On Friday, February 9, I had the opportunity to attend a cryptocurrency talk hosted by my school’s computer science club. This event was just one of a plethora of talks that have been taking place at colleges and universities throughout the world. My college can best be described as a private, liberal arts college in the US with a student body of just under 1,500. The Computer Science department is made up of only four professors and a few dozen CS majors. While the school certainly doesn’t resemble Berkeley or New York University, it is worthwhile to recognize the growth of cryptocurrency taking place everywherePowered by WPeMatico
Over the past few weeks, bitcoin markets have slid from the near $20K price region all the way down to $6K territory and there’s one crowd who is loving it every time bitcoin’s value dumps. The group called ‘Buttcoiners’ stem from the Reddit forum /r/buttcoin, and anytime something bad happens to bitcoin this band of […]
The U.S. Marshals revealed this week it completed the auction that saw the sale of 3,813 bitcoins ($31Mn USD) on January 22. The bitcoins were seized from various civil forfeitures and criminal cases involving U.S. law enforcement agencies like Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Also read: Weiss Ratings Defends its Decision to […]
Looking back the development of Bitcoin in the past 9 years, there have been problems such as privacy protection, slow transaction speed and high transfer fees due to increased users and network effects. The scalability debate in recent years has greatly slowed the development of the Bitcoin community.
The luxury Italian sports car, Lamborghini, otherwise referred to as the “Lambo” has become a ‘holy grail’ for some cryptocurrency enthusiasts. As ridiculous as $200K+ automobile may sound to some individuals after bitcoin’s rise in 2017 that dream is now attainable for a lot of early adopters. Also Read: Australian Freeze: Big Aussie Banks Denying Bitcoiners […]
All of us were thrilled by the MoneyToken’s advances and successes recently.
Cryptocurrency markets are starting to slowly inch back upwards after many digital assets lost roughly 40-70 percent of the values they held two months ago. Bitcoin core markets (BTC/USD) reached a low of $5,920 this past Monday, but as the weekend approaches the price has regained strength hovering around $8,250-8,450. Moreover, the price of bitcoin […]
This Wednesday Grayscale Investments, the sponsor of the Bitcoin Trust (OTCQX: GBTC) has announced a new cryptocurrency investment vehicle is coming. The company plans to launch the ‘Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund’ (the “Fund”) that intends to hold the top digital assets within the cryptocurrency economy. Also Read: Phony PBOC Email Sent to U.S. Media Aimed […]
According to reports on Tuesday, a large quantity of U.S. media outlets were sent an email from an individual claiming to be a representative of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC). The message contained a phony invitation to a press conference between the media, the PBOC, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and said […]
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets have been extremely bearish over the past six weeks straight, and many investors are waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel. Last year around this time we reported on a variety of cryptocurrency dignitaries, pundits, and bigwigs and they revealed to us that their outlook for 2017 was […]