US Regulators warn that Bitcoin and Blockchain tech is a threat to financial stability
by Duncan Riley A group of powerful United States regulators has named Bitcoin and Blockchain technologies as being a threat
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Month: June 2016
Bitcoin Ransomware Popularity Increased Spectacularly In 2015
by: Jp Buntinx Bitcoin ransomware threats are once again making the headlines these days. Albeit they are now popular than
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PayPal and Coinbase Strike New Bitcoin Payout Agreement, Millions of Customers Affected
By Evander Smart The mega-wallet provider Coinbase and global payments leader PayPal have formed the start of a new agreement
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Bitcoin Price Drops Below $600 As ‘Brexit’ Hopes Falter
By Pete Rizzo The price of bitcoin fell $100 during a five-hour span today, dropping 15% to reach a low of
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Bitwage Launches Bitcoin Payroll Services in Mexico
By JP Buntinx Mexico is a fascinating country when it comes to the remittance market. There is a lot of
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Bitcoin Price Plunges Below $700 As Market Outlook Weakens
By Charles Bovaird The price of bitcoin fell below $700 on 21st June, dropping more than 10% in an aggressive correction to
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US Regulators Recommend Oversight for Bitcoin and Distributed Ledgers
By Stan Higgins A major financial oversight body within the US government created in the wake of the financial crisis
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What Ethereum’s DAO Disaster Means for Bitcoin Development
By Michael del Castillo Up until the point when The DAO collapsed, it was a symbol of the explosion of
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Bitcoin Foundation Starts Its Comeback By Appointing New Executive Director
Author Olusegun Ogundeji The appointment of South Africa’s Llew Claasen as the new Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation has
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Investor Tim Draper is Still Buying Bitcoin and Now Owns Ether
By Pete Rizzo The recent rise in the price of bitcoin shows “people are coming around” to the digital currency,
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Will The $50m Heist Of The DAO Take Down Bitcoin’s Rival Blockchain?
By Jonathan Chester Just a few short days ago I mentioned the arrival of The DAO, a company without any
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Bitcoin Price Crash: Why The Sell-Off?
By Venzen Khaosan The bitcoin price chart slammed down like a Stark on a Bolton, today, but readers are being
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Telegraph Technology Winklevoss twins launch bitcoin exchange in the UK
By James Titcomb he twin brothers who sued Mark Zuckerberg after claiming he stole their idea for Facebook are opening
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Singapore Bitcoin Exchange Quoine Raises $20m; Moves to Tokyo
By JP Buntinx Bitcoin companies are seeing significant interest from investors all over the world. Quoine, a Singapore Bitcoin exchange,
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Popularity of Bitcoin in Online Gaming Continues to Grow
By Gola Yashu Have you ever heard of Bitcoin? It is a digital currency and online payment system that users
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BitPay Executive Weighs in on the Bitcoin Price Surge
By Samburaj Das Bitcoin price has been in the spotlight of the financial media lately with its soaring value and
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Pissed-off customers sue GAW Miners in proposed class-action suit
by Cyrus Farivar An angry group of former customers has sued a collapsed Bitcoin mining company, GAW Miners, in a
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$19 Million in Bitcoin Hits the Auction Block in Australia
By Pete Rizzo More than $19m worth of bitcoin is now being sold at auction in a public sale overseen
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The DAO Attacked: Code Issue Leads to $60 Million Ether Theft
By Michael del Castillo The DAO, the distributed autonomous organization that had collected over $150m worth of the cryptocurrency ether, has
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Thunder And Lightning In The Bitcoin World
By Frances Coppola , In my last post, I alluded to the fact that blockchain (specifically, public blockchains such as
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Bitcoin Hasn’t Done Anything Special Say the Brits in a Survey
By Gautham While the hopes are strong among the Bitcoin community about the emergence of bitcoin as a mainstream payment
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Investment Weekly Barron’s Includes Bitcoin among 2016’s ‘Winning Portfolio’
By Elliot Maras Barron’s report highlights a trio among the “winning” portfolio of 2016 : gold, treasuries and bitcoin. Ed Yardeni,
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The Sky Isn’t Falling: Steven Zeiler on Why Bitcoin’s Future Is Strong
By Joël Valenzuela Bitcoin Classic, a fork of Bitcoin with a doubled two-megabyte block size limit, appears to have failed.
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Bitcoin Price And The Weekend Move
By Venzen Khaosan The bitcoin price holds sideways in pattern suggesting advance. Another rewarding week in the market and it
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Ether Price Plumets; Ethereum DAO May Be Hacked
By Andrew Quentson Ethereum took a drastic dive this morning as news came in that the DAO smart contract address
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Canada’s CAD-COIN — And Bitcoin’s Price Rally
By PYMNTS Is the concept of “experimenting with a digital dollar” the financial services industry’s version of the hula hoop?
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Why Bitcoin is finally set to realise its potential
Gola Yashu For years, Bitcoin has endured something of a roller-coast ride at the hands of regulators, users and
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