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South Africa’s Second Largest Supermarket Chain Pick n Pay Trials Bitcoin Payments
September 18th, 2017
A major supermarket chain in South Africa, Pick n Pay, has started a trial to accept bitcoin payments in-store at its head office location. A payment technology company named Electrum provides the payments platform, with bitcoin exchange Luno providing ...
Canada’s first registration of an investment fund manager dedicated to cryptocurrency investments
September 8th, 2017
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) announced the first registration of an investment fund manager in Canada solely dedicated to cryptocurrency investments. The BCSC has granted First Block Capital Inc. registration as an investment fund manager and an exempt ...
Cryptocurrency Transactions Could Surpass $1 Trillion This Year
September 6th, 2017
The value of cryptocurrency transactions is forecast to surpass $1 trillion this year, which is 15 times the level reached in 2016. That’s according to a new study from Juniper Research called The Future of Blockchain: Key Vertical Opportunities ...
How Bitcoin is making waves in the luxury market
August 28th, 2017
When Bitcoin and a subsequent raft of cryptocurrencies first landed in the early part of the decade, many people — including noted economists and finance experts — dismissed them as a fad. These new forms of digital money were ...
If bitcoin was a stock, it would be the seventy-fourth biggest by market capitalization
August 16th, 2017
If bitcoin was a stock, it would be the seventy-fourth biggest by market capitalization, on the S&P 500. Bitcoin hit a record high of $4,483.55 on Tuesday. Bitcoin’s market capitalization reached as high as $73.5 billion, within touching distance ...
7 Cryptocurrency Predictions From the Experts
July 28th, 2017
Fortune convened some top cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, bankers, and others to chat about the future of digital money at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo. last week. A select group met at the Aspen Institute for a ...
How Bitcoin is infiltrating the $60bn global art market
July 26th, 2017
Why is the art world getting excited about digital currency Bitcoin and its underlying technology blockchain? Eleesa Dadiani owns and runs an art gallery in London’s famous Cork Street. She was born in Georgia in the Caucasus and was ...
Hackers hijacked cryptocurrency trading platform and stole $7 Million
July 19th, 2017
Hackers hijacked cryptocurrency trading platform CoinDash on Monday just as it was in the middle of its initial coin offering, or ICO. It’s the first known breach of an ICO, this season’s hottest fundraising method. CoinDash, an Israeli startup, planned ...
Teenage bitcoin millionaire can see the cryptocurrency’s value shooting as high as $1 million
June 22nd, 2017
If this teen entrepreneur, high-school dropout and bitcoin millionaire has any predictive powers at all, then we’ve hardly seen the top of the market for the hot cybercurrency. Meet Erik Finman, who started picking up bitcoin at $12 apiece ...
Bitcoin bulls runs wild as cryptocurrency surges above $3000
June 12th, 2017
Bitcoin traded above $3,000 for the first time on Sunday, continuing this year’s massive surge and helped by increased demand from Asia-based investors. After trading in a range for the last week, bitcoin climbed to an all-time high Sunday ...
