Month: November 2017

Any official study conducted related to cryptocurrencies is worth keeping an eye on. While they don’t always tell the whole story, the statistics are fun to look at. A new study by Cambridge University shows how the cryptocurrency ecosystem has evolved. More specifically, it shows this is still a very niche market right now. That isn’t a big surprise by any means, though. In fact, the statistics are pretty intriguing overall. According to Cambridge University, there are up to 5.8 Read more …

Things are really starting to heat up now in the bitcoin price and, over the next few hours, only one thing is going to be in everybody’s minds – can price reach $10,000? We’ve seen some incredible runs over the last few months driven by nothing more than improved sentiment and if we see a break above $10,000, we are almost certainly going to see some continuation on the break and a bit of follow-through towards, say, $10,100. Whether price Read more …

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Billionaire hedge fund legend and former Fortress executive Mike Novogratz believes the bitcoin price will “easily reach” $40,000 by 2018. On CNBC’s Fast Money, Novogratz expressed his optimism towards both bitcoin and Ethereum in the mid-term. Novogratz, who has predicted the price of bitcoin to achieve the $10,000 mark before the end of 2017, stated that bitcoin price will quadruple by the end of 2018, and the Read more …

Nolan Bauerle is a former researcher and writer for the Canadian Senate Banking Committee, for which he drafted a 2015 report on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. He currently heads CoinDesk research division. CoinDesk is today announcing the release of its latest deep-dive report on the state of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. The most recent of a series of quarterly updates that began in 2014, our State of Blockchain Q3 2017 report includes over 100 graphs that tell the story of Read more …

Featured The resignation of Robert Mugabe from President of Zimbabwe after four decades  appears to have spurred its citizens even further into the waiting digital arms of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, and to a new global high of $17,875. After years of theory and debate, the decentralized currency has its real-time case study as a refuge for those seeking to store their wealth in a medium that will hold its value or better.  Also read: Venture Read more …

Bitcoin continues its phenomenal surge in the financial trading market as it already reached the $9,000 per token mark as of late November 2017. The leading cryptocurrency was also traded at $10,000 in some markets. While international investors still waiting for $10K, Indian #Bitcoin Prices are already above $10,800 (INR 7,00,000) !!#India #Bitcoin $BTC @Unocoin@zebpay @PocketBitsIndia @Coinsecure pic.twitter.com/v71HrhUFvG — Bitcoin Bullet (@Bitcoin_Bullet) November 26, 2017 The sustained upward trajectory of the most popular cryptocurrency has continued to baffle both the Read more …

This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com does not endorse nor support this product/service. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. The long-anticipated BANKEX token sale is live, starting today. BANKEX’s breakthrough technology has already generated a lot of buzz in the crypto community. A Top 50 FinTech company, which is ranked “Top-9 most anticipated ICOs Read more …

Confido has recently released a statement on its website claiming that the money raised by the company in its initial coin offering (ICO) is being kept in a trust fund until further notice. The authenticity of the said letter, along with its legal representative is still under question considering that the company’s whole social media accounts, along with its website, have been previously taken down. In the said letter, the supposed legal representative claimed that the people behind the Confido Read more …

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Nigeria’s financial sector insurance regulator has warned its citizens of the lack of insurance cover to any risks related to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. The Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has moved to warn retail investors that the authority will not afford any insurance cover to those dealing with cryptocurrencies, or indeed any digital currencies not issued by the country’s central bank. Speaking during a two-day workshop addressing Read more …

Not a day goes by in the cryptocurrency world without major Tether drama. This company has made such a massive impression, people are genuinely scared of what they might come up with next. It seems one of their “prints” of fresh capital has been borked. More specifically, one particular transaction for 15 million OMNI was deemed invalid. This is a rather interesting development, although it’s unclear what is happening exactly. This particular transaction by Tether is pretty disconcerting on many Read more …

The House of Lords, the upper chamber of the U.K. parliament, has released a report stressing the opportunities for distributed ledger technologies (DLT) across government services. Saying the technology could have possible applications across sectors including customs and immigration, national security and public safety, healthcare, cybersecurity and more, the report suggests that the use of DLT could change the relationship between the government and citizens via its decentralized trust mechanisms. The U.K. government, the report urges, should prioritize research into DLT’s Read more …