With bitcoin prices rising by as much as 1,700% within the past twelve months - and doubling over the past five weeks - many have enjoyed life-changing capital gains. Yet as the cryptocurrency’s value grows more favourable, so too does it entice hackers to focus their attention on formul ...
Goldman Sachs, one of the world’s most prominent investment institutions, has announced plans to clear bitcoin futures for some of its high net worth clients, according to information from Bloomberg. This announcement is seen as an important step towards bringing cryptocurrency-based fin ...
In a CNBC interview, Andrew Busch, the Chief Marketing Intelligence Officer for the United States’ Commodities Future Trading Commission, said that integrating bitcoin into traditional exchanges will come with its own unique challenges.
One of these challenges will be keeping potential ...
One hundred and seven so-called "knock-off" altcoins are under investigation for financial crimes according to reports from Xinhua news, the official press agency of the Chinese Communist Party.
Chinese authorities claim that these altcoins coins represent fraudulent Ponzi schemes desi ...
It seemed as if the upcoming bitcoin futures contracts offered something for everyone. Bulls were happy at a move which seemed to grant the asset mainstream legitimacy while bears finally had a market where they could be bearish. However, one group is considerably less impressed, the fin ...
Russia has confirmed that buying cryptocurrencies will be legal in the country. Russian authorities are working on legislation to cover all aspects of the crypto space, including ICOs, currency trading and mining. Vladimir Putin has instructed legislators to have everything ready by summ ...
An army of digital furballs have laid siege to ethereum’s blockchain in the form of the game CryptoKitties.
The feline frenzy is the brainchild of Axion Zen, a Canadian creative venture firm. Built on ethereum’s blockchain, the gaming platform is the first of its kind. Kittens are dis ...
Hackers have compromised cryptocurrency mining platform NiceHash and cleared out users’ bitcoin balances. NiceHash’s marketing head Andrej P. Škraba confirmed to Reuters that around 4,700 bitcoin had been taken, worth more than $70 million at current prices.
Initially NiceHash claimed ...
It used to take bitcoin months to go up $1000. Now it’s taking hours. Just as everyone was getting used to the price hitting $13,000, it went above $14,000. Yesterday’s $2,500 gain was the biggest single day rise the currency has ever seen.
Various explanations have been put forward to ...
The popular video game marketplace Steam will stop accepting bitcoin as a form of payment on their purchasing platform. On the morning of December 6th, the company announced the news on its website’s public forum, stating the change will be effective immediately.
Steam first began accep ...
