Category: Cryptocurrency News

As Olympians in Pyeongchang, Korea perform to huge audiences in the popular events of skying, snowboarding and hockey. Less popular US lugers have turned to Bitcoin to fuel their sleds. Bitcoin funds US luge team The USA Luge Foundation began campaigning for donations of Bitcoin using Medium since December of 2017. The team is the first Olympic group to set up its own Bitcoin wallet to accept donations. USA luge marketing director and former double silver medalists Gary Sheer said that matching Bitcoin to Read more …

Midweek trading is looking good from an Asian perspective as most cryptocurrencies have shown positive price action this morning. Bitcoin is still holding steady, up around 1.5% at $8,840, and this has had a positive influence on a lot of the altcoins. A couple are showing very strong growth today and those are Ethereum Classic and Litecoin Looking at the Coinmarketcap charts shows that ETC is currently on a flyer, up 24% from this time yesterday. The Ethereum forked coin Read more …

It’s like the early days of bitcoin all over again. Comprised of invite-only chat channels, alien terminology and warning signs at every turn, the nascent ecosystem springing up around Lightning Network, the scaling technology that could end up having the greatest impact yet on bitcoin’s capacity, is to date, hopelessly difficult to operate. “Going to be blunt,” one developer wrote, “if you don’t know how to compile something, you probably will have a lot more struggles and a lot less coins.” Read more …

Key Highlights ETH price is slowly moving higher and is currently trading above $830 against the US Dollar. There is a major bullish trend line forming with support at $832 on the hourly chart of ETH/USD (data feed via SimpleFX). The pair is likely to grind higher and it could even trade above the $860 resistance in the near term. Ethereum price is slightly bullish against the US Dollar and Bitcoin. ETH/USD is eyeing further gains with supports on the Read more …

Deal with ads and pop-ups or become a corporate crypto-mining minion. These will be your choices from now on when you go to Salon’s website. Add free for miners In a bid to replace revenue lost from the number of browsers who have enabled ad-blocking programs Salon will now give you a choice, turn off your ad-blocking software or “suppress ads.” By choosing the latter option viewers won’t be bothered by ads but will hand over part of their computers processing  Read more …

Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price is currently consolidating, forming higher lows and lower highs inside a triangle pattern. Price is bouncing off support and might be due for a test of resistance soon. Technical indicators are also suggesting that the bounce could take place, possibly even leading to an upside break. Bitcoin price is finding support at the bottom of its triangle consolidation and may be due for a move past the resistance if buyers are strong enough. Technical Read more …

Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Jesse Powell, co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has some words of wisdom for investors. While securities regulators are looking for ways to protect investors from any fraudulent activity that might arise in unscrupulous ICOs, Powell, while speaking to CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Dubai, put the burden to investors. But he also offered a bullish take on the cryptocurrency market Read more …

Yet another day brings yet another tale of woe about mining malware. Back in the day we had viruses and worms to worry about, and then came a surge of spyware, today the hackers want your computer to mine them more Monero. The latest victim is messenger app Telegram which has been exploited to run mining malware. According to security researchers at Kaspersky Lab a zero day vulnerability in Telegram’s desktop app has been exploited to deliver multipurpose malware. A Read more …

The Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) plans to launch a blockchain-based clearing and settlement platform for token sales, it announced today. The initiative will see the CSE move to list so-called “Security Token Offerings,” through which blockchain-based assets which are explicitly securities would be offered and sold. The blockchain-powered platform represents a new service area for the exchange, which has been operating since 2003. Companies will be able to use the platform to issue traditional equity and debt through tokenized securities, Read more …