The cryptocurrency markets dipped below $170 billion on Monday, with traders expressing tepidity about a potential Japanese initial coin offering ban. | Continue reading
Japan is a powerhouse in the cryptocurrencies market, trading about 63% of the world’s Bitcoin. However, ban of Initial Coin Offering (ICO) by some Asian countries has investors worried that Japan could follow suit. | Continue reading
The Royal Bank of Canada's CEO has said that he would never call bitcoin a fraud, but he admits he does have 'real concerns' about the currency. | Continue reading
Earlier today, on October 22, the bitcoin price declined from $6,150 to $5,880, recording a minor correction after achieving a new all-time high at $6,199. | Continue reading
BitMEX, a cryptocurrency exchange, has clarified its position on hard forks considering the pending SegWit2x hard fork in November. The SegWit2x hard fork is intended to provide a minimal patch to resolve the conflict over activating SegWit and increase the block size to allow fa … | Continue reading
Earlier today, on October 20, the Bitcoin price achieved a new all-time high at $6,054, for the third time in the past 20 days. | Continue reading
Traders restored a bit of stability to the crypto markets on Friday following a day of sideways trading. The bitcoin price and ethereum price each declined a bit less than 1% for the day, and most major altcoins experienced similar minor declines. | Continue reading
According to TheNational.ae, bitcoin adoption in Zimbabwe is seemingly skyrocketing as the country’s economic situation looks bleak. So much so, that one bitcoin is trading at nearly $10,000 on the Golix.io exchange, while the global average is, at press time, of $5,642.0 | Continue reading
Peer-to-peer (P2P) data sharing startup Streamr concluded its initial coin offering (ICO) on Monday, reaching its roughly $31 million hard cap nearly two weeks early. The Streamr ICO, which was managed by Swiss crypto-asset broker Bitcoin Suisse, raised 30 million CHF, worth abou … | Continue reading
Bitcoin may have had a tough September, but it appears to being turning a corner and is demonstrating its resilience in the face of obstacles. | Continue reading
Bitcoin cash proponents Roger Ver and Calvin Ayre have announced a plan to use their influence and considerable wealth to rebrand bitcoin cash as “bitcoin”. Ver, an early bitcoin investor once nicknamed “Bitcoin Jesus”, has incurred the ire of much of the bitcoin community over t … | Continue reading
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has tapped Ripple’s Interledger Protocol (ILP) to help level the economic playing field for the 2 billion people who are trapped in poverty, many of whom solely because they do not have access to a bank account or other basic financial services … | Continue reading
billionaire bitcoin investor Mike Novogratz has called Jamie Dimon a ‘rent-taker’ who will lose the fight against bitcoin and blockchain technology. | Continue reading
Following a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and financial officials, regulators have decided to officially regulate both the mining and supply of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. | Continue reading
The stellar price rose by more than 100% on Monday following the announcement that the fintech platform was partnering with IBM and KlickEx to develop a blockchain-based cross-border payments solution. IBM and Stellar Partner for Banking Solution Monday morning, IBM announced a b … | Continue reading
Financial analyst Gary Shilling has called bitcoin a 'black box' and that he suspicious of things that 'aren't transparent.' | Continue reading
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stated that central banks and banking providers should start taking cryptocurrencies seriously. | Continue reading
UBS Chief Executive officer Sergio Ermotti says that wealthy investors are curious about bitcoin and other crypto assets but are not ready to make significant investments in cryptocurrency. Ermotti told Bloomberg that the exceptional year-to-date performance of bitcoin, ethereum, … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency mining pool F2Pool has stopped signaling support for SegWit2x, potentially undermining the argument for the November implementation of the controversial scaling proposal. | Continue reading
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said he is no longer going to discuss bitcoin after much his-publicized criticism of calling the cryptocurrency ‘a fraud’ last month. | Continue reading
Join our community of 10 000 traders on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. The ripple price has risen by 30% since the beginning of October, bolstered by the growth of RippleNet — the startup’s enterprise network — as well as anticipation for the company’s upcoming “Swell” confer … | Continue reading
The government of Abu Dhabi, through its markets regulator, has released guidelines on virtual currencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs). | Continue reading
The New York Agreement (NYA) lost another signatory on Tuesday, as Latin American bitcoin exchange SurBTC withdrew support for SegWit2x a month before its scheduled release. The Chilean startup made the announcement on Tuesday in an official blog post, joining a litany of compani … | Continue reading
