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Most notable and costly cryptocurrency hacks and scams
July 16th, 2018
Crypto Aware, a community-focused initiative reporting crypto-related scams, has published a curated list of the most notable Bitcoin and altcoins hacks ever reported. According the report: “Since the inception of Bitcoin in 2009, the development of cryptocurrencies and blockchain ...
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 ...
A Bitcoin civil war is threatening to tear the digital currency in 2 — here’s what you need to know
March 27th, 2017
There’s a civil war in the bitcoin community over the digital currency’s future. Developers, miners, and other stakeholders are locked in a heated debate over how best to scale the network, with chances steadily rising of irreconcilable differences causing ...
The second country in the world to develop a National Digital Currency
December 1st, 2016
Senegal has recently become only the second country in the world to introduce a digital currency based on blockchain technology. Named eCFA, the digital currency will be legal tender just as the current currency, CFA Franc, is. Senegal’s eCFA ...
Cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin announced the listing of SingularDTV Token
October 6th, 2016
The Cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin has issued an announcement to inform for the launch for trading of SingularDTV’s token, SNGLS (listed as SNG) on Gatecoin.com following the decentralized entertainment platform’s crowd sale on October 2nd, 2016, where USD 7.5 million equivalent in ETH was ...
Virtual Currency that is rival to Bitcoin, attracts attention and has soared in value
March 28th, 2016
A new virtual gold rush is underway. Even as Bitcoin, riven by internal divisions, has struggled, a rival virtual currency — known as Ethereum — has soared in value, climbing 1,000 percent over the last three months. Beyond the ...
Global crypto user base surpassed half a billion in 2023 — Crypto.com report
January 26th, 2024
A research report from Crypto.com estimates the number of worldwide cryptocurrency users surged to 580 million people in 2023. More than half a billion people had become cryptocurrency users or owners by the end of 2023, according to a ...
The real point of cryptocurrencies is not their price
May 27th, 2021
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an email conversation between columnist Andy Kessler and billionaire Mark Cuban in which Cuban explains the real point of cryptocurrencies. Hint: It has nothing to do with the price of bitcoin or ethereum. ...
Cryptocurrencies combined are now worth more than Apple
April 15th, 2021
The cryptocurrency market is now worth more than the world’s most valuable company. It comes after record-breaking price climbs for three of the largest cryptocurrencies on Tuesday, just a day before the initial public offering (IPO) of one of ...
Bitcoin bulls pushed BTC price through a key resistance level
February 3rd, 2021
On Feb. 2 Ether (ETH) saw its price breakout to a new all-time high at $1,555 as increased activity in the derivatives market provided clear signals that traders were bullish on the long-term prospects of the largest altcoin by ...
