cryptocurrency

American socialite, Kim Kardashian has found herself in waterloo with the police over an Instagram post promoting a cryptocurrency asset that has been blasted by critics as a "pump and dump" scheme. The Securities and…

Forbes, 104-year-old magazine and digital publisher, has received a $200 million strategic investment from Binance, world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The funds from the 5-year-old company will help Forbes execute on its plan to…

China's central bank on Friday ruled that all financial transactions involving crypto currencies are illegal, the latest in a series of regulatory measures to crack down on crypto trading. “Virtual currency-related business activities…

El Salvador have on Tuesday become the first country to adopt bitcoin as a national currency, kicking off a radical monetary experiment that could pose risks to the fragile economy. President Nayib Bukele announced late Monday that his…

PayPal has on Monday announced that it will this week begin to allow users in Britain to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency through the online payment platform for the first time. The expansion into the hot digital money trend follows…

Sokoto zonal office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested three suspects over their alleged involvement in a N3.5 billion online investment fraudulent scheme. Bawa Kaltungo, EFCC head in Sokoto state, disclosed…

El Salvador led by President Nayib Bukele has on Wednesday become the first country in the world to formally adopt cryptocurrency - Bitcoin - as a legal tender. Lawmakers in the Central American country's Congress today voted by a…

United States has recovered most of $4.4m (£3.1m) ransom paid to a cyber-criminal gang responsible for taking Colonial Pipeline offline last month. DarkSide - which US authorities said operates from eastern Europe and possibly Russia -…

Former US President, Donald Trump has expressed that he sees Bitcoin as a “scam” affecting the value of United States dollar. Trump made this known on Monday while he was being interviewed by Fox Business News, saying; Bitcoin, it just…

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk has late Tuesday announced that it is now possible to buy Tesla vehicles in the United States with bitcoin. The announcement comes less than a month after the automaker revealed that it had bought $1.5 billion worth…

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has called for the regulation of cryptocurrency in Nigeria, as against the exclusion of the digital currency from the financial ecosystem in the country. He said this at the one-day special summit of the…

Electric car manufacturer, Tesla has disclosed that it has acquired $1.5 billion in bitcoin cryptocurrency, adding it could in the near future accept the coin as payment for its luxury cars. Tesla filed its annual financial report with…

Former Nigeria presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba has stated that investing in cow business is more lucrative than any form of cryptocurrency business. Adamu said this in reaction to the Central Bank of Nigeria’s directive to banks to…

Former Vice-President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has kicked against the shut down of cryptocurrency transactions by the Central Bank of Nigeria. In a statement released in the early hours of Saturday, Atiku opined that the move comes at…