Search Results for: Bitcoin exchange
Bitcoin down 77 per cent in the past month; alt-coins follow
March 16th, 2020
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has dropped 77 per cent over the past 30-days as the market responds to sharp falls in the global financial markets. Alt-coins (digital assets launched after BTC) XRP and Ethereum (ETH) have followed suit, with 103 ...
Bitcoin price is rising regardless coronavirus outbreak
February 14th, 2020
Bitcoin price has reached a mark of $10.000 which can mostly be explained by an effort of investors to find a safe haven amid the recent outbreak of coronavirus that has seriously affected many companies as in Asia, so ...
Money and the theory of exchange
October 23rd, 2019
Evidence mounts that the global credit cycle has turned towards its perennial crisis stage. This time, the gathering forces appear to be on a scale greater than any in living memory and therefore the inflation of all major ...
The world’s most-used cryptocurrency isn’t Bitcoin
October 4th, 2019
What’s the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency? If you think it’s Bitcoin, which accounts for about 70% of all the digital-asset world’s market value, you’re probably wrong. While concrete figures on trading volumes are hard to come by in ...
Russian bitcoin theft suspect sued for $100 million by US
July 29th, 2019
Digital currency exchange BTC-e and one of its owners, a Russian whose extradition the US is seeking from Greece to face criminal charges, now face a civil lawsuit in California The US is attempting to recover penalties of $100 ...
Bitcoin vs Libra
July 22nd, 2019
Bitcoin vs Libra: Here are the key differences between the two cryptocurrencies Libra and bitcoin are different in a lot of ways, from the technology behind them to the way they’re used. CNBC runs through the key differences between ...
Company charged in $147 million fraudulent bitcoin trading scheme
June 19th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of a civil enforcement action (Complaint) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against defendants Control-Finance Limited (Control-Finance), a purported Bitcoin trading and investment company, ...
Bitcoin climbs above $7,000 as cryptocurrency rally extends
May 13th, 2019
Bitcoin climbed to the highest since September, briefly surpassing $7,000, as a rally in cryptocurrencies gathered pace in trading over the weekend. Bitcoin advanced 11% from Friday to $6,957.73 as of 9:01 a.m. Tokyo time, having earlier hit $7,585, ...
Trading Platform and its CEO fined for illegal Bitcoin related transactions
March 14th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that a federal court entered a Consent Order (Order) resolving a CFTC action against 1pool Ltd., located in the Marshall Islands, and its chief executive officer and owner, Patrick Brunner, for illegally ...
This country draws Japanese Bitcoin miners seeking profit
January 16th, 2019
A combination of cheap electricity and cold weather has started to draw a growing number of Japanese bitcoin miners to Mongolia, a country sandwiched between China to the south and Russia to the north. Amid falling mining revenues in ...