On 8th February 2018, the Arizona Senate has passed a bill that allows the U.S citizens in the state to pay their taxes through Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
As earlier reported by the media, last month a group of policy-maker submitted a bill that, if passed, would allow taxpayers to ... Views: 707
Catherine Wood, CEO of Ark Investment Management, told CNBC that Bitcoin is a bigger idea compared to Apple.
The statement was given by Catherine:
“I KNOW A WHOLE LOT OF INDIVIDUALS WOULD SAY ‘DO NOT COMPARE THIS TO APPLE, WHICH IS NEARING A TRILLION DOLLARS, BUT THIS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN ... Views: 809
The Bitcoin cash community moved one step closer to have their own address format with the launch of Bitcoin ABC 0.16.2 on 3rd January 2018. The complete node implementation of BCH carries a switch to a proprietary address format to differentiate it from Bitcoin core. It is estimated that this ... Views: 770
Blockchain Technology experts and cryptocurrency fanatics across India are imprinted with a new hope, as India’s largest corporate and business firm, Reliance Industries plans to launch their own cryptocurrency called JioCoin.
Even though not confirmed by Reliance or Jio as of now, but the ... Views: 897
The unbelievable Bitcoin cost rally this season has brought a number of new individuals to the crypto-currency globe, a number of people just looking to earn a fast buck without comprehending too much what they’re getting into. Obviously, this type of situation attracts offenders that seem to ... Views: 689
Indian Finance minister Arun Jaitley, in his budget speech today (1st February 2018), stated that the government will do everything to cease the use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in India. He said that India does not consider them as a legalized tender and as an alternative will support ... Views: 784
According to local news sources,
Calcutta-based Advocate Bivas Chatterjee has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) on Friday (5th January 2017) in the Calcutta court to immediately regulate the flow of both Bitcoin in and out of India,
In his petition, Chatterjee implied that ... Views: 779
Global money transfer service provider MoneyGram has declared their plans for the adoption of XRP token into its payments structure in order to amplify the speed and decrease the cost of international payments.
MoneyGram, the world’s second-largest provider of money transfers made the ... Views: 638
Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, is considering to launch a federal crypto-currency known as the e-Krona in two years.
Sweden’s position as potentially the world’s first cashless society has resulted in a study note, written by HSBC economist James Pomeroy, entitled “Sweden’s big year: ... Views: 836
Co-founder and Fundstrat strategist Tom Lee predicted that Bitcoin (BTC) will strike $25,000 at the end of this year in an interview with CNBC on (18th January 2018). Lee previously had predicted that BTC would attain this mark by 2022.
The Wall Street strategist told CNBC that by 2022 he ... Views: 663
South Korea’s crackdown on Bitcoin and crypto-currency Trading has become a charade with reports stating that the authorities are injured with severe infighting on how to proceed with it.
The first act of this charade began in October when South Korea’s finance minister said that it had been ... Views: 674
Nearly 438 bitcoins worth over $3 Million dollars were stolen from a top exchange firm in India. This is the biggest cryptocurrency theft in the country so far.
Coinsecure, the Delhi-based cryptocurrency exchange claims that as the funds have been drawn off to a different wallet address and ... Views: 905
From forged Twitter accounts claiming to send free Ether and Bitcoin to imitators sending bogus emails to ICO investors, cryptocurrency scams are rising at high rate. Even Apple’s co-founder, Steve Wozniak, lost seven Bitcoins to an online fraud. The most recent company who joined the list of ... Views: 840
The world of crypto currency can seem transient and weird, especially since it’s wholly digital domain. There is no way you can go down to your local ATM and withdraw a couple of Bitcoin to stick in your pocket, so there’s always this feeling in the mind of a crypto beginner that the whole thing ... Views: 1014
The ultimate hodler
Actor, Rapper and entrepreneur Curtis Jackson, better recognized as 50 Cent’s, appears to have gathered a small fortune in the volatile digital currency.
As TMZ (a celebrity news website) first reported, Jackson comes out to be the latest in a series of celebrities and ... Views: 823
Heard about Bitcoin and Altcoins lately? You probably have, thanks to the entire buzz surrounding Bitcoin’s record-breaking growth. 2017 was definitely the year of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies where the former one has surged from more than $950 at the beginning of the year to as high as ... Views: 865
he price of Bitcoin has dropped to an unbelievable 64.5% since 17th December 2017. The mutual market capitalization of the industry now is at just $338 billion.
