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  • European supervisory authorities jointly warned consumers this week about the potential risk of buying and holding virtual currencies like bitcoin.
  • Hong Kong’s markets regulator has sounded off another warning on cryptocurrencies, taking action against a number of exchanges and issuers of initial coin offerings (ICOs).
  • Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Christopher Giancarlo on Tuesday criticised the oversight regime of cryptocurrency spot transactions, saying that a “rationalised federal framework” could be more effective at ensuring the market’s integrity.
  • The cryptocurrency world exploded in popularity, appeal and market capitalisation over the course of 2017. Exchanges struggled to develop products to cater to the huge swell of speculative demand. They’re learning quickly that the market wasn’t ready.
  • After months of sensational growth, bitcoin has, at last, faltered. An increasingly hostile regulatory environment has caused its price, which nudged $20,000 in December, to collapse to around $9,000.
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have hardened their stances on cryptocurrency markets, amid wider market concerns about initial coin offerings and the launch of bitcoin futures.