Bitcoin has fallen beneath the $7,000 psychological price range as global markets took a breather Saturday amid the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S and China. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value dropped beneath its temporary supports near the $7,000

Oman Oil and Orpic Group and HSBC Bank Oman SAOG have conducted the first trade finance transaction on the blockchain in the country using R3’s Corda platform. As news publication the Oman Observer reported on Nov. 23, Oman Oil and Orpic Group — one

JPMorgan thinks a blockchain can help it keep track of the automobile inventory it finances for car dealers – and prevent them from pledging the same cars for different loans. The bank’s wholesale car financing arm has filed a patent application describing a

Binance Holdings Ltd., operator of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said it doesn’t have any “fixed offices in Shanghai or China” amid rumors that police raided the facilities in the nation’s biggest city. “Any reports of a police raid

Bitcoin (BTC) could spend months trading at $5,500 before it recovers, one of the best-known analysts in the industry has warned. In a tweet on Nov. 21, Peter Brandt revealed his target for Bitcoin price was a floor of $5,500. Read more on

Zero-fee trading first came to exchanged-traded funds and then to online stock and option transactions. Now the strategy is spreading into the cryptocurrency sphere. Seen as the most profitable sector of digital-asset world, trading platforms are feeling the pressure as industry heavyweights

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state's de facto central bank, may soon allow cryptocurrency-based derivatives to be traded on regulated platforms. The MAS published a consultation paper on Wednesday, seeking to green-light what it calls "payment token derivatives" for listing and

Dan Schulman, CEO of payment processor PayPal, revealed during an interview that he does indeed own Bitcoin (BTC). On Nov. 20, Fortune reported that PayPal CEO Dan Schulman stopped by its offices where he discussed a variety of topics, including the reason for

Cryptocurrencies have started to make their presence felt in finance. As the race for an e-currency continues, so does Bitcoin’s dominance. The cryptocurrency market experienced its highest boom at the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018. It lost some

Bloomberg Law reported on Nov. 15 that investigators at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are focusing on so-called BTMs and crypto kiosks and their potential to facilitate illicit activity such as tax evasion or money laundering. John Fort, the IRS' criminal investigation chief,