CryptoCurrency News: Electrum Developers Apply Fix After Apple Update Bricks Bitcoin Wallets

Apple's most recent Mac update is causing major problems for one of Bitcoin’s oldest wallets.

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CryptoCurrency News: Duality Technologies Launches Platform for Analyzing Big Data While Keeping It Private

The platform is a step forward in practical uses for Homomorphic Encryption, letting multiple actors conduct analysis while keeping the data encrypted.

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CryptoCurrency News: Mintbase Raises $1M Seed Round to Bring NFTs to NEAR Protocol

The new funding allows Mintbase to hire developers and designers to prepare for a testnet launch on NEAR before year's end.

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CryptoCurrency News: Tor Developers Pursuing ‘Anonymous Tokens’ to Stop Hacks and DoS Attacks

Tokens could be included in a users traffic request, which would allow websites accessible through the Tor network to “intelligently prioritize which requests it answers.”

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin’s Rally Could Be Caused by a Supply Crunch in China

Chinese miners are struggling to sell their crypto in ways that would quickly get them much-needed cash in the face of a government crackdown on local exchanges.

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CryptoCurrency News: OKEx Token Rallies on Rumors Founder Xu Released From Custody

The token has rallied nearly 13% Wednesday.

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CryptoCurrency News: Thai SEC Revises Net Capital Rules in Bid to Open Liquidity, Support Digital Asset Businesses: Report

The revised requirements are aimed at adding liquidity to the Thai market, while also allowing digital asset businesses to hold part of their required capital in cryptocurrencies.

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CryptoCurrency News: The Dark Future Where Payments Are Politicized and Bitcoin Wins

If the payments system ever becomes seriously politicized, Bitcoin's apolitical nature could become more appealing. But that's not a scenario worth looking forward to.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Latest Billionaire Bull, Zcash’s Upgrade, Grayscale’s $10B Breakthrough

A metric that has predicted previous bitcoin market tops indicates this rally has just begun.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: As Bitcoin Shoots Past $18K, There’s Comfort in the Crowded Trade

"Long bitcoin" is one of the most crowded trades in markets, a new survey suggests. But signs indicate many investors are just now getting in. 

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CryptoCurrency News: CryptoGenies? Digital Avatars Are Coming to Dapper’s Flow Blockchain

“Dapper Labs was a braindead fit for us to be able to further educate our young users,” Genies founder Akash Nigam said.

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CryptoCurrency News: FATF Needs Entirely New Approach to Regulating Crypto, Says V20 Summit

Industry players at the Virtual Asset Service Providers Summit urged regulators to rethink their approach in light of DeFi and DEXs.

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CryptoCurrency News: What the History of Airlines Tells Us About Blockchain Commerce

The ability to represent all industrial capacity as tokens on a blockchain will have huge implications for resource use, says our columnist.

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CryptoCurrency News: ‘Not My Cup of Tea’: Jamie Dimon Is Still Not a Bitcoin Fan

The JPMorgan Chase CEO said it's only a matter of time before the government moves to regulate bitcoin.

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CryptoCurrency News: Dutch Crypto Exchange Adds Extra Verification Measures Citing ‘Disproportionate’ Central Bank Requirements

The exchange said it must now ask users for extra information such as the purpose of bitcoin purchases.

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CryptoCurrency News: Ethereum Classic Gets DeFi Treatment With Wrapped ETC

Ethereum Classic wants to play in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space of the blockchain it contentiously forked from in 2016.

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CryptoCurrency News: Digital Asset Firm Fireblocks Raises $30M to Gird for ‘Influx in Customer Demand’

Fireblocks plans to maintain its standing as “the biggest player in crypto-native markets” but also wants to go after institutional players.

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CryptoCurrency News: OKEx Mining Pool Flatlines After 99.5% Hash Power Drop as Withdrawal Suspensions Spook Clients

The pool's hash power has dropped from 5,000 to barely 20 PH/s.

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CryptoCurrency News: Vietnam’s Ministry of Education Adopts Blockchain Record-Keeping

The Vietnamese government has partnered with Singapore-based blockchain platform TomoChain to archive student records on a public blockchain.

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CryptoCurrency News: Zcash Undergoes First Halving as Major Upgrade Drops ‘Founders Fund’

Alongside the halving, Zcash has rolled out its Canopy upgrade that replaces the Founder's Fund with built-in funding for development.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Indicator Suggests Bull Market Is Still in Early Phase

The Mayer Multiple indicator suggests the bull market is still far from peaking, even as bitcoin closes in on its all-time high.

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto Exchange Liquid Says User Data Possibly Exposed in Security Breach

The exchange said customer funds are safe.

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CryptoCurrency News: Alleged Promoter of BitConnect Crypto Scam Charged in Australia

The accused faces a lengthy prison sentence if convicted.

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CryptoCurrency News: Mexico’s Second Richest Man Reveals 10% of His Liquid Assets Are in Bitcoin

Billionaire founder of Grupo Salinas, Ricardo Salinas Pliego said: "Bitcoin protects the citizen from government expropriation."

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