Month: August 2017

This week the student loan organization, Lend EDU, published a report that details virtual currency company complaints are up 5,971 percent this year according to data pulled from the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau database. Also Read: Bitcoin Is Becoming a

Famed investor Andrew Left, who makes his money betting that the shares of companies are overvalued and due for a fall, has a fresh target in his sights: a bitcoin fund. Left makes the case that Bitcoin Investment Trust GBTC,

The state of Illinois has begun work on a new blockchain pilot focused on the digitization of birth certificates. Working with blockchain identity startup Evernym, the tools being designed would, if put into production, allow parents and doctors present at the

When charted, bitcoin’s rapid gains resemble how stocks surged into the tech bubble before collapsing. David Ader, chief macro strategist at Informa Financial Intelligence, matched a graph of the Nasdaq Telecommunications Index at its peak in 2000 to bitcoin’s five-year

Bitcoin’s price briefly passed above the $4,800 mark for the first time today. According to data from CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), the price of the cryptocurrency hit a high of $4,802.74, before falling back to levels seen over the past

Eight days. That’s how long it took bitcoin BTCUSD, +3.11% back in April 2013, to rise from $100 for a single bitcoin to $200. Fast forward four years and the cryptocurrency has reached an all-time high of $4,791.75 and has

BTC-e, the bitcoin exchange charged by US authorities last month with a host of money laundering crimes, has launched a new website weeks after its original one was seized by law enforcement. The site is accessible through the domain btc-e.nz, though it appears

Chinese mining pool F2Pool no longer supports the controversial scaling agreement Segwit2x. Though the proposal has garnered support from many large bitcoin companies and the majority of mining pools, many take issue with its aim to boost bitcoin capacity by

Blockchain-born companies understand that they must align with all values of this technology, and strive to be: democratic, open-source, honest and fair. These values must be present in all aspects of their business – communication can’t be an exception. If

On Aug. 30, Ernst & Young (EY) launched its newest project dubbed “Tesseract” for autonomous vehicle fleet management. The firm is one of the leading providers of assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services worldwide. The integrated mobility platform is designed

Several major banks have joined a project called Utility Settlement Coin (USC) that is intended to facilitate the issuance by central banks around the world of currencies using Blockchain technology. The USC platform will also make it easier for international