Monetary systems are really changing and now the once popular centralized money system is being replaced with the decentralized cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency is an advanced payment system that is intended to make payments easier and faster. You may have heard about Bitcoin-the first ... Views: 610
Singapore – Over the past 12 months, the Bitcoin price has rocketed up over a 1000%. As a result, speculative investors have scrambled to buy the digital currency, in expectation of even further price gains. There is just one problem.
Despite the excitement surrounding the current Bitcoin ... Views: 934
Are you keen to get free bitcoin? Well, the idea does sound enticing, but the source of the bitcoins needs to be genuine. To make your quest simpler, we will explore different channels to acquire free bitcoins and help you dig out the best one.
How to Acquire Free Bitcoins
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Banks and bitcoin have a complex relationship, but they do share some things in common. To its proponents, bitcoin is the future of money, but it still takes traditional money to purchase cryptocurrency, and right now, banks control them. If these Giants can, they’ll also have a controlling ... Views: 475
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: 495
Coinbase Says “No Decision” has been made for Ripple
“No Decision” on New Assets, Coinbase Says Among Ripple Rumors
Coinbase is pushing back against stories that it may soon add Ripple’s XRP token to its current trading pairs.
The guess originated after it revealed that Coinbase chief ... Views: 421
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: 609
Uber co-founder who is also known for disrupting one industry is now allegedly going after gold, fiat currency, and bitcoin. Garrett Camp is behind a newly dubbed cryptocurrency Eco, a decentralized global currency protocol and he is looking towards the world’s top universities to run an ... Views: 471
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been hit by a lawsuit action over alleged insider trading. According to the legal documents dated last Thursday, the case has been filed by Jeffery Berk, represents a cluster of investors that placed trading orders on Coinbase or its order book trading ... Views: 469
Secret cryptocurrency mining is shaping up to be the new foundation of cybercrime. Criminals hack servers, mobile devices, and personal computers to get the advantage of the infected hosts’ CPU or GPU to create virtual coins without victims’ alertness. Even botnets consist of various machines ... Views: 507
Cryptocurrency is taking over the world like a storm. All of mainstream media has been flooded with success stories about people making millions out of a forgotten thousand-dollar investment they made in 2013. It would be foolish to run into an investment opportunity basing your beliefs on the ... Views: 885
On Tuesday (20th February 2018), cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and Bitfinex has declared the implementation of P2SH Segregated Witness (SegWit). According to the companies’ tweet, the consumer will experience better transaction processing times and lower fees across the Bitcoin ... Views: 510
The U.S. FCC (Federal Communications Commission) has officially warned Brooklyn resident Victor Rosario, by sending him the legal notice because the Bitcoin (BTC) miner was causing harmful interference to T-Mobile’s broadband network.
The notification of harmful interference given to him ... Views: 513
American electric automotive manufacturer Tesla has allegedly fallen victim to a cryptocurrency mining malware attack. On Tuesday (20th February 2018), cyber security software company RedLock reported that hackers had exploited an insecure Kubernetes console, which they use to access & siphon ... Views: 440
Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) which is France’s independent regulatory body gave statements on Thursday (22nd February 2018) on initial coin offerings (ICOs) the vision of Bitcoin derivatives. Both point towards the upcoming guidelines for crypto in France, including everything from ... Views: 458
A rising trend has gripped financial markets: Big US banks, UK banks and European banks are blocking the purchase of cryptocurrency through leading companies like Coinbase, Bitstamp, Bitgrail, and scores of others. Banks are working with credit card companies like Visa and MasterCard to ... Views: 577
On Thursday (22nd February 2018) Digital money platform Uphold has made the announcement that they have bought a mobile commerce start-up Cortex MCP. The deal will see the company which was previously known as Bitreserve – acquiring Cortex intellectual property holdings and adding its Founder ... Views: 426
The most influential public administrator from the world’s leading democratic country has bullishly labeled ‘disruptive’ blockchain tech to bring seismic transformation to Indian culture.
