An employee at Qiwi reportedly mined roughly 500,000 bitcoins in 2011 by hijacking the company's payment terminals, CEO Sergey Solonin said Wednesday.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is "falling behind" in understanding blockchain technology, chairman Christopher Giancarlo said.
Cryptocurrency security startup BitGo says it is adding privacy coin zcash to its supported crypto assets.
Singapore Airlines has officially launched its blockchain-based loyalty program for frequent customers.
Crypto-lending firm BlockFi raised $52.5 million in a fundraising round led by Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital.
The SEC has delayed a decision on whether to approve five bitcoin-related ETFs, public documents reveal.
The Bank of England confirmed it is going to update its Real-Time Gross Settlement system to potentially interact with blockchain-based forms.
Jon Montroll, who ran the now-defunct bitcoin investment platform BitFunder, has pled guilty to securities fraud and obstruction of justice charges.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the SEC and CFTC to provide clear guidance on initial coin offerings to encourage more token sales to launch.
Google Cloud is teaming up with distributed ledger startup Digital Asset to provide development tools for blockchain apps.
Mastercard suffered an outage last week that led to a hold-up for some transactions – and crypto supporters on social media quickly pounced.
A state-backed financial asset exchange in China has proposed a way of building a secure blockchain-based system for online bidding.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone is looking to invent a new contract agreements system based on blockchain technology.
A blockchain startup has raised $8 million in a seed funding round with a mission to develop a protocol to serve the unbanked.
Barclays Bank proposed using blockchain to make various banking processes more efficient in a pair of patent applications.