Month: December 2017

2017 will go down as the biggest year in Bitcoin’s history – with meteoric highs paving the way for the preeminent cryptocurrency bursting into mainstream consciousness. December will forever be remembered for Bitcoin’s massive price correction after hitting the $20,000

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. The bitcoin price has slightly recovered to above $13,500 as the market valuation of Ripple dropped by $20 billion overnight. Major Shift in Trend Since December 30,

This is an entry in CoinDesk’s Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 series. “If I talk like this, am I loud enough to be heard?” It’s an ironic statement from a man who became famous without saying anything at all. Steps

Technology Considering the persistent issues with the system at the moment, fast and cheap bitcoin (BTC) transactions might sound like a distant dream, but its realization might be just around the corner. The first transaction using real

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Bitcoin investors in Australia have claimed that major banks including National Australia Bank, ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac Banking Corporation, have started to freeze

Bitcoin certainly has had a wild ride in 2017. Its price has risen from around $1,000 at the start of the year to over $13,000 at the time of writing. At one point, less than a month ago, you’d have

The recent abduction of UK-based Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange Exmo Operator Pavel Lerner has demonstrated the importance of financial privacy for cryptocurrency users. Earlier this week, BBC initially reported that Lerner kidnapped outside of his office in Kiev, Ukraine, on

This is an entry in CoinDesk’s Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 series. Any publicity is good publicity, the saying goes. And with a disruptive technology like cryptocurrency, sometimes even negative comments from a powerful incumbent can be bullish signals …

In a year of soaring cryptocurrency prices and countless initial coin offerings, it’s perhaps unsurprising that, over the course of 2017, regulators worldwide stepped in to define how they would oversee what had been to date a legally murky environment.

Setting aside a massive December price correction, Bitcoin has pushed its way into the minds of ordinary people all over the world. Google stats for 2017 have Bitcoin as the second most searched news term of the year, as everyone

This is an entry in CoinDesk’s Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 series. Strange as it might seem, Charlie Lee stills pays for parking. On the sun-streaked streets of San Mateo, California, the man affectionately known as “Satoshi lite” feeds the