A New Line of Sex Toys Lets You ‘Get Off’ With the Price of Bitcoin

Bitcoin markets and the overall value of cryptocurrencies have been going crazy with price swings over the past few months. To add a little more excitement to following the charts, a porn firm called, Camsoda, offers an interactive sex toy that reacts with the price changes of ethereum, litecoin, and bitcoin. Now individuals can literally have sex … Read more

Indian Couple Asked to Be Gifted Bitcoin at Wedding

An Indian couple requested for friends and family to gift them bitcoin at their wedding earlier this month. The couple, Prashant Sharma and Niti Shree, are the founders of a startup in the technology industry and hold high hopes for the future of bitcoin and distributed ledger technology. Also Read: India’s Crypto Crackdown: Wealthy Bitcoiners Targeted, … Read more

A Ledger X Bitcoin Contract is Still Pegged for $50K Amid This Week’s Price Decline

Bitcoin’s price has been in a slump this week after reaching record highs in the USD $19K territory. Since then the price has drifted into the $13K, region losing $6,000 in gains this week. Although the price has seen better days, an unknown trader utilizing the Ledger X options market purchased a contract that predicts … Read more

Markets Update: Major Crypto Markets Dump in Unison

The majority of crypto markets appear to have regained correlation with bitcoin, with BCH, ETH, LTC, DASH and many other major markets dumping in unison with BTC. For bitcoin, today’s retrace down to test the $11,000 USD line comprises the sixth consecutive day that BTC has lost value after testing the $20,000 area, whereas BCH … Read more

Popular Chat App Kakao’s Exchange Upbit Claims Number One Spot in South Korea

Kakao’s cryptocurrency exchange Upbit now claims to be the largest crypto exchange by volume in South Korea, one of the top three markets globally. Listing over 120 coins and leveraging Kakao Talk’s massive user base, Upbit currently facilitates an average daily trading volume of 5 trillion won. Also read: South Korea Clarifies Position After Reports of … Read more

Markets Update: Bitcoin Price Continues to Feel Bearish Sentiment

The price of bitcoin (BTC) has been suffering from a bearish decline since it reached $19,600 USD across global markets and had touched a low of $15,299 on December 21. Over the past two days, most of the other alternative digital asset markets were stable or made some significant gains. However, now that BTC markets … Read more

Market Optimism Declines as Bitcoin Futures Euphoria Ends

This week it seems the euphoria from the introduction of CME Group and Cboe’s bitcoin-based futures markets has fizzled. Since both companies announced launching their futures products, the price of bitcoin gained over three times its value in just 45 days. Since the derivatives markets have begun the futures products’ volumes has been lackluster, and … Read more

Japanese Entertainment Giant DMM Unveils Details of Crypto Exchange to Launch Next Month

Japanese entertainment conglomerate DMM Group, the operator of popular e-commerce site DMM.com with 27 million members, is preparing to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. 7 cryptocurrencies, 14 trading pairs, and margin trading will be offered. Also read: South Korea Clarifies Position After Reports of Possible Ban on All Crypto Transactions DMM’s Crypto Exchange Opening January Japanese e-commerce … Read more

The Philippine Central Bank Considers Regulation Standards for Bitcoin

The Philippine central bank, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the country’s regulators are planning to create regulatory standards for digital assets like bitcoin. This week the BSP Deputy Governor, Chuchi Fonacier, said the bank is working with the Securities and Exchange Commission in order to create regulatory guidelines for Philippine businesses and exchanges who … Read more

‘7 Million Transactions a Second’ — Research Paper Declares 1TB Blocks Feasible

This week a research paper was published by the founder of Lokad, a quantitative supply chain software company, and it details how terabyte blocks (TB) implemented into the bitcoin cash (BCH) blockchain could be “feasible both technically and economically.” Also Read: Thomson Reuters Adds Bitcoin Cash to Eikon Platform Research Paper Describes How Terabyte Blocks … Read more