Ohio has become the latest U.S. state to legally recognize data stored and transacted on blockchain. The news comes after lawmakers from the state introduced a bill in May that sought to treat blockchain data and smart contracts as electronic records in a bid to provide safe harbor for the emerging technology. Part of the wording from that bill (SB 300) was...

On Monday, Robinhood Financial announced that it would launch ethereum classic (ETC) on its trading platform — making it the sixth digital currency it has listed. This news comes one day before Coinbase is to add...

Professional services firm Accenture has filed a patent which seeks to enhance the speed and security of transactions on blockchains using patented hardware. Besides accelerating the software processes the technology described in the patent titled ‘Hardware Blockchain Acceleration’ will also improve the security of the applications supporting the transaction chains. Per Accenture, the need for the technology is driven by the...

Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., conducts a House Judiciary Committee mark up of the Police Act of 2017 in Rayburn Building on May 17, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Cryptocurrencies, namely bitcoin, bitcoin cash and ethereum, are...

READ LATER - DOWNLOAD THIS POST AS PDFYou’ve probably heard about CoinBase already. It’s a company based in California, considered to be one of the most important crypto exchanges in the world because of its amazing thirteen million users (that many people can’t be wrong, right?). But while it’s so well known as a coin trading site, Coinbase offers...

LTC/USD Medium-term Trend:Bearish Resistance Levels: $75, $76, $77Support Levels: $70, $69, $68 Yesterday, August 6th, the price of Litecoin was in a bearish trend which resulted in the  breaking of the range-bound zone. Later, price pulled back into the range bound zone. However, the cryptocurrency was making another attempt to retest the support level. Today, the LTC price has retested  the...