In this section you will find all news, analysis and forecasts related to bitcoin.
As the United States government continues to bring crypto scammers to justice, Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson, a Swedish resident, was arrested in Thailand for cryptocurrency scam. The arrest was announced on June 19 and Karlsson will stand trial in the state of California….
Southwestern Chinese province Sichuan authorities are investigating the activity of local BTC mining farms, as they are supposed to be created without official permission. According to the local media, the Bureau of Land and Resource in Garzê discovered farms of BTC mining…
The United States government carries on its efforts to eliminate crypto asset scams in the country. On May 28, 2019, Judge Anthony J Battaglia sentenced Morgan Rockcoons of Las Vegas, Nevada, to 21 months in jail for managing an illegal business of…
Hackers developed a new scheme, disguised as free BTC and ETH generators, aimed at cryptocurrency stealing and implementing ransomware viruses on the victims’ computers. The Bleeping Computer reports that hackers use some sites to promote their programs for free distribution of Bitcoin…
As Bitcoin reached its one year high, excitement in the crypto community rises. Since March, crypto asset prices have doubled and, as a result, the interest in crypto increased too. The first crypto coin, BTC, increased by 10 percent since Friday and…
BITСONNECT RETURNS: A VERSION 2.0 OF FRAUDULENT PROJECT Apparently, the coming return of known fraudulent schemes BitСonnect. The organizers of the project revealed their plans to launch in July this year. The owner of the Twitter account added that potential investors will…
MATI GREENSPAN ETORO: “THE PRICE OF BITCOIN WILL RISE TO 50 000%” Senior analyst of the cryptocurrency platform believes that the main digital coin has just begun its ascent to the historical maximum The recent rise in the bitcoin rate was the…
eBAY HAS DENIED RUMORS ABOUT ACCEPTING CRYPTOCURRENCY AS A MEANS OF PAYMENT A representative of eBay denied rumors that the largest platform of online auctions plans to start accepting cryptocurrencies for payment. “Cryptocurrencies are not accepted as a form of payment on…
LARGE US CHAIN STORES WILL START ACCEPTING CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR PAYMENT Several large US chain stores, including Amazon’s Whole Foods food chain, announced the imminent availability of payment for goods with cryptocurrencies. It is reported that, in addition to Whole Foods, cryptocurrency will…
BINANCE WILL RESUME ACCEPTING DEPOSITS AND WITHDRAWALS THIS WEEK The head of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, announced that deposit and withdrawal of funds suspended last week after the hacking of the site will be resumed on Tuesday. “Our team has…
HACKERS HACKED BINANCE. CRYPTOCURRENCY WITHDRAWAL IS TEMPORARILY STOPPED A large exchange lost more than $ 41 million in Bitcoin. Unplanned technical work began on the platform. On May 7, 7000 BTC ($ 41.1 million at the current exchange rate) were stolen from…
50% OF TRANSACTIONS IN THE BITCOIN CASH NETWORK IN APRIL REFER TO THE SAME ADDRESS Only one address in the Bitcoin Cash network is responsible for half of the transactions carried out during the last month, draws the attention of the user…
THE NEXT VERSION OF BITCOIN CORE 0.18.0 IS LAUNCHED On May 2nd, the developers published the next version of the Bitcoin Core full-client 0.18.0. As expected, now full bitcoin nodes running on the new version of Bitcoin Core will be able to interact…
BITPAY WILL ALLOW US CITIZENS TO RECEIVE TAX DEDUCTION IN BITCOINS Cryptocurrency payment service BitPay has announced a partnership with the financial company Refundo in order to provide US citizens with the opportunity to receive a tax deduction in bitcoins. In this…
TOM LEE: “BITCOIN WILL REACH NEW HEIGHTS IN 2020” The founder of the company Fundstrat Global Advisors and well-known cryptocurrency enthusiast Tom Lee said that next year bitcoin will reach new heights. In an interview with CNBC, Lee said that the first…
MATI GREENSPAN: “FOR THE GROWTH OF THE BITCOIN ETF IS NOT REQUIRED” Mati Greenspan, a senior analyst at eToro, expressed the view that Bitcoin growth does not necessarily require approval of Bitcoin ETFs from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According…
JOHN MCAFEE ANNOUNCED THE RELEASE OF HIS OWN BITCOIN DEBIT CARD Well-known programmer, entrepreneur and bitcoin enthusiast, John McAfee, has announced the release of a debit card for Bitcoin. According to the teaser, it can be used to pay for goods and…
COINME AND COINSTAR HAVE INSTALLED MORE THAN 2,000 KIOSKS (GROCERY STORES) IN THE US TO BUY BTC FOR CASH Coinstar has expanded its network of cash withdrawal kiosks – more than 2,000 new kiosks have been installed in stores in 19 different…
Lightning Labs, one of the main developers of solutions based on Lightning Network scaling technology, has released the first desktop application for the main bitcoin network. Previously, the desktop version of the wallet worked with the bitcoin test network, which is accessed…
The founder of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, Anthony Pompliano, believes that bitcoin can show parabolic growth in the next five years. “Bitcoin is the only asset with a capitalization of $95 billion, which I believe has the potential to grow 20-50 times…
