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Thai citizen Prinya Jaravijit, who allegedly defrauded a Finnish investor of $24 Million worth of Bitcoin (BTC), has recently been detained in Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, the Bangkok Post reports Friday, Oct. 12. According

Bitcoin prices reached $9,786 Friday, May 4, as momentum continues to build for a challenge to resistance around $10,000. Data from Cointelegraph’s price index and market visualization tool Coin360 revealed two attempts to retake

The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank have jointly launched a private blockchain and a so-dubbed quasi-cryptocurrency, the Financial Times (FT) reports on April 12. According to the newspaper, the

Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every

Anyone who says crypto doesn’t have a real use case hasn’t been talking to sex workers. Shut out of more mainstream payment methods, they’ve been among the first users of cryptocurrency, creating a symbiotic

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Payment platform Square is hiring cryptocurrency engineers and is offering to pay them in digital currency. This content was originally published here.

Dubbed M1, Electroneum’s new smartphone is priced at $80 and enables crypto mining, even in offline mode. This content was originally published here.

The world’s biggest social media company appears dead-set on launching its own cryptocurrency. Facebook has yet to announce plans publicly but media reports on its crypto ambitions have emerged over the past six months, painting

A bear market might not seem like the ideal time to be launching a crypto investment vehicle. But that’s not how blockchain pioneer David Johnston sees it – quite the opposite. Revealed exclusively to

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As the tax deadline draws closer, crypto investors will need to review their losses and gains related to their Bitcoin and holdings, and determine if they are required to report them on their taxes.

Major money transmission network MoneyGram has entered into a strategic partnership with blockchain-based payments firm Ripple, according to a press release on June 17. As part of the two-year agreement, the two firms will

The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the views of Cointelegraph.com. The way I see it, investors in 2017 — and specifically in Q4 — wanted to buy

Mobile phone manufacturer HTC wants to let its smartphone customers plug into the bitcoin blockchain. Speaking on Saturday at the Magical Crypto Conference in New York, HTC’s Phil Chen revealed a new low-cost version

Adena Friedman, president and CEO of Nasdaq Inc., says that cryptocurrency “deserves an opportunity to find a sustainable future in our economy,” in a post on LinkedIn, published Jan. 20. Writing ahead of her

Are people searching more for news about bitcoin or North Korea? According to recently released data from Google, bitcoin may be on top. As detailed in the search giant’s “Year in Search 2017,” an overview of

The president of Western Union Global Money Transfer has claimed the company is “ready to adopt any kind of currency,” potentially including cryptocurrencies, in an interview with Reuters Plus, Dec. 17. Odilon Almeida stated

Ledger has gone mobile. The crypto wallet company revealed its new, Bluetooth-enabled Nano X device Sunday at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The added Bluetooth means that the Nano X

Ohio has become the first U.S. state to allow taxes to be paid in bitcoin. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, starting this week, companies in the state will