The Russian central bank’s decision to block bitcoin exchange websites hardly caused any blip in its prices. | Continue reading
Get exclusive fiat and cryptocurrency analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Click here now! The bitcoin price held above $4,800 on Tuesday, bringing it one step closer to reaching $5,000 and setting a new all-time high. The ethereum price declined for the day, but it man … | Continue reading
The bitcoin price surged past $4,875 on Monday as traders began to flee from the altcoin markets and pour their wealth back into bitcoin ahead of the SegWit2x hard fork that is scheduled for November. Bitcoin Price Surges Past $4,875 Bitcoin’s dominant hold on the cryptocurrency … | Continue reading
For the first time since September 8, the Bitcoin price has surpassed $4,620, fully recovering from the Chinese government’s ban on local exchanges. | Continue reading
The bitcoin price rose another 3% on Monday, bringing it within $20 of the $4,600 threshold and enabling it to raise its total market share above 50%. | Continue reading
As Malaysia’s central bank develops guidelines for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, a blanket ban is still not out of the question according to its governor. | Continue reading
Bitcoin price surpassed the $4,500 mark Sunday, reaching $4,614.91 Sunday, posting a market capitalization of $76.662 billion. | Continue reading
In a recent interview, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed that he's a bitcoiner, and spoke about the potential of blockchain technology | Continue reading
The vision behind the IOTA Foundation’s distributed ledger protocol, the Tangle, has always been twofold: unlimited scaling and zero fees. Using a unique, non-block based system, the Tangle promises to deliver just that. | Continue reading
Bitfinex, a Hong Kong based cryptocurrency exchange, has decided to halt verification requests from U.S. customers, citing a backlog of requests and problems providing USD deposits and withdrawals, according to an announcement on its website. The company noted it has been conside … | Continue reading
Australian politicians from rival political parties have unitedly urged Australia’s central bank to deem bitcoin as an official, legal form of currency. | Continue reading
On August 17, Bitstamp added support for Ethereum to its popular cryptocurrency exchange platform. As of this morning, users have access to ETH/BTC, ETH/USD, and ETH/EUR trading pairs. | Continue reading
Get exclusive analysis and cryptocurrency insights on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. ATLANT (Atlant.io) has announced the successful completion of its ICO presale, raising over $1 million in just a few days, exceeding its funding objectives. ATLANT is ending its ICO Presale o … | Continue reading
Open Positions at CCN: Full Time and Part Time Journalists Wanted. According to crypto lore, bitcoin’s meteoric rise will one day culminate in a trip to the moon. It’s not there yet, but Blockstream is trying to take it one step closer with the launch of Blockstream Satellite. Th … | Continue reading
An American and a Brit made history on May the 22nd 2010, when the former offered 10,000 bitcoins for a pizza. An offer taken by the Brit, who phoned Papa John’s and sent the American the pizza he craved. That was the first real world transaction with decentralized free market mo … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has, for the first time in its history, reached $2,000 and beyond during trading on Saturday. | Continue reading
Law firm Berns Weiss LLP has filed a motion on behalf of two Coinbase users to intervene and challenge a 'John Doe' summons issued by the IRS on Coinbase. | Continue reading
Indian bitcoin wallet and exchange platform Zebpay hits a notable milestone in seeing over 500,000 installs of its app-only service on Android as bitcoin gains popularity in India. | Continue reading
A number of Indian companies affected by the WannaCry ransomware malware are reportedly unwilling to pay bitcoin ransoms due to fears of being associated in any way with the cryptocurrency. | Continue reading
For the first time ever, bitcoin no longer holds more than half the value of all digital currencies as its market share has been dropping like a rock for the past two months, down from around 80% to now less than 50%. | Continue reading
Disney’s upcoming installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been plundered by real-life pirates who are now holding Disney Studios to a bitcoin ransom. | Continue reading
A U.K.-based cyber researcher known as MalwareTech stopped the WannaCry ransomware that gained control of thousands of computers worldwide, forcing victims to pay $300 in bitcoin to restore their files. | Continue reading
As many as 74 countries around the world have been hit bya massive ransomware campaign that is demanding a $300 ransom per organization | Continue reading
Blockchain technology can be of systemic relevance, said Jakob von Weizsäcker, a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) | Continue reading
As of May 12, bitcoin price in the South Korean exchange market is $2,076, approximately 12.7 percent higher than that of the global average price. | Continue reading