Bitcoin

Ripple Becomes Largest Altcoin As Bitcoiners Issue Warnings

Ripple (XRP) has overtaken Ethereum as the largest altcoin by market cap in a surge which has divided the cryptocurrency community.<p>After the payment …

A Major Cryptocurrency Platform Has Liquidated Its Customers' Bitcoin Cash for Bitcoin

BitMEX, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency trading platform, has sold all of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) cryptocurrency granted to its customers during the …

Cryptocurrency

The New Revolution in Blockchain Development: Fabric Token

The use of blockchain technology is increasing rapidly across industries. Thanks to the cryptocurrency technology’s ability to create an efficient, …

XRP’s Trajectory for 2018

<i>Up.</i><p>In one word, that is the trajectory of XRP. We know that XRP will continue to grow in value due to the fact that banks and xRapid users have only …

Ben Bernanke

Ripple overtakes bitcoin as third-largest cryptocurrency

In a relatively calm day for cryptocurrencies, most of the largest are down by a few percentage points. Bitcoin, Ethereum, bitcoin cash, and Litecoin are all down, but banking-oriented cryptocurrency Ripple is up by double digits, catapulting it into the No. 3 spot in terms of market capitalization.<p>…

Business

BlockChain Innovators ARK Announce the Release of their Mobile Wallet, Bringing Crypto Freedom to Millions 

<b>Bitcoin Press Release</b>: <i>ARK is happy to announce another huge achievement, with the release of the much awaited ARK Mobile Wallet. Packed full of</i> …

Ten X Co-founder: Long "Crypto Winter" is Coming Before 2020

Advertisement<p>In a recent CNBC Squawk Box interview, host Dan Murphy asked if “there’s another dip to come” for Cryptocurrency. According to his guest …

Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Price Slides Further; Ripple Builds Lead Over Ethereum | Investopedia

Ripple is now the world’s second-most valuable cryptocurrency.<p>It had already overtaken ethereum briefly yesterday before the latter usurped its …

Cryptocurrency

IOTA Cryptocurrency Predictions For 2018

Over the past two months IOTA tokens suddenly became one of the most-talked about cryptocurrencies of 2017. CoinMarketCap estimates IOTA now has a …

Internet of Things

I’m in awe of how far the scams & stupidities around 'blockchain stocks' are going

• <b>Some companies recently changed their names and business models in a shift to blockchain technology, and their stocks have shot up.</b>• <b><br>That these companies get away with this is a sign of just how far the global flood of liquidity has confused speculators and turned them into knee-jerk betting</b> …

Stocks

Bitcoin investors claim the big four banks are freezing their accounts due to cryptocurreny exchanges

Picture: Getty Images<p>Bitcoin investors are claiming Australia’s banks are freezing their accounts and transfers to cryptocurrency exchanges, with a …

Banking

Developer Usurps SegWit2x Moniker for Upcoming Bitcoin Fork

<b>For those new to the discussion, scaling issues have plagued Bitcoin and have led to a handful of different forked currencies that offer varying</b> …

Cryptocurrency

Where some of the weirdest cryptocurrencies of the early 2010s are now

In 2014, as bitcoin rose in value to be worth several hundred dollars, many developers launched their own alternative cryptocurrencies, and ones that came with interesting backstories often grabbed media attention. Some of these coins were for the porn industry, others were for hip hop lovers, and …

Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Investors Are Irrational, and This Figure Proves It

Cryptocurrency investors may be in for a major letdown in 2018.<p>Though we're just about to turn the page on 2017, we can safely say that this year …

Investing

SegWit2x Version 2.0 - a Farce?

If we are to believe what we are told - the Bitcoin Blockchain has forked once again after the revival of SegWit2x.<p>The fork, which was abandoned in …

Satoshi Nakamoto

Blockchain will usher in decentralized markets and even more ICOs in 2018

The coming year no doubt will be just as unpredictable as 2017, as a huge range of tech trends from the cloud and blockchain to machine learning and …

Kaspersky Lab

Avoid These Overrated "Bitcoin" Stocks

Not all that glitters is bitcoin.<p>Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies surged to record highs over the past year, igniting fierce debates about their …

Stocks

Is this Google Chrome Extension Secretly Using Your Device to Mine Cryptocurrency?

With the price of cryptocurrencies reaching new highs in 2017, the incentive for nefarious actors to devise innovative methods of acquiring them is …

Google

Former FDIC Chair Argues against Banning Bitcoin

Advertisement<p>Sheila Bair, former director of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), recently argued that bitcoin shouldn’t be banned …

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Top 10 Companies of the Blockchain Industry in 2017

2017 was definitely the year of Blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin has surged from more than $950 at the beginning of the year to as high as …

Web Design

Blockchain Asset Registries: Entering the Slope of Enlightenment

<i>Juan Antonio Ketterer and Gabriela Andrade specialize in financial markets for the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest source of development</i> …

Ripple Becomes Second Largest Largest Crypto By Market Cap

Altcoins<p><b>Today, the total market capitalization of Ripple exceeded $100 billion for the first time ever. This milestone makes Ripple the first</b> …

Cryptocurrency

Trading Tip `The Wall´

Op-Ed<p><b>In just 3 months, the price of Zclassic (ZCL) has increased by +5,768%. In this post, I’ll give some background to what Zclassic is and try to</b> …

Cryptocurrency

2017: The Year Crypto Became a New Asset Class

<i>Hunter Horsley is the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management, a startup offering a index fund products that track the cryptocurrency asset</i> …

Investing

Bitcoin is going to crash and burn thanks to speculators

During the late ’90s, Silicon Valley venture capitalists and New York City investment bankers used phrases such as “monetizing eyeballs,” “stickiness,” and “B2C” to justify the ridiculous valuations of Internet companies. They claimed conventional methods were inapplicable in valuing the dot-com …

Business

3 Cryptocurrencies That Rose by More Than 100,000% in 2017

One virtual coin skyrocketed almost 1,582,000% this year!<p>As the year comes to a close, we almost can say with certainty that we've witnessed history …

Investing

Ripple cryptocurrency surges as Japanese groups agree to use it

Martin Arnold in London<p>December 29, 2017<p>Ripple is closing in on Ethereum and could become the world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency by market …

Lloyds Banking Group

Monero — An Anonymous CryptoCurrency

Monero — An Anonymous CryptoCurrency<p>Monero vs Bitcoin Overview<p>Let’s face it. Bitcoin is traceable.<p>You can send bitcoin only by literally pointing to …

Cryptography

Digital residency pays off big for Estonia

Estonia is expected to get a 100-to-one-euro return on investment for its e-Residency program, which lets anybody start a business from afar. It is …

Business

Schnorr Signatures Might Be Bitcoin’s Next Step Forward

December 29, 2017 · 11:00 pm<p><b>The Schnorr signatures algorithm promises to help to address one of the most pressing problems affecting Bitcoin today:</b> …