Category : Bitcoin

Dan Berkovitz: CFTC Is Working Hard on the Bakkt Application

U.S. CFTC commissioner Dan Berkovitz says the futures and options markets regulator is working hard on the Bakkt proposal. While he’s refused to provide an approval deadline, he did say that the agency is not anti-crypto or anti-blockchain. CFT...

China’s Alibaba Partners With Chinese Software Giant to Promote Blockchain Development

Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with software giant Aerospace Information to promote blockchain technology

WSJ Falsely Overstates ‘$9 Million’ ShapeShift Money Laundering Claim: Analysis

Blockchain investigation and cybersecurity firm CipherBlade has done its own research, the results of which seem to exonerate crypto exchange ShapeShift from a scathing report in The Wall Street Journal. Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees was the first to...

Bitcoin Fraudster Duped Italian Investors out of $300,000 in Gold & Crypto

Gold and bitcoins worth of hundreds of thousands of euros are the spoils of an elaborate online fraud discovered by the postal police in Liguria, Italy. Bitcoin Scam Artist Impersonated Swiss Crypto Firm Local sources reported that the Italian author...

Canadian Crypto Enthusiasts Get One-on-One with Regulators

Crypto enthusiasts in Canada are giving regulators their ideas about how to monitor the space. This will include the practice of short-selling. The Canadian Securities Administrators and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada filed...

PewDiePie Rockets Back to YouTube Throne Despite New Zealand Controversy

PewDiePie once again reigns supreme on YouTube. Indian music corporation T-Series briefly managed to open up a nearly 11,000 subscriber lead, before an epic rally pushed Felix Kjellberg back into pole position, even as he continues to face controvers...

Two Exchanges Overtake Binance on CMC Rankings, But Research Suggests Volume Is Fake

LBank and Bit-Z both held the top position in exchanges by adjusted volume on CoinMarketCap today, but research suggests their volume is fake

Dow Suddenly Swings Higher as Apple Headlines Tech Stock Surge

The Dow and broader U.S. stock market pivoted higher Thursday, as traders reassessed the Federal Reserve’s dovish policy turn and its implications on riskier assets. Dow Rises from the Ashes; S&P 500 & Nasdaq Follow Wall Street’s major indexe...

Fortnite Billionaire Pledges $100 Million to Game Developers, No Strings Attached

Less than a week after Epic Games awarded creators participating in its $5 million Unreal Dev Grants program, the developer of the hugely successful online video game Fortnite has announced a new $100 million grant initiative known as Epic MegaGrants...

A Privacy-Focused Bitcoin Cash P2P Exchange Is Coming to Bitcoin.com

Bitcoin.com has always been on a quest to promote Bitcoin adoption. Our educational resources, forums, newsdesk, and other services reflect that mission on a daily basis. Now our web portal is introducing a feature called Local Bitcoin Cash, a servic...

Bitmain Set to Deploy $80 Million Worth of Bitcoin Miners, Sources Say

Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of crypto mining equipment, is scaling up its capacity to mine bitcoin itself.

(+) Binance Dominance Sends Another Veteran Bitcoin Exchange to the Scrap Heap

Binance’s overwhelming dominance of the cryptocurrency trading landscape has quietly sent another veteran Bitcoin exchange to the scrap heap. C-CEX, an altcoin exchange which eventually grew to more than 160,000 users, has quietly closed down n...

Apple Stock Target Raised to $215 Ahead Of $4 Billion Netflix Competitor Launch

Apple (AAPL) is unveiling its new streaming video service on Monday, and one analyst has high hopes. On Thursday, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives raised his price target for AAPL stock from $200 to $215. Ives also says he expects Apple’s streaming video ser...

AOC Effect: 70% Complain That Rich Don’t Pay Fair Share

Progressive rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t alone in her belief that the rich don’t pay their fair share, as a new OECD report has established that nearly 70% of people living in developed countries support hiking taxes on the...

Cryptocurrency Price Correlations in Bitcoin, Dollar Flipped in 2018, Binance Finds

Latest research piece from Binance highlights behavioral trends in price among cryptocurrencies