Bitcoin -25%, Ethereum -29%, Ripple -44%: Is the Bitcoin Top In?
• https://www.themaven.net, by Mike Mish ShedlockBitcoin is interesting to watch due to its volatility. It's down 25% for the day. Ripple is down 44%.
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Bitcoin is interesting to watch due to its volatility. It's down 25% for the day. Ripple is down 44%.
Overnight reports from South Korea started it; European regulator comments extended it this morning; and Shanghai "scrutiny" headlines just sparked another slam as cryptocurrencies are getting hammered today...
Cryptocurrencies have been threatened at one point or another by nearly every country on the planet. Rarely does a government venture beyond rhetoric. Those resorting to crackdowns are often met with greater public appetite for decentralized virtual
Week after week regulators and governments have been announcing plans to regulate digital currencies like bitcoin. This week in France on January 15 the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire announced his decision to create a "digital currencies m
for Bitcoin mining reaches "insane" territory...(Natural News) The amount of electricity required to mine and transact Bitcoin is now so high that a small county in Washington state is having to kick production into overdrive. According to report
Anyone can create a cryptocurrency. It's a surprisingly simple process, especially if you copy the codebase of an existing coin and give it a new name. That's how many of the most popular cryptocurrencies such as litecoin were born. But creating
Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro has called for 10 other countries to adopt his planned oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro. This move follows the country's parliament declaring the issuance of this new currency illegal.
Trillions of dollars in uncontrolled central bank stimulus and years of artificially low interest rates have poisoned every aspect of our financial system.
Warren Buffett tells CNBC the recent craze over bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies won't end well. "When it happens or how or anything else, I don't know," the billionaire Berkshire Hathaway chief says. But he says he would not take
Last week, two substantial software flaws were unearthed to the technological public to much alarm. The vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre by their finders, exploit weaknesses in the computer processors (CPUs) used in most of the world's
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will definitely come to a bad end, according to the 'Oracle of Omaha', Warren Buffet. In an interview with CNBC Jan. 10, billionaire manager of Berkshire Hathaway investment group said he believes that there is
Following unconfirmed reports last week of a partnership with Western Union, Ripple has announced a deal to work with MoneyGram. While Ripple barely moved on the news, MGI stock exploded higher...
The Russian Ministry of Labor's updated income, expenses and property declaration guidelines for government employees for reporting on 2017 includes a point about cryptocurrency, local media outlet Izvestia reports. The updated regulations state th
Warren Buffett doubled down on his criticism of bitcoin Wednesday during an interview with CNBC, where he said he's almost certain the cryptocurrency craze "will end badly" and that the current runup in value will be fleeting.
Vitaliy Katsenelson emailed an article about the Bitcoin bubble. Let's compare to the "Something Else Entirely" belief.
U.S. technology firm Kodak has announced that it will launch its own cryptocurrency, with plans to host an initial coin offering (ICO) at the end of January.
Online retail giant Overstock.com has reportedly experienced a cryptocurrency payments bug that could have allowed customers to mint money simply via repeated cancellation of orders.
An ad-hoc study in the volatility of niche cryptocurrencies.
Venezuela's parliament, notably run by the opposition, has outlawed President Nicolas Maduro's much-vaulted oil-backed national cryptocurrency, the petro.
Study Finds That 22 Percent Of Bitcoin Investors Are Using Debt To Fund Their Investments
Now that it is all too clear to everyone that all it takes to send your microcap stock price soaring anywhere between 50% and 500% or more, is to either add "Blockchain" to the company name, or announce some "Cryptocurrency initiative" ...
The Bitcoin Price Equivalence Shows What "Cheap" Cryptocurrencies Are Really Worth Economics 7 hours ago | Kai Sedgwick | 21275 | 27 The Bitcoin Price Equivalence Shows What "Cheap" Cryptocurrencies Are Really Worth There's been a
As Joseph Stiglitz sees matters, the euro suffers from a fatal flaw. The euro is the currency of 19 European countries; and common money blocks efforts of nations that, according to Stiglitz, need to devalue their currencies. More generally, attempts
If you, like me, spend a lot of time Googling cryptocurrencies, you've probably seen that face. You might already know the one I'm talking about: It stares at you from web ads, blankly, with just a hint of a smile, like a bad 80s yearbook photo.
I haphazardly dove into the world of bitcoin cloud mining to see if I could grind a profit.
Within the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange market, the price of Bitcoin Cash has surpassed $3,800, due to a flurry of mainstream media reports that have emerged over the past few days.
Cybersecurity forefather John McAfee is ringing in the New Year on a contentious note. The programmer turned multi-millionaire recently claimed that his Twitter was hacked in the days following Christmas, stating that a series of promotional coin of
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has announced the issuance of 100 million petros, the state's proposed upcoming national cryptocurrency backed by its oil reserves, the world's largest by any country.
Bittrex, the third largest cryptocurrency exchange in the global market behind Binance and Bithumb, has temporarily paused Ethereum deposits due to the current congestion on the Ethereum blockchain network.
Venezuela is moving ahead with plans to "overcome the financial blockade" by launching an oil-backed cryptocurrency known as Petro, and is now recruiting miners nationwide.