After hackers stole data from the computer system of a Massachusetts school system, they offered to return the information in return for a $10,000 bitcoin...
Origin Protocol, a blockchain-based sharing economy startup, has brought a PayPal co-founder on board as a research and development engineer, CoinDesk reported. Yu Pan will...
Tagomi Systems, the startup that wants to bring its expertise in electronic trading to the bitcoin market, has gotten venture backing from Founders Fund, the...
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories include a new mark in...
Regulators in the U.S. are considering the regulation of digital tokens outside bitcoin. The Wall Street Journal reported that the inquiry is focused on the cryptocurrency Ethereum,...
Square’s stock fell almost 4 percent on Monday (April 30), after a short seller tweeted that the company’s bitcoin efforts might be overhyped, CNBC reported. “SQ-Cash...
Initial coin offerings, or ICOs, have been on the receiving end of much criticism and a growing amount of regulatory scrutiny. Now the trend may...
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis isn’t buying into the belief that because bitcoin isn’t tied to a real-world commodity, it shouldn’t have any...
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day. Today’s stories include an up-to-date analytical report...