The Marshall Islands will soon circulate physical banknotes representing the world’s first decentralized national digital currency. This is happening under an agreement with Tangem, a Swiss maker of blockchain-enabled smart card wallets for cry...

Barclays, the UK’s biggest bank, has applied for three U.S. patents that collectively outline a system that uses blockchain technology to combine the pseudonymity of cryptocurrency with the legacy financial system and its KYC/AML regime. The L...

On September 21, according to local publication G1, Brazil’s Civil Police took down a pyramid scheme based on a fake digital currency dubbed Kriptacoin. In Goiâna and Distrito Federal, 11 suspects were arrested for commercializing the false cur...

The Indian state of Karnataka is in the process of putting together a policy that focuses on digital currencies such as bitcoin. Located adjacent to the Arabian Sea, Karnataka capital is Bengaluru, formerly Bangalore and is known as a high-t...

According to a recently published congressional record, Texas Congressman Roger Williams recently called for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations to be applied to digital currencies in order to help deter those w...