ISLAMABAD – Many of the top cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin plunged in price after regulators in China announced a crackdown on cryptocurrency payments. The price crash took Bitcoin below $40,000 for the first time since January and was accompanied by other leading ...

Tesla founder Elon Musk wrote #bitcoin on his Twitter bio with no further explanation, but speculation that the world’s richest man might be a Bitcoin investor. Bitcoin surged above$38,0oo after the Elon Musk’s cryptic move and the prices soared as much as 15% in a couple of minutes, the ...

On Monday, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) said that they have arrested an engineering student who was allegedly involved in sending money to Daesh in Syria through the cryptocurrency bitcoin. Addressing a press conference, DIG CTD Omar Shahid Hamid said that they were carrying out ...

PESHAWAR – The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to legalise Bitcoin mining, set up two of its own cryptocurrency plants, and give NOCs to private entrepreneurs to establish their own mining setups. Talking to the media on Friday, Ziaullah Bangash, adviser to KP chief minister on ...

Bitcoin has once again broken its past record from November, with Coin Metrics reporting a massive 5.6 percent rally in the digital currency market. According to the live Coindesk dashboard, bitcoin has now hit a new high of $23,770, with a $2.83 billion transaction index and return-filing YTD ...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly has unanimously passed a resolution on legalizing cryptocurrencies and crypto-mining. With that, KP Assembly has become the first legislative assembly to have approved a resolution in the favor of cryptocurrencies in ...

WASHINGTON - Zoobia Shahnaz, a Pakistan born US citizen has been found involved in a Bitcoin fraud to finance Islamic State. She was living on Long Island, has pleaded guilty against charges of being involved in Bitcoin fraud to help Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Prosecutors had ...

ISLAMABAD- An Islamic scholar has declared bitcoin ‘halal’ [permissible] under Sharia Law, contradicting earlier ‘edicts’ that insisted the popular cryptocurrency is forbidden in the religion. The new statement has appeared in the publication of the study into whether bitcoin is halal or ...

NEW DELHI - One of India’s biggest cryptocurrency trading platforms has lost about 438 Bitcoins worth some Rs 19 crore ($3 million), allegedly due to a rogue employee. An official at Delhi-based Coinsecure was extracting Bitcoin to distribute to customers and he claims the funds were lost in ...

NEW DELHI: Coinsecure, an Indian cryptocurrency exchange, said nearly $3 million were stolen from its bitcoin wallet, the biggest reported so far in the country’s fledgling virtual currency market. The theft is expected to further weaken trade in cryptocurrencies, which the government has ...