Berlin-based peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Bitbond will soon allow its customers to receive loans in bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies around the world. This will help the company bypass the …

Payment startups have seen considerable momentum in recent years and are on track for USD 3.8 billion in funding this year. From point-of-sale solutions to money transfers and mobile payments, …

London is set to host FinTech World Forum 2018, which will take place May 30-31, 2018. The event will feature 25 speaker and more than 300 delegates, speaking on a …

The Armenian government has not approved amendments to the ‘Law on the Development of Digital Technologies’ or the ‘Law on State Registration of Legal Entities, Separated Subdivisions, Enterprises of Legal …

The government of the United Kingdom (UK) has unveiled its first FinTech sector strategy. A cryptoassets task force (consisting of Her Majesty’s Treasury, the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial …

Christian Visti Larsen (CEO at NewBanking ApS), Anastasia Dokuchaeva (head of partnerships at ClauseMatch) and Nathan Snyder (a partner at Brickendon) outlined their top trends for RegTech in 2018: Resolving …

The American startup Airfox represents a new opportunity in banking, especially for those without bank accounts in emerging markets. The service allows users to make purchases and transfer money while …

FinNext 2018 will be held on February 15, 2018 at the Digital October conference center in Moscow. The event will bring together more than 600 participants and will feature 50 …

British company Revolut is working to ensure that its customer can buy and store cryptocurrencies in their accounts. The company was initially created to allow customers to easily exchange traditional …

Created in 2009, Bitcoin is a virtual currency that uses Blockchain technology for secure payments and storing money electronically, without requiring a bank or a person’s name. Because there is …

Bitcoin has come a long way since its creation almost eight years ago; however, there is still a long way to go before the digital currency becomes a widely used …

With cryptocurrencies increasing in popularity throughout the world, Kyrgyzstan has also started to think about how it will interact with them, both from an official (government-level) sense as well as …

The Central Bank of Uzbekistan (CBU) has released a special statement calling virtual money an instrument for financing terrorism. The special statement also declared that there was no plan for …

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, believes that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do not pose a threat to central banks and traditional currencies. Moreover, she has …

Digital currency is gaining in popularity in Georgia, and the country even hosts two facilities of the world’s largest bitcoin-mining company. There are also an increasing number Georgian entrepreneurs mining …

Kazakhstan may become the first of all Common Economic Space countries to introduce its own cryptocurrency, which will likely become a digital analogue of the Kazakhstani tenge (KZT). It is …