Bitcoin Price Watch: Currency Stands Firm at $9,300

Bitcoin is holding steady at $9,300. It’s a good sign that bitcoin can remain firm over the weekend, and $10,000 may not be too far off the mark. The largest rewards are now being witnessed in mining. It was recently speculated how profitable mining could truly be if bitcoin’s price remained under $8,600. Figures like … Read more

CFTC Aims to End Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dumps With a Bounty Program

Pump-and-dump schemes are nothing new in the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Such scams and hype cycles come around virtually every other week. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is all too aware of such developments. As such, the agency has created a bounty program meant to encourage whistle-blowers to expose these schemes. Ending Crypto Pump-and-dumps … Read more

Bitcoin.org Reverts Back to ‘Fast’ and ‘Low Fee’ Descriptions on Front Page

This week after a few months of controversy, the owners of Bitcoin.org reverted its descriptions about what Bitcoin is on the website’s front page back to “fast peer-to-peer transactions” and “low processing fees” after removing the descriptions this past January. The front page descriptions were changed by the website’s co-owner, a pseudonym called ‘Cobra Bitcoin,’ … Read more

Billionaire Investor and Former ‘Shark’ Kevin Harrington Is Bringing Pitches to the Blockchain

There’s a lot that goes into preparing a pitch to an investor, whether it’s the ‘sharks’ on Shark Tank or the ‘dragons’ on Dragons’ Den. You have to worry about scheduling travel arrangements, hotel reservations, venue locations, meals, and of course, the actual pitch. But that’s outdated, inefficient, and burdensome. It’s time the entrepreneurial space evolved, … Read more

The SEC is Investigating Cryptocurrency Activities – Here’s what it means for the future of ICO’s

Yes, sure, the heavy hand of the government may move slow compared to the pace of blockchain innovation. But when it connects with its target – it really hits home – causing widespread impact and implication to the industries, companies and people that operate within them. Well the hand of the SEC has begun to … Read more

Bitcoin Cash Meetups Grow Wildly Across the Globe

Over the past few months, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network has grown immensely as far as infrastructure support, merchant adoption, and the development of interesting on-chain applications. Another metric that’s been growing wildly is the significant increase of BCH focused meetups popping up in countries worldwide as organizers of these groups steadily push bitcoin cash … Read more

IBM Partners with Top Jewelry Companies on Blockchain Project

IBM has partnered with some of the top companies in the gold and diamond industries on a cross-industry blockchain initiative meant to trace the origin of finished jewelry. The initiative, which was announced via a blog post by the New York-based tech giant, is intended to introduce transparency to an industry that has witnessed an … Read more