In this section you will find all news, analysis and forecasts related to bitcoin.
Is Blockchain PR Necessary? The cryptocurrency industry was born as a counterculture movement against the economic status quo established by big banks and sovereign states. Bitcoin was created shortly after the financial crisis of 2008, in what most people consider a…
Two of the Russian Federal Security Service agents were recently accused and charged of a BTC scams, as a result of an operation to eliminiate cyber-criminals from the agency. Sergei Belousov and Aleksey Kolbov were charged of fraud of $1 mln, based…
Amazon, the world-famous e-commerce, now allows usage of Bitcoin when making payments via the lightning network. Moon, a crypto payment processing startup, announced that from this point crypto asset payments are enabled in shops like Amazon. The transfer of funds will occur…
Zaif, a Japan-based crypto asset exchange, that was a victim of a cyber attack in 2018, now has new owners. On the website Zaif stated that on the 22nd of April the exchange will be signed over to Fisco, an investment company…
Kraken, a US-based crypto asset exchange, announced that from May, 2019 they are going to start listing two coins per month. This exchange chose to list Cosmos (ATOM), a Proof-Of-Stake crypto asset, which was founded upon the Tendermint consensus protocol. This digital…
Conceivably the biggest enigma of the digital asset community is the identity of the person that on 18 August 2008 brought about Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. The first cryptocurrency was launched almost 10 years ago and since then more than 2k cryptocurrencies have…
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, known as the Winklevoss twins, finally settled the lawsuit against American BTC entrepreneur Charlie Shrem over $26 mln. The twins claimed that Shrem owed the twins money. Based on a court filing which occurred on the 5th of…
Max Keiser believes that, as nations start fighting for domination in mining, BTC prices are going to hit record high. Keiser began by announcing that he will be a speaker at a future bitcoin event and then carried on saying: “BTC is…
Bitcoin (BTC) scammers have finally failed. A “robocall” fraud was ignored by Hawaiian Electric customers, as the scammers requested them to pay Bitcoin value in exchange for their electricity supply to continue operating. As reported by Hawaiian Electric, from the 70 customers…
During the last twenty four hours, 8 of the top 10 digital assets decreased in value from 3.33% to 7.29%. Bitcoin Cash a loss of 3.32%, in addition TRON and XRP represented a negative shift around 4.34%. Ethereum Classic dropped 6.93%. Furthermore,…
The CEO of the Block.one, EOS co-creator, Brendan Blumer, recently spoke during the Digital Commerce event, spreading mischaracterizations about BTC. He admitted that he sees Bitcoin as entirely transformative, however, the network still has drastic shortcomings. Blumer notes that actually, Bitcoin transactions…
According to a new study, Bitcoin users significantly overpay for commissions, because wallets incorrectly estimate the appropriate fee size. Bit Consultants’ released data shows the discrepancy between the required fees and the fees that users pay. Besides, the last significant growth in…
DataLight predicts that if the growth of the crypto network continues at the same pace, then within ten years, Bitcoin will be ahead of other payment systems, such as Visa and MasterCard. DataLight made such a forecast in a study comparing bitcoin…
A new animated series is released, which is called “Bitcoin and Friends”. The releasion of the 1st episode was a few days ago and it is already available on YouTube. It tells about the life of a lonely bitcoin who is looking…
The price of bitcoin shot up 17,68% on Tuesday morning, April 2, reaching its highest point in four months. CoinGecko data shows bitcoin’s price spiked Tuesday at 05:48 UTC to $4,919,39. At press time, bitcoin’s price has risen 19.27% over a 24-hour…
Bitmain, the Chinese company, decided the release date of the new generation of ASIC miner, Antminer S17. The release be held on April 9, after which the devices will be available to customers around the world. Antminer S17 will continue to be…
Japan Saw A Tenfold Rise In Crypto Money Laundering Cases In 2018 Japan is usually known to be at the forefront of the latest tech innovations, and the FinTech sector isn’t exempt. Currently, Japan ranks as one of the most crypto-friendly jurisdictions…
The Venezuelan government is offering cryptocurrency transferring services. Money transfers will be done using 2 cryptocurrencies – BTC and LTC. This service was launched by Venezuela’s principal regulator of cryptocurrencies, Sunacrip, which previously limited the transfer amount of cryptocurrencis and introduced a…
The American coffee company and coffeehouse chain, Starbucks will integrate cryptocurrency payments until the end of 2019. In the United States, the visitors of Starbucks will be able to pay with Bitcoins. Such an opportunity will appear before the end of 2019,…
Worldwide well-known and useful cryptocurrency, bitcoin was branded by billionaire investor Warren Buffett. This delusion has attracted many hackers. Buffett, at CNBC interview on February 25, told that bitcoin is not rare at all. Buffett mentioned that his negative point of view on…
