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Docademic, the healthcare company that lets anyone talk to a doctor or psychologist through their mobile device and uses a proprietary token for its own healthcare payment system, has expanded its resources by partnering with eye care company Devlyn.

North Korea's infamous hacking group, dubbed Lazarus, has managed to steal over half a billion dollars in cryptocurrencies, a report indicates.

Singapore-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange Huobi announced the creation of what it calls a "Stablecoin solution" in a blog post Friday, Oct. 19.

The sia blockchain network has released the formal code for an imminent hard fork that will block miners using hardware produced by Bitmain and other major manufacturers.

The president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro called on workers to save in gold and state-run cryptocurrency Petro during a salary shake-up he announced Thursday, October 18, local news portal Noticiero Digital reports.

Bitcoin has dropped out of the tight trading range seen recently, paralleling losses in the U.S. stock markets.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, one of two major providers of Bitcoin Futures in the U.S., revealed trade volumes increased 41 percent in Q3 2018 with interest rates up by 19 percent.

Stablecoin Tether should create more "Transparency" about its operations, cryptocurrency investor and entrepreneur Michael Novogratz told Bloomberg Oct. 18.

Huobi, the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, has just launched a solution that enables users to switch between different types of fiat-pegged cryptocurrencies, or stablecoins, in event of market fluctuations.

Chip-making giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has predicted weak demand for processors from cryptocurrency miners for the fourth quarter.

Pegging is commonly associated with the world of foreign exchange, where the currency of one country is fixed or "Pegged" to that of a country with a more stable economy.

On Oct. 16, in a bid to draw investors by providing a proven source of conflict-free minerals, Rwanda mining authorities announced a blockchain network to track the mineral tantalum - which is used in manufacturing most electronics such as mobile phones.

Bitcoin can be bought or mined, can be sent in various fast ways, small fees paid and recipients get bitcoin and it can be sold in tens of minutes, sometimes even faster.

Journalism startup Civil is pulling the plug on its much-hyped Initial Coin Offering after it met only 13 percent of its fundraising target.

A New York federal court has ordered cryptocurrency hedge fund Gelfman Blueprint, Inc. and its CEO Nicholas Gelfman to pay over $2.5 million for operating a fraudulent Ponzi scheme, according to an official announcement published Oct. 18.

The government of Bermuda has awarded the first certification for an Initial Coin Offering under the island nation's new regulatory regime for crypto and blockchain business, the country's only daily newspaper, the Royal Gazette reports Oct. 18.

A recent study by recruiting site Glassdoor published Oct. 18 found that crypto and blockchain-related job opportunities significantly increased in the U.S. this year, despite the slump in cryptocurrency prices.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is partnering with Ripple Labs Inc. and digital payments firm Coil to implement the Interledger Protocol, the Foundation's Deputy Director and Principal Technologist Miller Abel tweeted Oct. 17.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has launched the agency's Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology, according to an official announcement published Oct. 18.

Samsung's production wing, Samsung Foundry, has launched a new production process of its 7-nanometer Low Power Plus process node, which could reduce its energy consumption by up to 50 percent, according to an official press release Oct. 18.

On October 12, Finance Magnates reported that payment giants Mastercard and VISA will both soon group cryptocurrency and Initial Coin Offering jurisdictions in a new "High risk" category.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has won a legal battle against a New York resident and his company for running a Ponzi scheme centered around bitcoin.

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by adjusted volume, is actively looking to list more stablecoins in addition to the three it already supports, which include the recently beleaguered tether.

Ripple's head of information security is leaving the company.

Just days after blowing the lid off their new institutionally oriented cryptocurrency outfit, and Fidelity Investments has already bagged one of blockchain's household names as its first client.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is launching a new division with the goal of making it simpler for fintech startups - including those launching initial coin offerings - to navigate the legal implications of their products.

The head of Russia's central bank, Elvira Nabiullina, believes that "Crypto fever" is beginning to diminish, major Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports Thursday, Oct. 18.

U.K.-based multinational security services company G4S has developed a new service for protecting cryptocurrency assets, the firm announced in an official press release Thursday, Oct. 18.

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is making a recently developed automated security scaling tool available to the public.

U.S. banking giant Goldman Sachs and its former partner Mike Novogratz, now CEO of crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital, have recently invested in U.S. crypto custody service BitGo, Bloomberg reports Wednesday, Oct. 18.