The price of the top digital currency is well above the means of many, especially in Africa. A Bitcoin in Nigeria, for example, is now worth over N3 mln. This is a far reach in a country where half of
Month: December 2017
Bitcoin Boom Draws Record Number of Indian Investors According to Exchanges
India-based digital currency exchanges have claimed that the number of Indian investors who registered in their platforms to buy Bitcoin has increased considerably in the past few weeks as the value of the leading cryptocurrency surpassed the $11,000 level on
Malta Bitcoin Schizophrenia: Government and Banks Send Mixed Signals
Featured Malta Financial Services Agency (MFSA) has issued its Discussion Paper on Initial Coin Offerings, Virtual Currencies and related Service Providers, “to present to the industry a proposed policy to be adopted by the MFSA for the regulation
Bitcoin Is an Emerging Systemic Risk
Preston Byrne is an independent consultant and founder of Tomram LLC and the former chief operating officer of Monax Industries, an enterprise blockchain software vendor. Recent news stories make it pretty clear that the new people in bitcoin have no
CryptoKitties Game Launches On The Ethereum Blockchain
CryptoKitties is an interesting new gaming experiment for desktop computers, allowing users to breed, collect and trade virtual cats on the Ethereum Blockchain. Cats and the internet would appear to be synonymous, so it comes as no surprise to
Ethereum Remains Above Key Support After Breaking $500
Along with Bitcoin, Ethereum had a crazy day this week. Although Ethereum had a more predictable correction right to the previous resistance level of 395. We were expecting the pullback because Ethereum tends to have a pullback every time it
Why Slowing ICO Avalanche Benefits Blockchain’s Image
The onset of Blockchain into the world’s financial markets has brought with it many new ideas, introduced rapidly to wide-eyed market participants over the last few years. Despite how far we’ve come, however, all the progress we can currently boast
ICOBox’s Clients Have Raised $200 Million through ICOs
ICOBox, a premier provider of fixed-price SaaS ICO solutions founded earlier in 2017, has helped its clients collect over $200 million via their ICOs in the first five months of its operations. And there’s more to come – a number
New $100 Million Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund to Use XRP
Altcoins TechCrunch and CrunchFund founder Michael Arrington has announced he is going all in on cryptocurrency investments with a new hedge fund called Arrington XRP Capital. As the name suggests, the fund will be managed in Ripple’s
Bitcoin Cash Devs Reveal Mid-Term Roadmap
Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Bigger blocks, shorter block times: those are the biggest takeaways from the mid-term roadmaps released this week by Bitcoin Cash developers. Bigger Blocks & Shorter Intervals Recently,