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Former Federal Reserve Bank governor Kevin Warsh thinks that the creation of a 'FedCoin' in order to "Bring legal activities into a digital coin" deserves serious consideration, The New York Times reported May 4.

American online art auctioneer Paddle8 and The Native, a Swiss tech company, are launching a blockchain-based art authentication service, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported May 4.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational audit and consultancy firm, has acquired a minority stake ‎in Chinese startup VeChain, according to a press release May 4.

It's 2018 and Bitcoin is a household name - savvy investors and newcomers alike have come to accept the new cryptocurrency as something that is widely prevalent and here to stay.

Norwegian cryptocurrency exchange Bitmynt AS has lost its case against Scandinavian financial services giant Nordea, local news E24 reports May 4.

It's safe to say ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin's joke during the first day of EDCON, an ethereum developer conference now taking place in Toronto, had some truth to it, both for himself and the developers who took the stage with him to discuss one of the $76 billion blockchain's toughest challenges: scaling.

An increasing number of countries are looking at the cryptocurrency space, with three national governments launching efforts to regulate and examine projects in the last two weeks.

UNICEF Australia is helping to pioneer a new advertising and donation revenue stream by allowing users to donate their computational power and mine cryptocurrency through their browsers.

UBS chairman Axel Weber has stated that Switzerland's largest bank will not offer its customers trading in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, reported Cointelegraph auf Deutsch May 3.

Tangem, a start-up operating from Switzerland and Singapore, has launched a pilot sale of physical notes of Bitcoin, according to a press release published May 3.

An investor who claims they lost money buying and selling the cryptocurrency XRP has filed a class action lawsuit against distributed ledger startup Ripple, alleging that the company violated state and federal securities laws.

Law firm Taylor-Copeland law has filed a class action suit against Ripple Labs for the sale of unregistered securities, according to the official complaint filed yesterday, May 3.

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro announced the launch of a Petro-funded crypto bank to support initiatives from youth and students, Latin American government-sponsored news outlet TeleSur reported yesterday, May 3.

Arizona's long-in-the-making cryptocurrency tax payments bill has been further stripped down - so much so that it no longer mentions the technology at all.

France has been hard to classify on the crypto lovers/haters spectrum.

British business tycoon Richard Branson spoke out Thursday about the rash of bitcoin scam stories that have used his name to lure victims.

On Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council unanimously voted in favor of evaluating the benefits of a pilot venture that aims to deploy blockchain technology to raise funds for local community initiatives.

Spencer Bogart, a partner at Blockchain Capital, said that other banks will follow Goldman Sachs' example in opening a crypto trading desk, according to CNBC's Fast Money today, May 4.

The cryptocurrency markets continued to build on April's gains this week, with alternative cryptocurrencies leading the way.

JP Morgan Chase & Co. has outlined a peer-to-peer payments network in a patent application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday, May 3.

Ethiopia is exploring the use of blockchain technology to track the supply chain for its largest export, coffee.

Police in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have ordered hotels to deploy a new blockchain security solution developed by local startup Zebi.

Since 1953, North and South Korea have been divided along the 38th parallel - creating what is now known as the famed Korean Demilitarized Zone.

Venezuela is launching a youth bank to be funded by the state's controversial petro cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin prices reached $9,786 Friday, May 4, as momentum continues to build for a challenge to resistance around $10,000.

Nearly half of the 26 publicly listed banks in China said they have deployed blockchain applications in 2017, according to a report.

The pro-Bitcoin community movement that galvanized last week against Bitcoin.com has reversed its plans to level a lawsuit against the site, community leader MoneyTrigz announced on the group's Telegram channel yesterday, May 3.

Controversial Italian cryptocurrency exchange has been shut down a mere three hours after re-launching operations due to a court order.

Following a bull breakout last night, bitcoin looks set to test $10,000 and could possibly move higher over the weekend.

Cai Wensheng, an angel investor from China and chairman of photo retouching app provider Meitu, says he has achieved his goal of accruing 10,000 bitcoins.