Three to four billion pounds of criminal money in Europe is being laundered through cryptocurrencies, according to Europol.
After facing weeks of mounting negative headlines that had wiped out billions in value, cryptocurrencies won a reprieve of sorts.
The move will allow law enforcers to monitor a wider range of crime-related transactions.
Morgan Stanley analyst James Faucette and his team sent a research note to clients a few days ago suggesting that the real value of bitcoin might be... $0, according to Business Insider.
Bitcoin sank as much as 21 percent on Friday, extending its loss from its intraday high this month toward 40 percent, as the crypto-world was swamped by a wave of selling, according to Bloomberg.
The twin brothers who sued Mark Zuckerberg claiming he stole the idea for Facebook are worth more than $1bn after capitalizing on the astonishing rise in Bitcoin, according to The Telegraph.
Russia's telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked 13 websites that specialize in trading crypto-currencies or distributing information about them, RNS was told in the press service of the agency.
Ukraine’s 1+1 Media Group has detected and halted an unauthorized breach of its websites, aimed at concealed hidden mining of Monero cryptocurrency, supposedly in the interests of an international startup Newzmate.
The status of cryptocurrency in Ukraine has not been defined by law, while this does not mean that it is prohibited, Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk wrote on Facebook, following the Ukrainian delegation's annual meetings at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, DC.
Lawmakers from the parliamentary factions People's Front and Petro Poroshenko Bloc have registered a bill in the Verkhovna Rada to legalize all cryptocurrency transactions in Ukraine.
Ukrainian lawmakers previously said that the legal status of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could be determined by last week. However, a unified position has not been reached among regulators. Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Oleh Churii, explained why lawmakers cannot reach consensus on cryptocurrency, reads a report by Bitcoin.com
The first deal to purchase real estate with the use of crypto currency has been officially concluded in Ukraine, according to the technology news portal Ain.ua.
Ukraine's first six cryptomats that sell Bitcoins for cash hryvnias have been installed in Kyiv, according to KUNA Bitcoin Agency.
Bitcoin soared past $4,000 for the first time on growing optimism faster transaction times will hasten the spread of the cryptocurrency, according to Bloomberg.
Kyiv police along with the SBU security service operatives on Thursday discovered 200 pieces of computer equipment set up for the generation (mining) of the Bitcoin crypto currency.
Kuna Cryptocurrency Exchange and Kuna Bitcoin Agency founder Michael Chobanian has announced that there are 150 Bitcoin automated teller machines (BTM) which are scheduled to be installed in Ukraine in 2017, according to the Cointelegraph Bitcoin & Ethereum news portal.