Coinbase regularly engages with students and universities across the globe as part of recruiting efforts. In our second annual Coinbase Report on Higher Education, we again partnered with Qriously to ask students directly about their thoughts on crypto and blockchain, and tracked how they’ve changed in the past 12 months. In this year’s report, we...Read More
Bitcoin’s recent price performance has provided little inspiration lately. An ongoing range-bound bounce between the high $9k and mid-$10k price levels has not given any clear direction of future movements. Some analysts expect a breakdown to a new lower low while others remain bullish. Bitcoin Order Book Looks Bullish From its Monday high which touched...Read More
Craig Wright, the man who claims to be the original creator of Bitcoin, is using an unfavorable court ruling to play mind games with bitcoin investors.The Australian computer scientist has to pay $5 billion in bitcoins to Ira Kleiman who earlier accused Wright of stealing the cryptocurrencies from his deceased brother, Dave Kleiman. Judge Bruce...Read More
Unsuccessful serial-forger and law-court regular, Craig Wright, just won’t give up the ghost of being Satoshi Nakamoto. Ordered by a judge to hand over half of his bitcoin holdings and intellectual property to the estate of Dave Kleiman, he concurred that he now “has no choice” but to do this. However, he was quick to warn of...Read More
A 12-year-old, future unschooling advocate at an Occupy Wall Street protest learns about Bitcoin while running from the cops. He invests. Later, the independent Erik Finman will become the supposed “world’s youngest bitcoin millionaire” at age 18. That’s not where the story ends, though. The high school dropout has since gone on to launch education...Read More
The cryptocurrency ecosystem has been critiqued by traditional markets for being unregulated and a place for crooks, criminals, and grifters to fleece noobs who know very little about what happens behind the scenes. It has been the center of speculation for many, while for others, it has been a place to get rich quick. Today,...Read More
With political and economic tensions escalating, investments in safe haven assets such as gold are on the rise. The commodity has often been compared to Bitcoin, but a recent outbreak of fake bars clearly illustrates the glaring differences in the two asset classes.Gold Prices Hit 2019 HighThe sentiment driving gold prices this year is showing...Read More
The upcoming CME futures expiration set for Friday is expected to have a significant effect on the next bitcoin price action as the biggest cryptocurrency threatens to plunge below the $10,000 mark. In the past nine weeks, the Bitcoin price rally has stalled. Analysts believe that the crypto may suffer a severe pullback if the...Read More
The bullion market is slowly but steadily flooded with ‘dirty gold bars,’ according to a recent Reuters report. It’s interesting to know what Peter Shiff and other gold supporters would say about this. Is the precious metal better than Bitcoin in terms of money laundering? Gold Market Flooded with Fake Bars Many Bitcoin skeptics have...Read More
The likelihood of bitcoin price hitting a fresh all-time-high near $20,000 in 2019 is diminishing. | Source: Shutterstock The likelihood of the bitcoin price surpassing its all-time high of $20,000 by the end of the year is a mere six percent. That’s according to data from Skew which tracks the BTC options market. Bitcoin has...Read More
The market chop and consolidation has continued for bitcoin today and analysts remain on the fence as to where it is likely to go next. The trading range is getting tighter however so a breakout could be imminent.Bitcoin Holding Fast at $10kOver the past 24 hours BTC has traded between $10k and $10.2k in a...Read More
There are many metrics to ascertain the popularity of bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading in different geographic regions across the world. One of them is the most traded fiat currencies chart which has revealed some interesting results. Asia Still Big on Bitcoin Unsurprisingly the US dollar was the top traded fiat currency according to statistics from...Read More
Silvergate Bank will allow Gemini’s customers deposit and withdraw U.S. Dollars from their accounts in real-time. This will help the customers to switch in and out of the crypto markets quickly. Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, founded by Bitcoin billionaires Winklevoss twins, announced its partnership with Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN), a USD payments platform. According to the...Read More
On August 26, the self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor, Craig Wright, was ordered by Southern District Court of Florida to distribute half of his BTC holdings and intellectual property assets from prior to 2014. According to the Kleiman estate attorney Vel Freedman, the family has waited a long time for the ruling and they believe things are...Read More
A Chinese student studying in Australia is allegedly being held at ransom with the kidnappers demanding Bitcoin worth over a million Australian dollars before they can release him. According to the Southern Metropolis Daily, the father of the 20-year old student was contacted by the kidnappers on August 24th. The kidnappers demanded 80 Bitcoin within...Read More
Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team, said that he recently bought more Bitcoin (BTC). On Aug. 23, Morey tweeted “I just bought more” in response a pro-Bitcoin tweet by Morgan Creek Digital Assets co-founder Anthony Pompliano, who said that Bitcoin allows investors to avoid the chaos of global markets. Indeed,...Read More
Algo Capital, an investment firm exclusively focusing on the Algorand blockchain ecosystem founded by the MIT professor Silvio Micali, has raised $200 million for a new fund dubbed Algo VC Fund. The company said in an announcement on Tuesday that those who committed include investors like NEO blockchain’s NGC Ventures, TechCrunch founder’s Arrington XRP Capital...Read More
Bitcoin SV’s Craig Wright hasn’t been one to stay away from the spotlight for long. nChain’s Chief Scientist in in the limelight again after the latest ruling in the case between the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto and David Kleiman broke the cryptoverse. In the aforementioned case, it was ruled that Craig Wright must forfeit half of...Read More
Bitcoin price struggled to gain above $10,500 and declined below $10,300 against the US Dollar.The price is currently trading in a bearish zone below the $10,350 and $10,500 resistances.There is a rising channel or a bearish flag forming with support near $10,040 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).The price...Read More
<div innerhtml=" Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain awareness got a big boost from bitcoin’s epic 2017 bull run, which has been furthered by some of the world’s biggest technology companies jumping into bitcoin and crypto. The bitcoin price, although it remains far under the near $20,000 per bitcoin it reached in late 2017, has rebounded strongly...Read More
George Harrap is CEO and co-founder of Hong Kong based Bitspark, a bankless money transfer ecosystem focused on Asia and Africa. This essay is presented as a part of No Closing Bell, a series leading up to Invest: Asia 2019 focused on how the Asian crypto markets are interacting with and impacting global investors. To...Read More
If Andrew Luck is worried about money after his early retirement, he should have a sit down with NFL star Russell Okung. To be clear, Luck is probably not worried about money. His former team, the Indianapolis Colts, has decided not to recoup the $24.8 million owed to them. Despite the fact that they could...Read More
After peaking at $12,000 earlier this month, Bitcoin is once again hovering over the $10,000 level making everybody nervous. BTC/USD is currently trading at $10,290 on Bitstamp with relatively low volume. Overall the market is looking healthy which comes to no surprise since Bitcoin seems to love the current range. Bitcoin News When it comes...Read More
Eddie Murphy is back but the question is not “are we ready?” It’s more like, “is Eddie Murphy ready?” The former standup prodigy is booked to host Saturday Night Live (SNL) this December. Netflix is working on a deal with Murphy to release an undisclosed amount of standup specials. According to TMZ, those negotiations are hovering...Read More
After hanging by a thread above $10,000 for most of the day yesterday, Bitcoin’s bulls stepped up and sent the cryptocurrency surging to highs of over $10,500. Although this rally did spark excitement amongst BTC investors, the move ultimately proved to be somewhat fleeting.Analysts are now noting that $10,900 is a key region of resistance...Read More
Many Bitcoin enthusiasts have high hopes for the Lightning Network. For a technology which has been accessible for some time now, it seems there isn’t much growth to take note of. In fact, it appears things are slowly growing worse as more time progresses. This is good news by any means, yet the ship hasn’t...Read More
Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright suffered a massive blow today when a judge reportedly ordered him to turn over 50% of the bitcoin he mined with his former business associate, deceased computer genius Dave Kleiman. Florida federal judge Bruce Reinhart also allegedly ordered Wright to give (to Kleiman’s estate) 50% of any intellectual property he...Read More
Based on a recent report, the ability to test how to trade digital currencies will soon be made available to users of mobile messaging giant —Telegram. A publication released by the messaging giant today stated that the developers of Button Wallet, a well-known messenger-based platform for trading Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Bitcoin and many other...Read More
A man who created his own Bitcoin ATM has pleaded guilty of money laundering and related crimes. Kunal Kalra, a resident of Westwood, California, used his machine and other means to clean as much as $25 million between 2015 and 2017.Court documents claim that Kalra also exchanged Bitcoin for cash with a range of criminals....Read More
Monday, Aug. 26 — Top cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and XRP are in the red. After trading sideways for most of the day, the market is currently seeing minor losses. Market visualization. Source: Coin360 BTC is trading at $10,350 at press time — a 1.72% price decrease on the day. BTC has been mostly...Read More
