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Bitcoin price rises to the highest in more than two years
June 17th, 2016
In another bitcoin price rally the cryptocurrency smashed through the $750 (£530) mark during trading today to reach a 2016 high, after falling below $700 on Tuesday. By mid-afternoon (GMT), bitcoin was still trading up 5.8 per cent at more ...
Canadians Launch Concierge Brokerage Service for the Bitcoin Generation
June 15th, 2016
Canadians Launch Concierge Brokerage Service for the Bitcoin Generation Bitbuy.ca is a Crypto-Currency Service That Offers Banking, Procurement and Merchant Solutions to the End User TORONTO, ON–(Marketwired – June 14, 2016) – While Bitcoin and crypto-currency continue to expand into ...
Bitcoin Price Hits Two-Year High
June 14th, 2016
The price of the digital currency bitcoin hit a two-year high, trading above $700 on Monday morning after it spiked 21% over the weekend as traders raced in front of an unusual event called the “halving,” an adjustment to ...
An Everyman’s Guide To Understanding Cryptocurrencies
June 13th, 2016
Cryptocurrencies have a role that could increase as global currencies are devalued. When an asset rises by almost 30% in a few weeks, it tends to attract attention. Recently, that asset was bitcoin (BTC). The price of BTC in ...
Why the bitcoin has become China’s new darling
June 8th, 2016
Speculation over yuan devaluation and the mainland’s anti-corruption drive have contributed to the currency’s growing popularity Bitcoin has become the new darling of mainland punters amid a slumbering stock market, heightened expectations of the yuan’s devaluation and even the ...
CFTC Orders Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex to Pay $75,000
June 3rd, 2016
CFTC Orders Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex to Pay $75,000 for Offering Illegal Off-Exchange Financed Retail Commodity Transactions and Failing to Register as a Futures Commission Merchant The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously ...
The Five Most Useful Properties of Bitcoin
June 2nd, 2016
Bitcoin has received plenty of hype as the money of the future over the past few years, but what are the properties of this digital asset that set it apart from everything else on the market? What are the ...
Three reasons why bitcoin’s price is surging higher
June 1st, 2016
Bitcoin is trading at its highest price in almost two years, driven by several factors including market conditions in Asia, according to experts in the cryptocurrency. The online currency ended Monday at around $542.77 and hit a high of ...
Mystery Solved: $6.6 Million Bitcoin Theft That Brought Down Dark Web Site Tied To 2 Florida Men
May 31st, 2016
The U.S. government has seized $4.5 million from two Florida men who allegedly stole 5,400 bitcoins from illegal online drug sales site Sheep Marketplace in late 2013, shortly before the price of bitcoin hit its peak of around $1,200, ...
Bitcoin Miner KnCMiner Declares Bankruptcy
May 31st, 2016
KnCMiner, who recently won a lawsuit against complainants who had sued over late or failed delivery of one of the company’s previous iterations of bitcoin mining hardware (the Titan) , has filed bankruptcy ahead of July’s mining reward halving. The Swedish ...
