Search Results for: blockchain technology
Intercontinental Exchange plans to launch a bitcoin exchange
August 6th, 2018
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges, clearing houses, data and listings services, announced that it plans to form a new company, Bakkt, which intends to leverage Microsoft cloud solutions to create an open and regulated, global ...
The crypto-currencies that die before they have bloomed
July 12th, 2018
It has been the biggest craze in investment of the last two years – the idea that creating your own crypto-currency through an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is the route to riches. But now an academic study has revealed ...
Bitcoin is down 66%. But it still may be the future of money
July 11th, 2018
The price of one bitcoin (XBT) is now hovering around $6,400. That’s a more than 50% drop in 2018 and a 66% plunge from the all-time high of just under $20,000 that bitcoin hit in late December. Other cryptocurrencies, ...
EU released a report on Virtual Currencies and their future
July 6th, 2018
The Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies has issued the report “Virtual currencies and central banks monetary policy: challenges ahead”. According the report, Virtual currencies are a contemporary form of private money. Thanks to their ...
5 Tips to Buying Bitcoin in Canada
June 4th, 2018
With over a million dollars’ worth of volume bought and sold every day, Bitcoin remains one of the hottest digital assets traded by millions of speculators from all over the world. Backed by the power of blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies ...
‘HoweyCoin’: SEC trolls Crypto fraudsters with fake ICO campaign
May 17th, 2018
‘In a landmark embrace of technological innovation, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it will issue its own cryptocurrency – HoweyCoin – through an initial coin offering (ICO). Okay, that’s not actually true, but the ...
Will the world have a global cryptocurrency?
May 9th, 2018
Former Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn said Tuesday he thinks the world will have a global cryptocurrency that is not bitcoin. “I’m not a big believer in bitcoin. I am a believer in blockchain technology,” Cohn told CNBC’s Bob ...
Cryptocurrency market could hit $1 trillion this year
February 8th, 2018
Cryptocurrencies could go on a bull run greater than last year and pass the trillion-dollar mark in terms of value, experts told CNBC, following a recent violent sell-off across digital coins. Cryptocurrencies could go on a bull run greater ...
Gold-Backed Cryptocurrencies: Icing On An Already Tasty Cake
February 2nd, 2018
The blockchain has discovered gold (or gold has discovered the blockchain). Either way, this means several things. First, the decades-long dream of a gold-backed cybercurrency may finally be realized. Second, gold and probably silver are looking at a big ...
Starbucks Chairman speculated about a “legitimate” digital currency
January 29th, 2018
Howard Schultz dumped the equivalent of a double espresso into an otherwise humdrum Starbucks earnings call on Thursday. In response to an analyst question about tax law, the Starbucks executive chairman detoured into a stream-of-conscious monologue about Bitcoin and ...