That’s a big drop for any market. However, a price crash in Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency is nothing new. Bitcoin usually takes ... Views: 878
Recently, the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), Malaysia’s central bank, has issued outlined digital currency regulatory guidelines for people and businesses dwelling in the region. The new policies will fall under Malaysia’s anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism funding act of 2001. If the plans ... Views: 649
Once a mega-investor said, if you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will have to work until you die. And when it comes to the cryptocurrency world, people say only those who can analyze the marketplace finely or are day traders can earn money. But that’s not true!!
In fact, ... Views: 864
On Monday (5th February 2018) Britain’s major bank followed the lead of US counterpart and banned clients from using credit cards to purchase Bitcoin, amid fears they could run up to huge losses. Credit card holders of Lloyds, that includes Halifax, Bank of Scotland and MBNA, will be prohibited ... Views: 630
Commonwealth Bank of Australia joined a growing list of banks blocking its customers from buying cryptocurrencies.
“Due to the unregulated and highly unstable nature of virtual currencies, clients will no longer be able to use their Commonwealth bank credit cards to purchase virtual ... Views: 813
Australia’s leading banks have announced that they are not planning to block their customers account from buying Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
This differs from the approach taken by the UK based Lloyds Banking Group and US banks JP Morgan, Bank of America and Citi.
Recently the ... Views: 925
Four Australian banks have apparently frozen accounts of some of its clients sighting their participation in crypto activities. Some clients have complained that the banks also have banned them from shifting their capital to the market.
Crypto Dealer Alex Saunders stated the name of This four ... Views: 823
One of the finest things about the Blockchain is that it is a decentralized system that exists between all legalized parties and there is no need of forfeit intermediaries (Middlemen). Blockchains have their own problems; however, they are unquestionably faster, cheaper & safer than the ... Views: 810
Bitcoin mining has been the area of the computer geeks and programmers until lately with the introduction of cloud mining. A remote server to mine currency (cloud mining) seems perfect for the people who don’t have money or time to set up a home operation. These days more and more people are ... Views: 992
Half of the funds from Bill Miller’s MVP 1 s now invested on Bitcoins, his major single focus on an asset within an investment fund, Miller advised Consuelo Mack at a WealthTrack podcast.
In 2016 Miller launched Miller Value Partners after working for 35 years in Legg Mason. He managed a fund ... Views: 728
On Sunday 17th December 2017 French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire declared that another Group of 20 (G20) meeting would include a debate about ways to govern the hottest crypto-currency, Bitcoin. The digital asset has not stopped in creating news annually, and European politicians seem more ... Views: 839
Famed hedge funder turned crypto-investor Michael Novogratz does not think bitcoin will top out anytime shortly.
The previous Fortress manager told CNBC Monday (27th Nov 2017), the Bitcoin that has been flirting with $10,000, could possibly hit $40,000 at the end of 2018.
Michael ... Views: 662
According to Bloomberg article published on Tuesday (30th Jan 2018), one of the world’s leading crypto-currency exchange Bitfinex and the company behind the controversial USDT token “Tether”, have been subpoenaed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
The CFTC had sent ... Views: 872
Coinbase, the worldwide crypto-currency industry’s largest broker and wallet platform at over $1.6 billion, is now the Apple app store’s leading application, surpassing YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.
Finance and Bitcoin journalist Paul Vigna disclosed:
The top 10 applications in Apple’s ... Views: 709
The doyen of Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan, and his actor-son Abhishek appear to have scripted their own success story in their personal financial investments that none of the Bollywood guys would have ever imagined.
The crypto-currency mania that has gripped Wall Street and various ... Views: 830
Even after JP Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon’s strong views on Bitcoin, it is ironic that an international markets strategist in JP Morgan has come up with a message stating that regulated futures could give authority to Bitcoin.
Seal of approval
The decision of US regulators to permit Bitcoin ... Views: 643
Bitcoin Futures, the Most Recent buzz in the crypto-currency markets, is gaining attention from each portion of the world. More and more people are trying to understand Bitcoin futures so that they can understand how it can influence the location value of Bitcoin.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange ... Views: 882
Google’s director of sustainable ads, Scott Spencer, told media that the company is revising its financial services-related advertisement policies to ban any advertisements about cryptocurrency-related content that includes ICOs (initial coin offerings), wallets, and trading ... Views: 760
Bitcoin value is down nearly 40 Percent’s all-time highs near $20,000, falling into a 15-day low approximately $12,000.
