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Blockchain technology has been utilized in saving the lives of people affected by the Covid-19 pandemic for a long time. Now, the distributed ledger technology (DLT) is to be exploited to expedite disaster relief to affected regions if 10 designated volcanoes explode.

Cryptocurrency scammers use numerous leverages to trick people into handing over their money. The basic desire for love and money are the most widespread of them. At least, that is what the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) thinks. These desires have already cost the citizens about $2 million in losses.

The last 12 months have seen a surge of cryptocurrency usage that shadows the last crypto rush of 2017. Mainstream firms are finally starting to tap into the crypto market and trading is the highest ever witnessed, putting exchanges under stress as they struggle with the load.

China’s history on cryptocurrency is quite a controversial one. Most of the crypto users that became millionaires after 2017’s crypto-bubble were residing in China. The country’s mining pools dominated over 60% of the Bitcoin overall hashrate. Nevertheless, regulators are making every effort to stop the growth of the sector.

Institutional investors have been redundant to make risky investments like cryptocurrency. But following the widespread embracement and adoption of digital investments including Bitcoin (BTC), investors have significantly developed an interest in this nascent kind of assets.

The wave of cryptocurrency adoption in Africa seems to be gaining much traction. So far there are more than 725 million smartphone subscribers in Africa, as per the data by GSM Association, and this means more people in the continent have easy access to cryptocurrency if they so wish or if they develop interest in it.

A wave of screaming headlines marked a promising start of the new year as blockchain-based services' ongoing popularity made a swing and started to rise again.

Most cryptocurrencies have been bullish in this year, and are expected to do even better in 2021.The year 2020 is ending on a good note on the side of the cryptocurrency industry. The year has seen governments begging citizens to use digital payment solutions instead of fiat money.

The US District Court in Seattle sentenced a Ukrainian man for stealing around $10 million in cryptocurrency while working as an engineer at Microsoft.