Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) has initiated a new reform and has set new guidelines which now makes tit mandatory for the domestic cryptocurrency exchanges to register with the authority before mid-May this year.

South Korea is is aiming to take its relationship with the blockchain technology a step further as Seoul is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency.

Malaysia based Air Asia has announced its plans of developing their own cryptocurrency and launching 'BigCoin' for the ease of their customers. The digital currency will see its own Initial Coin Offerings.

Twitter has confirmed that the site would ban cryptocurrency and ICO-related advertisements from their website, which will come into effect from 27 March.

A new report from US Congress has dubbed 2017 as 'The Year of Cryptocurrencies.' The report calls for lawmakers and industry stakeholders to use the blockchain technology judiciously.

South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb has announced to bring the cryptocurrency Kiosk to the restaurants where the customers would be able to pay for the food through the digital currencies.

The opposition lawmaking bodies have opposed the issuance of national cryptocurrency Petro by calling it unconstitutional.

Bill Gates has talked about the risks and concerns associated with the cryptocurrencies calling it a threat for the people. He also said that it is killing people in a fairly direct way as many people use these to facilitate the illicit transactions.

As many other countries are maintaining a rigid stance on the cryptocurrencies, the continent of Africa might emerge as the next big market for crypto investors.

Ripple Chief Executive, Brad Garlinghouse believes that the cryptocurrencies value might plunge to zero in the future its future is very risky.

Hong Kong's securities regulators, Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has ramped up their efforts to regulate the illicit exchanges involved with the trade of ICOs and other cryptocurrencies.

The SEC and CFTC, US top financial regulators, pressed for coming up with some regulatory policies so that illegal trading of the Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies could be stopped. They said that they need to come up with a coordinated plan to deal with the digital currency market.

Britain's biggest mortgage lender, Lloyds bans its customers from purchasing Bitcoins using credit card. The bank fears that it would be laden with debt if its price falls.

Samsung Electronics has announced that it would be making chips for Bitcoin mining hardware. They would be developing ASIC to mine Bitcoins.

Facebook has announced a ban on all ads which promotes cryptocurrencies including bitcoins and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). It aims to stop scammers so that it can prevent people from advertising 'financial products and services associated with misleading promotional practices.'

One of the world’s largest digital currency exchanges Coincheck has assured it would refund most of the $534m worth of virtual assets lost in a hacking attack.

English Premier League club, Arsenal has decided to lend its name to promote a new digital token sold by California based CashBet. With this, it has become world's first major football team to partner with cryptocurrency

Despite the distrust of national bank and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC), Cambodian are eager to invest in cryptomarket.

Amid the South Korea government considering a ban on the exchange and trade of crypto currency, the old hands of the crypto market are still confident of gains.

Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple appeared to recover from Wednesday's lows as their prices bounced back to $11,527.70, $1,039.08 and $1.64 respectively.