Month: November 2017

In January this year, $1,000 was the milestone Bitcoin owners were eager to reach. The digital currency hit that, overcame it and increased ten-fold to over $10,000. This year has been filled with good news for digital currency, from another Asian market boom, to Bitcoin’s integration with the Square App, the launching of regulated futures markets and growing mainstream adoption. Despite being laughed off for years, Bitcoin is only just beginning to become a force to be reckoned with in Read more …

Mining digital currency is certainly an attractive source of income. Plug in the GPU cards and let the digital gold pour. However, mining bitcoin alone consumes 0.13% of the world’s energy consumption. Fuelling such consumption with anything but renewable energy would have a devastating effect on the environment. Fortunately, more and more mining facilities are switching to hydro and wind powered energy sources according to the latest Bitcoin News. Europe’s largest Bitcoin ATMs provider and digital currency exchange Cointed is Read more …

Expert Blog is Cointelegraph’s new series of articles by crypto industry leaders. It covers everything from Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies to ICO regulation and investment analysis. If you want to become our guest author and get published on Cointelegraph, please send us an email at mike@cointelegraph.com. Broadly stated, a 1031 exchange (also called a like-kind exchange or a Starker) is a swap of one business or investment asset for another. Under US tax code, most swaps are taxable as sales. In Read more …

CRYPTO20’s goal is to bring peace-of-mind cryptocurrency investment to mainstream investors. It is an index fund that holds and autonomously rebalances a data science optimized portfolio of the top 20 cryptocurrencies. The fund has recently surpassed the $35m milestone in its ongoing tokensale. Monday (27/11/2017) saw the CRYPTO20 fund perform its second successful divestment/rebalancing procedure. A period of exceptional growth has led to the total fund value exceeding $35m with a NAV (net asset value) of over $1.15 per token. Read more …

Willy Woo sounds like a high stakes altcoin gambler. He’s often looking for insane 100x to even 1,000x gains, and he’s willing to stomach the kind of volatility that could wipe out three-quarters of his portfolio’s value over a couple of weeks. And while everyday investors might be bewildered by those concepts, it’s not too surprising for Woo, given his background. While now best known for his innovative philosophies on cryptocurrency, Woo got his start in the trading world buying derivatives during Read more …

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. Recently a British Chef on holiday in Greece was charged £8000 when her phone connected to a Turkish network. Such incidents are not isolated, there is also the case of Daniel Jeffery who was smacked with a £18,000 bill after Read more …

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. After becoming one of the fastest selling German IPOs in the past fifteen years and having their listed stocks on Frankfurt Stock Exchange trading at 400% above issue price in just three months, where does NAGA go from here? Announcing Read more …

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. This is a submitted sponsored story. CCN urges readers to conduct their own research with due diligence into the company, product or service mentioned in the content below. A little-known issue with wallet security came to light after a hack on one of the most well-known cryptocurrency wallet security companies lost around $30 million dollars in July, 2017. The funds, totaling approximately 150,000 Ethereum (ETH) were stolen from Read more …

News This week the Dublin-based firm Circle Financial revealed a new investment app is coming out in 2018. There’s currently a sneak peak of the “Circle Invest” app that shows multiple cryptocurrency support and a picture of the user interface. See also: How to Buy Bitcoin When You’re Underage    Circle is Excited to Release a New Crypto-Based App for Retail Investors Circle financial is a cryptocurrency-based firm that was launched back in 2013 and operated a service Read more …

Cointelegraph has been monitoring the ongoing BlockShow Asia conference, and several announcements have been made by Blockchain specialists around the world. One such announcement comes from one of the smallest independent areas in the world, Gibralter. The Gibralter Stock Exchange (GSX) is now offering the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), a new and way for crypto investors to take part in the rapidly growing cryptocurrency markets. With passport rights throughout Europe, and already having the approval of European regulators, Gibralter is Read more …

Mindshare, the global media agency, recently signed an important partnership agreement with Zilliqa, the Singapore-based Blockchain technology company, to begin testing Blockchain solutions for fake news, data security and a potential industry-wide token system for validation. Mindshare is a massive company with 7,000 employees and $31 bln in revenue, and their involvement with Blockchain technology will make huge waves in the coming months and years. Cointelegraph sat down for an exclusive interview with R Gowthaman, the Chief Strategy Officer at Read more …