Category : Bitcoin

Crypto Markets Descend While Tech Stocks Surge

Major crypto markets have registered slight losses on the day, with only a few major coins trading in the green

Bitcoin Savings Accounts: Crypto’s Next Big Thing?

When BlockFi began offering interest-bearing accounts earlier this month, it seemed to have struck gold. Giving people a place to securely store their bitcoin or ether is paying off for the company and crypto holders. An impressive 10,000 people have...

Patriots Owner’s ‘Graphic’ Sex Tape Could Be Released to Peeping Tom Public

Robert Kraft’s graphic sex tape — where he’s caught on video receiving oral sex at a Florida massage parlor — will probably be released publicly. That’s what Florida authorities said one day after the billionaire New England Patriot...

UPS Integrates Blockchain Platform to Improve Merchant Supply Chains

Logistics giant UPS and e-commerce tech firm Inxeption have jointly developed a blockchain platform designed to improve merchant supply chains

Fake Wasabi Bitcoin Wallet Emerges

A fake version of Wasabi wallet, probably designed to steal bitcoins, has emerged online at wasabibitcoinwallet.org. (Don’t visit that site.) Wasabi Lead Developer Exposes Fake Website According to Wasabi developer nopara73 (the only confirmed identi...

Bitcoin’s 4th Largest Exchange to Support Tron Stablecoin

The liquidity of the Tron network is about to go to the next level. As we previously reported, Tether is expanding its USDT product to the Tron blockchain. Now the community has heard from a veteran exchange – USDT-Tron is going to list on OKEx. 4th...

Craig ‘Satoshi’ Wright Claims to Have Filed 666 Blockchain Patents

The race to file blockchain patents has accelerated lately with one specific firm, Nchain Holdings, attempting to capture hundreds of distributed ledger-related patents. According to reports, self-proclaimed Satoshi – Craig Wright – and his Nchain bu...

Vitalik Buterin: High Ethereum Price Good for Security, Ecosystem Development

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says that high ether prices are important both for network security and the wider ecosystem’s development

Russian Gold Stockpile Grows as Analysts Warn of Global Recession

Following sanctions imposed on Russia, Putin is supporting a mass gold stockpile expansion and a sale of U.S. debt holdings. With a trade war blazing, and sanctions laid across countries to force North Korea and its associates into submission, what h...

Report: Bitmain Plans to Set Up 200,000 Crypto Mining Machines in China

Major cryptocurrency mining hardware producer Bitmain is reportedly planning to install 200,000 units of mining equipment in China

Vitalik Buterin Cashed Out Large Sums of ETH During 2017 Crypto Frenzy

Ethereum mastermind Vitalik Buterin, who holds 350,000 ETH in his main wallet address, allegedly cashed out $40 million worth of ETH between June 2017 and February 2018. The findings came to light by Alex Sunnarborg, a founding partner of the crypto...

Newsflash: Dow Surges 250 Points to Race Past 26,000

The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened to sharp losses on Thursday and then promptly began a massive recovery that achieved what few on Wall Street thought it would today: cross the 26,000 mark on the back of a blockbuster rally. Dow Reverses Early...

Why Square’s Bitcoin Hiring Spree is Crucial for Crypto Adoption

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Square, the $32.7 billion mobile payment giant based in the U.S., revealed that Square would fund three to four developers and a designer to work on the open-source protocol of Bitcoin and the crypto ecosystem. Independent of...

Theresa May Creating Dangerous Divisions as UK Heads Over the Cliff

British Prime Minister Theresa May is entering dangerous territory after blaming members of Parliament for Brexit delays last night, stoking an already febrile atmosphere across the country and drawing comparisons with the Steve Bannon-led Trump admi...

Narcotics Dealers Dump Dark Web for Telegram & WhatsApp

As law enforcement increasingly cracks down on centralized dark-web markets, online narcotics dealers are migrating to encrypted messing apps like Telegram and WhatsApp, according to a new report from the Independent. Citing the findings of an anonym...