Orbiting in our planet’s exosphere, Blockstream's satellites broadcast the Bitcoin blockchain in North and South America, Europe, Africa — and now Asia Pacific.
A suit spearheaded by UnitedCorp is taking legal aim at Bitmain and its cofounder Jihan Wu; Bitcoin.com and its CEO, Roger Ver; Kraken and its CEO, Jesse Powell; and others.
As the market continues to tumble (and mining profits have dwindled), Bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped by its largest percentile in seven years — the second largest downward correction in the cryptocurrency’s lifetime.
Many ICOs have attempted to evade the SEC’s scrutiny by self-labeling their products as utility tokens. So far, the SEC doesn't seem to be buying the distinction.
For the first time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has traced illicit bitcoin activity to the public addresses of two sanctioned individuals.