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Bitcoin (BTC) Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has shot up to $6,500. This past week has been an up-and-down journey for the cryptocurrency, with price swings from $6,400 all the way down to $6,090, but for the time being, bitcoin appears to be exhibiting bullish activity and expanding its horizons. Some of bitcoin’s … Read more
ICOs have a bad reputation at the moment, and some would say this is for a very good reason. Last year there were almost a thousand token sales, with 142 of these projects never getting off the ground. Another 389 of these saw their founders either take the assets and run, or die off due … Read more
Cryptocurrencies are getting more attention every day, it seems, as the Financial Stability Board (FSB) announced on Monday that it had put together a standardized framework with which to monitor cryptocurrency assets. This body was called upon by the G20 Ministers of Finance and the Central Bank Governors to report by the end of July … Read more
At the time of writing, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) was sitting at around the $6,510 mark and has jumped approximately 14% after finding support at the six-monthly low level of $5,790. While we did expect a bounce from this support zone, buyers should beware the bull trap. In our view, this is not the … Read more
There was a time when even the slightest hint that a new development was taking place in the crypto industry would drive prices up instantly. Reddit accepting Bitcoin was enough to drive the price of Bitcoin up by hundreds of dollars in just a few hours; rumors that Coinbase would list XRP would send the … Read more
Bitcoin prices back in 2013 touched a high of $1,236 per BTC on December 4, and following that spike the price dropped for more than a year, all the way to $225 per coin on June 1, 2015. Last year in 2017 the price of BTC ran up higher, but this time reached $19,600 per … Read more
Chris Concannon, the president of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), the world’s biggest derivatives market behind CME Group, has warned investors in tokens and initial coin offering (ICO) projects of an upcoming two-part regulatory reckoning. ICO Investors Could be in Trouble In an exclusive interview with Frank Chaparro from Business Insider, Concannon said that … Read more
Felix Hufeld, chief of the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), the government’s main financial agency, stated in a speech at a conference held in Berlin that blockchain technology has the potential to turn the traditional finance industry upside down. Optimistic Long-Term Vision Despite the recent correction of the cryptocurrency market and the drop in the … Read more
Many analysts and mainstream media outlets including Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal attributed the recent drop in the Bitcoin price from $7,500 to $6,700 to the hacking attack suffered by Coinrail, a minor cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea. However, the reasoning behind attributing the latest correction to Coinrail is incorrect, given that Coinrail is … Read more
Many analysts and mainstream media outlets including Bloomberg and WSJ have attributed the recent decline in the bitcoin price from $7,500 to $6,700 to the hacking attack suffered by Coinrail, a minor cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea. However, the reasoning behind the attribution of the latest correction to Coinrail is incorrect, given that Coinrail is … Read more
