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Bitcoin hash rate hits record average high with $12K price in sight
August 17th, 2020
Bitcoin’s seven-day average hash rate passes 129 TH/s for the first time as the price continues to meet resistance at the $12K level. As the price of Bitcoin continues to meet resistance passing $12,000, its hash rate has hit ...
Bitcoin price is rising regardless coronavirus outbreak
February 14th, 2020
Bitcoin price has reached a mark of $10.000 which can mostly be explained by an effort of investors to find a safe haven amid the recent outbreak of coronavirus that has seriously affected many companies as in Asia, so ...
The world’s most-used cryptocurrency isn’t Bitcoin
October 4th, 2019
What’s the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency? If you think it’s Bitcoin, which accounts for about 70% of all the digital-asset world’s market value, you’re probably wrong. While concrete figures on trading volumes are hard to come by in ...
Bitcoin vs Libra
July 22nd, 2019
Bitcoin vs Libra: Here are the key differences between the two cryptocurrencies Libra and bitcoin are different in a lot of ways, from the technology behind them to the way they’re used. CNBC runs through the key differences between ...
Company charged in $147 million fraudulent bitcoin trading scheme
June 19th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of a civil enforcement action (Complaint) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against defendants Control-Finance Limited (Control-Finance), a purported Bitcoin trading and investment company, ...
It now costs more to make bitcoin than the cryptocurrency is worth
February 7th, 2019
It costs more money to make bitcoin than the cryptocurrency is worth. Producing a single bitcoin now costs $4060 on average, but it is valued at less than $3500, according to an analysis by JPMorgan Chase. Bitcoin relies on ...
Cryptocurrencies dropped on Thursday; Bitcoin gave up the $4,000 level
January 10th, 2019
Cryptocurrencies dropped on Thursday as Bitcoin gave up the $4,000 level it’s hovered around since the start of the year. The largest digital currency slumped as much as 6.2 percent in the European morning, erasing an earlier small gain ...
Price of bitcoin falls below cost to mine
December 17th, 2018
To add further misery to bitcoin enthusiasts, the act of finding or “mining” the cryptocurrency has become unprofitable as the price continues to crater. This raises further questions about the viability of the accounting system supporting the cryptocurrency. The ...
Bitcoin turns 10 — how it went from an abstract idea to a $100 billion market in a decade
November 1st, 2018
Ten years ago, as Lehman Brothers was declaring bankruptcy and the global economy was lurching into recession, the idea for an alternative currency was being quietly built online. Bitcoin went from an anti-establishment fad on the internet to a ...
Bitcoin scams on the rise; How and Indian cryptocurrency trader almost lost two BTC
October 24th, 2018
A cryptocurrency user from India has almost lost two Bitcoins on LocalBitcoins. The attacker reportedly used sophisticated methods such as SMS spoofing, evidence tampering, and downright lying to the admins of Localbitcoins to facilitate the crime. The recent banking ...
