Last year Motherboard gained access to a massive, secretive Bitcoin mine housed within a repurposed factory in the Liaoning Province in rural northeast China.
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Last year Motherboard gained access to a massive, secretive Bitcoin mine housed within a repurposed factory in the Liaoning Province in rural northeast China.
Goldman Sachs: Growing dissatisfaction with regulated monetary systems and the current banking infrastructures. Digital currencies should be thought of as low/zero return or hedge-like assets, akin to gold or certain other metals.
Bitcoin tumbles after South Korea plans to ban cryptocurrency trading. The tough stance triggered a selloff of the cryptocurrency on both local and offshore exchanges.
Shares of the 130-year old company soared 120% after it announced it’s adopting blockchain technology and creating its own digital currency – the KodakCoin.
List of all 13 Bitcoin (BTC) hard forks by the end of 2017. If you held BTC on an exchange or on a hosted wallet service, it’s up to the exchange or service as to if you will be provided coins from a hard fork.
China is allegedly shutting down bitcoin mining. With far, far fewer people mining Bitcoin, there won’t be nearly as many Bitcoins to meet demand.
This time everything different? Why this bubble is not bursting anytime soon...
You’ve probably heard that Ripple (abbreviated as XRP) has soared, more than tripling since Christmas. The overall market cap for XRP (i.e. the combined value of every single token) now exceeds $140 billion.
Forecast: Bitcoin's Potential Value: $4 Million/coin
The financial mogul Michael Novogratz, a former Fortress Investment Group executive, stated back in September that he planned to start a...
Pantera Capital’s Morehead predicts Bitcoin price will drop 50% next week. But: He remains optimistic about bitcoin as a whole, and described digital currencies as “digital gold.”
A friend of mine bought some Bitcoin in 2010 and stored it on a laptop. Then he threw the laptop away… along with all the Bitcoin. And there’s no way to get it back.
Pricetarget: If Bitcoin reaches the total investment value of gold, it can reach about $142,000 to $150,000.
Billionaire Bitcoin advocate, Michael Novogratz: Pricetarget 50.000 by 2018!
Reports that Nice Hash, the largest crypto-mining marketplace, has been hacked with over 4,000 bitcoins worth over $50 million stolen.
Bitcoin's price is skyrocketing because of high demand and low supply. But as Bitcoin's total value grows, the risk of a selloff increases -- and that risk may spread to other markets.
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (CME) has announced its official Bitcoin futures contracts.
Down or offline, too much traffic, too many trades: According to multiple reports, exchanges such as Coinbase, GDAX, Gemini, Bitstamp, Kraken, Bitfinex, and others had issues with their websites during the day.
Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, believes the popular cryptocurrency may not be “viable”. "So it seems to me it ought to be outlawed. It doesn’t serve any socially useful function."