In this section you will find all news, analysis and forecasts related to bitcoin.
BITPAY: “95% OF THE COMPANY’S PAYMENTS ARE MADE IN BITCOIN” Cryptocurrency operator BitPay carries out almost all of their transactions using bitcoins. This was stated by the General Director Stephen Pair. He said: “95% of our payments are made in bitcoin.” While…
ARGENTINA AND PARAGUAY HAD THEIR FIRST TRANSACTION WITH THE PAYMENT IN BITCOINS Argentina announced the completion of the first transaction to export products to Paraguay using Bitcoin as a means of payment. The load of pesticides and fumigation of products has become…
FORBES: “BITCOIN IS REALLY MONEY” One of the authors of Forbes expressed the opinion that bitcoin is an excellent substitute for Fiat money and has all the properties of traditional financial assets. He explained why bitcoin can be a great unit of…
BRAZILIAN TRADER ACCIDENTALLY BOUGHT BTC AT THE RATE OF $19 400 One of the cryptocurrency traders in Brazil accidentally bought BTC at a price much higher than the market price. On one not the most popular Brazilian cryptocurrency platform TemBTC a trader…
BARRY SILBERT: MOST CRYPTOCURRENCIES WILL DEPRECIATE A lot of crypto-currencies will not be able to survive the current situation in the market, most digital money will become worthless, believes Barry Silbert, CEO of Digital Currency Group. In an interview with CNBC, he…
BINANCE COIN HAS ESTABLISHED A HISTORICAL MAXIMUM IN PAIR WITH BITCOIN On Monday, February 11th, the native token of the Binance exchange updated the historical high against bitcoin, rising in price to 0.0026880 BTC. It was the highest rate BNB against BTC…
BITCOIN SUPPORT IS ADDED TO COINBASE WALLET Cryptocurrency wallet “Coinbase Wallet” was launched about six months ago, but only now the US cryptocurrency exchange has decided to add support for bitcoin. “Our goal is to create the world’s best cryptocurrency wallet for…
WHY BITCOIN PRICE HAS FALLEN. TRUSTEE OF MT.GOX SOLD COINS FOR $318 MILLION The Trustee of the exchange Mt.Gox Nobuaki Kobayashi was able to sell Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash of $318 million through the platform BitPoint, according to documents related to proceedings…
VENEZUELA AGAIN BREAKS RECORDS IN BTC TRANSACTIONS AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW REGULATORY NORMS Once again, Venezuela is breaking records in BTC trading, continuing to attract citizens in the light of economic chaos, despite new regulatory measures providing for fines of up…
QUADRIGACX HAS NEVER HAD ENOUGH BTC TO PAY OFF ALL CUSTOMERS Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX is unable to pay its customers the lost $190 millions, because, most likely, it has never had such an amount. This is evidenced by the results of…
TWITTER CEO: BITCOIN WILL BECOME THE SINGLE CURRENCY OF THE INTERNET During the popular podcast of Joe Rogan “Joe Rogan Experience”, General Director of the social network Twitter and American payment company Square Cash, Jack Dorsey has once again confirmed his opinion…
CALIFORNIA NURSE ACCUSED OF SELLING OPIOIDS FOR BITCOINS A California nurse appeared in Federal court in Sacramento due to charges of selling illegal drugs through a darknet for 200 BTC, under the nickname “Farmacy41”. Carrie Alaine Markis is accused of selling drugs: it is…
BLOOMBERG: BITCOIN PRICE EXPECTS SHORT-TERM RALLY Soon the price of bitcoin will start a short-term cycle of increase, says Bloomberg. In their opinion, this is indicated by the low value of the GTI Global Strength Technical Indicator and trading at a level…
HEAD OF CHICAGO BOARD OPTIONS EXCHANGE: CRYPTOCURRENCY MARKET NEEDS BITCOIN-ETN CBOE Director Edward Tilly believes that the cryptocurrency market does not have enough existing bitcoin futures-they need to be supplemented with exchange notes based on cryptocurrencies. To continue the growth of the…
LEDGERX HAS SUBMITTED A BITCOIN “INDEX OF FEAR” The platform for trading and processing digital assets LedgerX announced the public launch of an analogue of the “index of fear” in the crypto-currency market. The new index, called LXVX, measures the expected volatility…
LEDGERX WILL TRACK THE VOLATILITY OF THE BITCOIN MARKET The cryptocurrency derivatives exchange LedgerX has launched the LedgerX Volatility Index (LXVX), which tracks the expected volatility of bitcoin. The index is based on the data of options traded on LedgerX. Operating officer…
QTUM PLATFORM ADDED THE FUNCTION OF ATOMIC SWAPS WITH BTC Qtum service has added the function of atomic swaps, and now users can directly exchange different cryptocurrencies. This was possible thanks to the technology of the Hashed TimeLock Contracts (HTLC). Atomic swaps – technology that…
WINKLEVOSS BROTHERS ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP BITCOIN ETF The founders of the Gemini exchange brothers Tyler and Cameron Winkelvoss “determined to make a bitcoin ETF a reality.” They said this during a session of Ask Me Anything on Reddit. According…
EXCHANGE KRAKEN RECEIVED 475 REQUESTS FROM THE AUTHORITIES OVER THE PAST YEAR Kraken has published an infographic with statistics regarding the complaints received from law enforcement agencies and regulators for 2018. According to the data presented, last year the number of requests…
YEAR OF BITCOIN IN NUMBERS AND EVENTS After taking off in 2017, bitcoin spent a year disappointing crypto investors: from a record $20,000, the cryptocurrency fell below $4,000. Let’s see what happened with bitcoin from January 1 to the end of December….
