A massive hack on a cryptocurrency had a knock-on effect in the last day or so, with bitcoin dropping from its record high level and ether also falling as a result. Tether is a company with a market capitalisation of $676 million …
The latest bitcoin activity has seen the price of the cryptocurrency shoot up to yet another record high. This time, the value of bitcoin has passed $8,000 ($6.038) for the first time in its history. One of the possible reasons given for …
The new bitcoin gold cryptocurrency has got off to an interesting start in life. It just went live on the 12th of November and has already been through some turbulent times. Yet, many analysts believe that the toughest part is over and …
The last few days have seen bitcoin prices vary massively, as large trading volumes have driven the market on a bit of a wild ride. 24 hour trading volumes reached an all-time high of over $26 billion over the weekend. This is …
A recent blog post from developers has revealed that bitcoin gold will go live over the coming weekend. The official date and time for this change will be the 12th of November at 7pm UTC. This latest fork in the cryptocurrency was …
The prospect of a controversial upgrade that would see the cryptocurrency split in two has recently caused major disagreements in the bitcoin community. The SegWit2x fork was planned for the middle of November but an increasing number of developers had expressed their …
Speculation around exactly how high bitcoin prices could go has been fuelled by a note issued by a pair of Goldman Sachs technical analysts. In it, Sheba Jafari and Jack Abramowitz point out that the current signs are that the digital currency …
Despite massive price increases in recent times, an investment expert has said that people are still underestimating bitcoin. The person who made this claim is Peter Thiel, who is a billionaire American venture capitalist and investor. He is one of the co-founders …
The new hard fork that occurred in bitcoin this week has resulted in the arrival of bitcoin gold. Yet, analysts are still unsure whether this split in the digital currency is a good thing or not. Indeed, following the hard fork the …
The economic woes suffered in countries such as Zimbabwe and Venezuela have led to people turning to bitcoin as a possible solution. In Zimbabwe, the hyperinflation in 2008 led to the African country using the US dollar as its main currency. However, …