Hodling? If you’re already on board the bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.39% train, then that’s a term you’ll know well. But perhaps you happened upon it on Twitter… or while listening to a Senate Banking Committee hearing with the U.S.’s top two financial regulators. Yes, “hodl” made an appearance in testimony from Commodity Futures Trading Commission […]
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Featured Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Chairman and CEO Terry Duffy explained in a recent interview how the decision to list bitcoin futures in the last quarter of 2017 wasn’t made as a result of light or transient causes. Instead, it was a deliberate effort to bring a proven technology to well-financed clients who will help […]
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MARK.SPACE, a social interaction platform that utilizes the VR and 3D technologies, is looking to make VR accessible to all social layers in full functionality with the incorporation of blockchain. This project’s vision is to deliver an easy tool to create and launch any VR/3D project quickly without spending a fortune. 29th January, 2018 […]
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Bitcoin prices and the value of other cryptocurrencies dropped on Friday as Tokyo-based Coincheck Inc. revealed that as much as $530 million in digital assets had been stolen, eliciting shades of the Mt. Gox hack back in 2014. In fact, at about half a billion dollars in digital assets absconded, the hack would represent the […]
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Mining This week the publicly traded firm Mogo Finance Technology Inc. (TSX: MOGO) announced the creation of a new subsidiary called Mogo Blockchain. The fintech company’s new endeavor is a partnership with the firm DMG Blockchain Solutions in order to launch a bitcoin mining facility in British Columbia. Also read: How to Protect Your Bitcoin […]
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Featured Air travelers will soon be able to spend some satoshis in stores and cafes at Brisbane Airport. Major retailers will be accepting several cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin. The promise: “unprecedented digital currency experience” in the airport terminals. More than 20 merchants in the Brisbane area now take cryptos thanks to a local startup that is […]
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As if double-digit price swings aren’t enough to keep crypto investors on edge. According to new research from Ernst & Young, more than 10% of funds raised through “initial coin offerings” are either lost or stolen in hacker attacks. The study looked at more than 372 ICOs and discovered that about $400 million of the […]
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News Bulgarian law enforcement agencies have raided the offices of Onecoin in Sofia as part of a multinational effort to neutralize what authorities call a “centralized cryptocurrency pyramid scheme”. Three million people may have been defrauded by the company which offers services on four continents, according to media reports. Bulgarian officials were diligent enough to […]
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Bitcoinist.net · January 20, 2018 · 9:00 pm Zach Piester, a co-founder of Intrepid Ventures, works in Central Asia and refers this part of the world to a center of the universe for him and his colleagues. During the interview with the media office of Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Philippines, he described the region in […]
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Each and every year since I started this website, I’ve updated the following asset- allocation quilt: For the second year in a row, each asset class on this chart was positive. 2017 was a good year for investors. Looking at this list also serves as a reminder that next year the 2008 data will drop […]
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