On Monday (19th February 2018) during the inaugural speech at NASSCOM Summit in Hyderabad (WCIT), Indian ... Views: 445
Currently, we all have been listening to the word Cryptocurrency, but there are very few who knows exactly that what exactly Cryptocurrency is. Even though this digital currency has emerged just a few years back, but currently this currency is the World’s highest rated currency yet. Well, first ... Views: 596
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: 563
Following the alliance with Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), tech giant Microsoft has disclosed its strategy to utilize blockchain tech to resolve some of the challenges experienced in managing identities and confidential information digitally, which includes client’s concerns on privacy ... Views: 622
Thousands of websites, including those belonging to NHS services, the Student Loans Company and several English councils, have been infected by malware that forces visitors’ computers to mine cryptocurrency while using the site.
Various media outlets reported on Monday (12th February 2018), ... Views: 466
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: 487
India will soon have its own set of rules for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The responsibilities of various authorities have been confirmed, a high-ranking official disclosed. Significant institutions are currently finalizing a comprehensive government guideline on cryptocurrencies. ... Views: 570
The largest state-controlled bank of Russia and the third major bank in Europe Sberbank has restated that it is not mining cryptocurrencies. However, the bank stated that it has often caught its employees involved in crypto mining through bank’s equipment.
Sberbank Claim It Is Not Mining ... Views: 499
You can’t get on social media these days without seeing someone post an article, video, or comment about Bitcoin. This groundbreaking cryptocurrency is enjoying its fair share of attention and probably has you wondering, should I get involved?
What is Bitcoin?
For starters, it’s important ... Views: 713
Mobile is one of the biggest mobile carriers in the US. This status is not going to protect it from a lawsuit that is being filed against it. One of its customers Carlos Tapang has decided to file a lawsuit as hackers stole his cryptocurrency from his mobile wallet. According to him, the company ... Views: 452
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: 642
The US Senate Committee heard testimony from the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Christopher Giancarlo, and the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Jay Clayton, on the possible risks of digital currencies as investments. Their testimony, in the ... Views: 561
Bitcoin (BTC) hit a new low on Monday( 5th February 2018) dropping below $7,000 since the mid of November 2017.
The latest cryptocurrency market dip has possibly been caused by the recent news from China that all foreign cryptocurrency exchanges are to be banned by the People’s Bank of China ... Views: 565
Last week many reports stated that the Government of India has banned the complete cryptocurrency marketplace & the cryptocurrency dealings. During the interaction with media India’s three major cryptocurrency exchanges stated that the cryptocurrency ban is nothing more than FUD.
In an ... Views: 516
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: 597
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: 432
Top 10 Cryptocurrency to invest in 2018
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Blockchain for logistics is the hottest talk of the town, with multinational companies approaching for pilot programs and undertaking initiatives to expand power in the marketplace. American shipping giant FedEx, being a global leader in logistics and as a company known for its zeal to innovate ... Views: 561
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: 573
On Tuesday (30th Jan 2018), Facebook declared that it will start banning all ads that promotes crypto-currency, including Bitcoin and ICO’s. This “intentionally broad” ban is an attempt to cut short advertisers that the social network claims “are not currently functioning in good faith.”
The ... Views: 642
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: 625
Japanese consumer electronics trader Yamada Denki has collaborated with the country’s major crypto-currency exchange Bitflyer to tryout Bitcoin payments. Initially, Bitcoin will be accepted in its Tokyo based Labi stores, but the company decided to roll out the virtual currency payment ... Views: 499
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: 472
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: 596
In a surprising move that will shock few spectators, Bitconnect has declared that it is closing its lending and exchange platform.
The company has widely been accused of operating a Ponzi scheme and was recently shaken by cease and stop notices from two US states. Immediately after the firm ... Views: 453
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: 452
Crypto now enters the fast food world as KFC Canada took the step forward & launches the Bitcoin Bucket, a meal for $20 value of the virtual currency.
There are some brands that have become amazingly Iconic in recent years. One such brand is Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC in short. KFC has ... Views: 656
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: 404
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: 525
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: 665
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: 481
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: 407
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: 574