Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has recently advised workers to invest in gold and the country’s oil-backed cryptocurrency Petro. He made the call this week, during an announcement.

Roy Niederhoffer, President of New York-based R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management, Inc. has placed his $15.9 million mansion up for sale stating that he will accept cash or its equivalent in Bitcoin.

A 24-year-old man has been killed in Norway after conducting an in-person peer-to-peer bitcoin trade for a large cash sum. Reports indicate the deceased’s body was discovered in his apartment in the Majorstuen neighborhood of Oslo.  

The United States Marshals Service has issued a Notice for Sale for an online auction of $4.3 million worth of bitcoin planned for November 5, 2018

The investigation into a huge Indian multi-level marketing scheme which began a year ago has come to an abrupt end as the victims of the theft have failed to come forward.

Tencent, Huawei, WeBank and Shenzhen Securities Communication have come together to launch BCOS, a revolutionary blockchain solution billed to be the next “Ethereum killer”.

Cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX has announced its intention to launch its own Bitcoin software client to compete with the industry standard Bitcoin Core.

Epoch Partners Limited, a hedge fund based in the Cayman Islands has successfully launched the world’s first retail initial public offering (IPO) of a cryptocurrency and digital assets related hedge fund.

The Bank of Spain has called for a thorough investigation into International payments carried out using blockchain technology, as it believes that certain elements of the Blockchain system, though erratic, can prove useful in making future international transactions efficient, fast and transparent.

Award-winning adult live streaming site, LiveJasmin has announced a collaboration with PumaPay, developers of billing infrastructure, PullPayment Protocol. In addition to adopting it for its websites, it will also be deployed for payments to its models, affiliates and studios.

Block.one President Rob Jesudason has criticized existing KYC and AML measures for failing to prevent crime and placing an unnecessary burdens on users.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has declared its intention to define its policy on cryptocurrencies before the end of the year.

Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes has revealed that cybercriminals are modifying their tactics in favour of targeting businesses over individuals, which comes alongside a 26 percent fall in recorded cryptojacking incidents in the third quarter of 2018.

A Twitter user has claimed that he successfully carried out a bitcoin transaction over the weekend without mobile network or internet connection

While universities are known for being hotbeds of innovation and research, many American colleges are still struggling to understand cryptocurrency. Amidst the uncertainty, a few colleges like Yale have distinguished themselves in the university crypto finance space.

Crypto analyst Tim Enneking has stated that correlation between crypto markets and stock markets on a sustained, long-term basis would substantially reduce the desirability of crypto to investors. Data by Blockforce Capital shows that significant correlation does not exist, but this could change.

Data from Coin Dance indicates that Bitcoin trading volumes on the peer-to-peer platform LocalBitcoins in the month of October 2018 have reached record highs in Argentina, Egypt, and Venezuela for broadly similar but contextually different reasons.

Coin Shares Chief Strategy Officer Meltem Demirors has been called out for allegedly contributing to bubble conditions in crypto markets by denying that there was a price bubble. advocating for more investments and ignoring advice to the contrary.

According to a report by Russian media outlet Vedomosti, encrypted instant messaging service Telegram is set release a test version of its blockchain-based TON platform this autumn. Investors have confirmed to Russia media confirmed that a circular containing this information that was sent to participants in TON’s Initial Coin Offering in September was indeed authentic.

Blockchain Trust Company, Paxos has issued about $50 million worth of its dollar-pegged stablecoin Paxos Standard Token. This was revealed yesterday in a tweet by Dorothy Jean Chang, Paxos vice president of marketing and communications. The news provides the first major indication regarding the scale of adoption experienced by the Ethereum-based stablecoin since it received regulatory approval from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) in September.