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The essential metric for bitcoin network security reached more than 65 trillion hashes per second on Wednesday this week. (BTC )

Bitcoin is exciting investors after BTC price is up almost 30% in a month and now just $200 of a key psychological barrier. (BTC )

Ethereum Classic developers and contributors recently decided that the Atlantis hard fork will occur on block 8,772,000, estimated for September 17. (DAO , ETC , ETH )

Automotive giant Wanxiang partners with blockchain firm PlatON to handle data for new smart city in China.

The city council of Riviera Beach, Florida, has agreed to pay nearly $600,000 worth of BTC to regain access to data lost in a hacker attack. (BTC )

Facebook's newly announced cryptocurrency could shake up the industry and bring mainstream recognition to blockchain.

Most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate losses on the day as bitcoin breaks $9,300. (BTC , ETH )

Only a handful of the 1,700 layoffs recently announced by IBM affected its blockchain division, according to a report.

IOTA has partnered with digital food safety firm Primority to develop a tool to minimize the threat of potentially fatal food allergens. (MIOTA )

Two new books published under Satoshi Nakamoto's name have appeared on Amazon. (BTC )

The recently reported Firefox's zero-day flaw was used by hackers to attack Coinbase employees on June 17. (BTC )

Summary of the first reactions on Facebook's Libra.

Cryptocurrencies will not receive wide acceptance in Australia as long as the local financial system is efficiently working, RBA said.

The analyst who claimed that TradingView had a bug in its Fibonacci retracement tool has now admitted that it works perfectly fine.

Facebook has reportedly not applied for approval to operate its cryptocurrency in India with the RBI (BTC )

What if you could copy what other crypto traders are doing? A trading platform notes that, when it comes to investing, many heads are better than one.

Live streaming startup YouNow has filed a public offering with the U.S. SEC to allow users to compliantly earn tokens. (BTC )

Leader of House Financial Services Committee Requesting Halt, Hearings on Facebook's Libra.

Jerome Powell has said that he recognizes both potential benefits and risks to Facebook's recently-unveiled Libra project. (BTC )

A senior executive at the online giant says that the landscape right now means Libra is fresh and speculative.

The U.S. DoJ unveiled a complaint against an alleged bitcoin-funded investment scam, saying the perpetrator and company are charged with fraud and money launder... (BTC )

The U.S. Senate will hear views and analysis on Facebook's new cryptocurrency, Libra.

Ubisoft is exploring the possibility of integrating blockchain into its games - is this the future of gaming?

The exchange's deceased owner was transferring user funds off the exchange and using them in his own margin trading on other platforms. (BTC )

Open interest in Bitcoin futures contracts on CME hit a new all-time high of over 5,300 contracts, purportedly due to increased institutional interest. (BTC )

French Minister of the Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire intends to ask Facebook for guarantees for its forthcoming digital currency Libra.

Head of blockchain at social media giant Facebook David Marcus said that the Libra Project will distance itself from Bitcoin and will share information with aut... (BTC )

Austria's Graz to use DLT-enabled energy trading platform by Power Ledger in move toward zero-carbon energy.

Crypto analytics firm Coin Metrics partnered with Social Market Analytics to provide a social media-based feed of sentiment towards crypto. (BTC )

Most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are reporting moderate losses on the day as bitcoin descends back to $9,000. (BTC , ETH )

The research arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance claims that Facebook's Libra stablecoin could spark additional cryptocurrency volume.

Microsoft already uses Hyperledger Fabric, while the Ethereum appearance forms part of a wider outreach plan, says a senior executive. (ETH )

The U.S. CFTC has filed a complaint against an alleged $147 million bitcoin scam scheme, Control-Finance Limited. (BTC )

Popular chart analysis service TradingView contains a bug in the Fibonacci retracement technical analysis tool. (BTC )

A senior executive at the firm revealed a deal was weeks away from becoming official after over a year of preliminary work.

Digital Asset has partnered with Amazon Web Services Aurora to make its open-source smart contract language more interoperable.

Facebook has released the white paper for its stablecoin project.

Two new product implementations and a pilot scheme aim to resolve pain points the company unearthed.

Japan's Consumer Affairs Agency has reported that 2018 saw a 170% uptick in the number of consumer queries about cryptos. (BTC )

Six crypto exchanges have been hacked so far in 2019. How can cyber attacks be avoided and addressed in the future? (BTC , EOS , XRP )

OCamlPro and Starchain Capital are not acting in users' best interest, Tezos Commons executive director Shaun Belcher says.

A blockchain/AI platform for insurance claims by BlockClaim has received about $627,000 in seed funding.

Blockchain technology is now being used in a pilot program for tracking cannabis supply chains.

A universal bank in Poland is using blockchain technology to let customers verify the authenticity of their banking documents. (ETH )

Ripple will provide up to $50 million to MoneyGram has part of a new two-year partnership. (XRP )

Spanish bank Santander has lost an appeal in a Brazilian court regarding the closure of a cryptocurrency's account. (BTC )

The Zcash Foundation has partnered with Parity Technologies to release a second software client for cryptocurrency Zcash. (ETH , ZEC )

There are signs of increasing institutional interest in cryptocurrencies. Can this propel the markets to the next level? (ADA , BCH , BTC , EOS , ETH , LTC , XLM , XRP )

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced BTCB, a bitcoin-pegged token on Binance Chain. (BTC )

In the wake of CCN's Google saga, CT looks at which centralized companies have been hostile to crypto firms in the past.