Belfrics sees Bahrain as a gateway to the $50bln digital payment market in the Mena region MANAMA - Malaysia-based Belfrics Global is gearing up to open and operate a cryptocurrency exchange in Bahrain, which will be a first for the Mena region. This follows the cryptocurrency...

Top of the heap is Ripple which posted a jaw-dropping 36,000 percent rise in 2017 Bitcoin may be the most famous cryptocurrency but, despite a dizzying rise, it's not the most lucrative one and far from alone in a universe that counts 1,400 rivals, and counting. Dozens of crypto...

UAE and Saudi Arabia are joining forces to explore the possibility of creating a digital currency that will allow for cross border transactions Blockchain is neither a company nor an application but is a new technology that will complement the Internet, according to Reham Baseddiq,...

Last week, the UAE’s central bank announced it was working on a joint cryptocurrency, based on blockchain, with its counterpart in Saudi Arabia Since beginning its dramatic rise in value over a year ago, many commentators have pronounced bitcoin dead, saying instead that the true value...

As reports to CCN, the economist and the Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz during the television interview of Bloomberg has said that the bitcoin has to be outlawed. Next day other Nobel Prize laureate Robert J. Schiller has shared the opinion on bitcoin, having told that that will fail,...

The author is Daniel Newman, the CEO of Broadsuite Media Group, the chief analyst of Futurum and the author of Futureproof. My prediction: time when seems that we won't survive without blockchain will come. For now, the technology which once was less known force standing behind...

The problem in a code of an ethereum-purse Parity led to the fact that precisely an unknown at the moment the quantity of means of users on the ethereum network was "frozen". On the available data, the amount in "air" exceeds $100 million at the rate at the time of the publication....

The head of the central bank of South Korea has excluded classification of bitcoin as currencies, claiming that cryptocurrencies are a form of goods. According to Seoul-Yonhap News, on Monday the head of Bank of Korea Li Ju-yol when he was asked whether it is possible to accept digital...

Researchers on safety have found three roguish applications in Google Play shop of Poloniex cryptocurrencies which are, presumably, connected with the exchange. Article posted on the news website on information security of ESET "We Live Security" in detail says about how two applications...

While average consumers can be more than are happy operating in dollars and storing means in gold, one of founders of Apple Steve Wozniak, the mathematician by training, considers that the bitcoin surpasses them both as the intermediary, and as means of preservation of value — for one important...