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The crypto downtrend has paused after the market climbed a little over 6% on Wednesday, primarily spurred on by Bitcoin which has gained a similar amount. Photo: iStock
Aug 15,2018, 6:43
Crypto market rebound driven largely by speculators
By Luke Thompson
At the moment Bitcoin's price is languishing around $6,500, which is down 67.5% from its high of $20,000 at the end of 2017. Photo: iStock
Aug 08,2018, 6:32
Washington Bitcoin fund ruling sees crypto markets plummet
By Luke Thompson
Made illegal in the 1930s, pump and dump schemes were prevalent again in the 1990s and were a core theme in the film Wolf of Wall Street, based on the corrupted trading life of New York broker Jordan Belfort. Photo: AFP/Bryan R. Smith
Aug 08,2018, 4:21
The crypto wolves and their multi-million ‘pump and dumps’
By Richard Cook
Starbucks has launched the Bakkt platform, a joint venture with the Intercontinental Stock Exchange (parent of the NYSE), Microsoft and others, that will enable 'consumers and institutions to buy, sell, store and spend digital assets on a seamless global network.' Photo: AFP
Aug 06,2018, 7:15
Starbucks isn’t taking Bitcoin yet, but other retailers are
By Luke Thompson
A Bitcoin mining farm. In the future such physical facilities maybe replaced by cloud-based ones like the Filecoin network, where data is stored, in encrypted form, on the spare hard drive space of network users. Photo: iStock
Aug 03,2018, 7:45
Securities or utilities? What exactly are blockchain tokens?
By Stephen McKeon
Former president Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address at Ripple's Swell conference in San Francisco in October. Photo: iStock
Aug 02,2018, 4:03
Bill Clinton to deliver keynote at Ripple conference
By Luke Thompson
Blockchain could offer patients secure personal health data accounts held online and accessible from computers and mobile devices. Photo: iStock
Jul 30,2018, 6:08
US healthcare industry embraces blockchain technologies
By Ana Santos Rutschman
Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Photo: iStock
Jul 26,2018, 5:46
Blockchain leadership for Google with new cloud platforms
By Asia Times staff
MasterCard says its new patent will speed up transaction times for crypto-currencies and provide security for the payee. Photo: iStock
Jul 19,2018, 4:03
Is MasterCard’s new patent centralizing the decentralized?
By Luke Thompson
San Francisco-based Dirt Protocol has raised $3 million in funding to build a blockchain platform that challenges fake news. Photo: iStock
Jul 17,2018, 6:08
Blockchain startup raises $3 million to combat fake news
By Luke Thompson
The American flag and the Capitol Building in Washington. US regulators are keeping the pressure on the country's crypto-currency traders. Photo: iStock.
Jul 11,2018, 7:32
US brokerages must declare all crypto-related activities
By Asia Times staff
While 36% of young Americans said they had to rely on earnings from a second job to make a property purchase down payment, 10% said they had instead sold off their crypto assets. Photo: iStock
Jul 05,2018, 8:11
Of US millennials, 10% selling crypto to buy first homes
By Asia Times staff
Avinash Godbole
Jun 30,2018, 4:30
Beijing’s evolving foreign policy in the Xi era
By Avinash Godbole
A US Border patrol agent opens a gate on the fence along the Mexico border. Photo: Reuters/Tomas Bravo
Jun 08,2018, 5:51
ICOs causing ‘guys with bags of cash to head for the border’
By Asia Times staff
The US Department of Justice logo. Photo: US Department of Justice
May 29,2018, 7:33
Department of Justice criminal probe sees Bitcoin slide more
By Asia Times staff
Prakash Katoch
May 17,2018, 3:51
Korean peace move is China’s strategic victory 
By Prakash Katoch
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attend a banquet on the Peace House at the truce village of Panmunjom. Photo: Press Pool/via Reuters
Apr 30,2018, 5:02
Denuclearization premiums and discounts
By William Pesek
The US and Pakistani flags. Photo: iStock
Apr 26,2018, 5:44
US sanctions hit Pakistan’s plan to join Nuclear Suppliers Group
By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
Server racks with telecommunication equipment in a server room. Photo: iStock
Apr 04,2018, 7:35
Blockchain benefits for healthcare data storage
By Asia Times staff
Youngsters are having trouble telling what is real and what is not. Photo: iStock
Apr 04,2018, 5:43
Students are the new target audience for fake news
By Kanchan Srivastava
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