On Friday (22nd December 2017) the early trading session saw Bitcoin value plunge to $12,110 (Bitfinex) in 07:20 (GMT), near levels last observed over two weeks back on 7th ... Views: 701
On Monday (8th January 2018) a resurgent Bitcoin cost saw its rally grind to a stop after the report that South Korean authorities tasked with fighting money laundering and terrorist funding would probe bank account that are linked to national crypto-currency exchanges.
Bitcoin Price Rally ... Views: 713
The South Korean government formally publicized a document enclosing the guidelines for the regulations of cryptocurrency on Tuesday (23rd January 2018). The announcement was made by Kim Yong-bum who is the Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission (FSC).
The document explains the ... Views: 799
India-based digital money exchanges have alleged that the amount of Indian investors that enrolled in their programs to Purchase Bitcoin has improved substantially in the last couple of months as the worthiness of this major cryptocurrency surpassed the $11,000 amount on 29 November 2017.
The ... Views: 587
Bitpanda (formerly called Coinimal) is a crypto-currency agent located in Vienna, Austria that functions brokerage services with a dash, litecoin, etheruem, and Bitcoin. On 3rd January 2018, Bitpanda has announced entirely integrating Bitcoin Cash (BCH), including a fifth coin into the ... Views: 761
With the rolling price of cryptocurrencies, demand has reached the point where cryptocurrency exchanges are completely flooded. This enormous invasion of users has led to major infrastructure concerns leading to the provisional closure of their registration portals.
All through the second ... Views: 656
The head of Sberbank considers the wider-scale Blockchain Adoption in Russia could take at least a decade.
As Quoted by state-owned news agency TASS, Herman Gref, Sberbank’s chairman of the board, suggested on Thursday (21st Dec 2017) that the establishment can roll out products depending on ... Views: 689
1st January 2017 is going to be the beginning of the Public Sale to get ShipChain, the project that will use blockchain to switch the shipping & logistics marketplace.
ShipChain encircles all methods of cargo and will incorporate an open API architecture that could integrate with existing ... Views: 661
A source of Transparency — blockchain — will help to tackle many issues on the existing game marketplace, from cyber theft to unfair earnings distribution models.
Through Konstantin Boyko-Romanovsky, founder of Destiny Games.
Gaming sector slowly shifted from a small niche for technical ... Views: 772
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has verified that blockchain technology will change its current clearing and settlement system, becoming the world’s first major stock exchange to achieve that.
After more than two years of real-world testing with several proofs of model and prototypes, the ... Views: 679
Bitcoin and Ethereum to be acknowledged by the World’s First ‘ALL YOU CAN FLY’ Airline.
On Tuesday (5th December 2017) Surf Air, the first ‘all-you-can-fly’ airline of the world made a statement of accepting crypto payments ahead of its own service. Clients now will be able to pay in Bitcoin ... Views: 605
Cryptocurrency adopters in Australia will now be able to buy bitcoin and ethereum from 1,200 newsstands across the country.
A new joint venture between domestic cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin Australia and payments provider Blueshyft, 1,200 newsstands in Australia will be able to resell ... Views: 752
UK Academic Larisa Yarovaya informed Cambridge Independent that:
Bitcoin’s popularity ought to be regarded as a “concern for Society.
The local newspaper reported on an ongoing debate on Bitcoin’s fast growing value among Cambridge specialists, whose remarks on the topic very. Yarovaya, a ... Views: 687
Major Canadian gaming affiliate website Bonus.ca has joined the Bitcoin community. The business has reviewed and tracked conventional gaming websites so as to locate the most trusted service providers for Canadian gamers.
Because of Current Client feedback, the business has chosen to expand ... Views: 697
Weeks back when two of the largest Derivative Exchanges in the world made a breakthrough statement of launching Bitcoin futures that is going to start at the end of the year, the purchase price of Bitcoin increased by leaps and bounds. Chicago Mercantile Exchange gave a date of next week of this ... Views: 1139
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)’s site became inaccessible just as it launched its first Bitcoin futures contracts on Sunday (10th December 2017) at 6 p.m. EST.
The site downtime- that CBOE credited to extensive traffic around the futures release in a post on Twitter – coincided ... Views: 757