YouTube and Ripple have agreed “to work together” after Ripple sued the video company last April for allegedly failing to remove XRP scams from its platform, according to a tweet from Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. The scams impersonated Ripple representatives and offered XRP giveaways in...
Bithumb has banned users from nations without proper anti-money laundering (AML) rules, The Korea Herald reported Tuesday (March 9). The ban extends to 21 countries, which are all on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) watchlist for not having AML rules in place. Existing users’...
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs). They’re still exciting people so much that they’ll pay millions of dollars for something that, quite simply, can be enjoyed or experienced for free. It’s the latest bit of evidence that we’re in what might be thought of, charitably, as rarefied territory....
Atari, looking to cash in on the popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), plans to open a casino in the coming months, according to a report from The Business Times. The casino was developed in a partnership with the Decentral Games on the Ethereum blockchain, and...
According to federal prosecutors, antivirus software founder John McAfee and an associate orchestrated fraud schemes to net millions in cryptocurrency, CNBC writes. The 75-year-old McAfee and his “cryptocurrency team” advisor, 40-year-old Jimmy Watson, reportedly did the “age old pump and dump” scheme, which consisted of...
Merchants can now accept cryptocurrency payments through Bitfinex Pay, a new contactless and borderless payment technology launched by Bitfinex on Thursday (March 4). With Bitfinex Pay, online shoppers can pay via Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether, according to a company blog post. The widget is integrated...
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is reviewing certain transactions made over Coinbase to investigate whether people in countries or territories targeted by U.S. sanctions have been using the service. Coinbase, which filed to go public last week, said in its...
It’s never easy to call the top of, well, anything in any market. Name it: art, baseball cards, certainly not stocks, bonds or housing. But then again, things are looking a bit lofty for bitcoin, at least insofar as sentiment is concerned, possibly signaling some...
Crypto users can now buy dogecoin with cash at 1,800 CoinFlip ATMs across the U.S., according to CoinDesk, citing a tweet from CoinFlip. The dog meme-themed digital coin was founded in 2013 reportedly “as a joke,” PYMNTS reported, and saw its price surge earlier this...