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Increasing anxiety in cryptocurrency markets – we’ve been here before
There appears to be increasing anxiety in the cryptocurrency markets, but current market conditions are looking somewhat like 2012. Read more…
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Cryptocurrency exchanges creaking, bitcoin prices crash
The economic hit from the coronavirus outbreak spread from stocks, oil and bonds to cryptocurrency markets late last week, bitcoin crashed. Read more…
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Bitcoin plummets in wildly volatile cryptocurrency market
Bitcoin has plummets amid wild volatility in cryptocurrency markets, with traders citing a sell-off as the coronavirus pandemic takes hold. Read more…
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China’s Bitcoin miners account for 66% of global hashrate
China’s Bitcoin miners now control two-thirds of the cryptocurrency network’s processing power, which is likely to benefit the country’s miners. Read more…
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As Xi pushes blockchain, bitcoin benefits
China president Xi Jinping said that his party must focus on bumping up investments in blockchain technology. Read more…
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Cheaper and faster: which Bitcoin alternatives (altcoins) to buy?
Bitcoin is still undisputed leader in the market, but other alternatives (altcoins) offer the same functionality (or even broader) at a more favourable price. Read more…
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Bitcoin losing favour as ransom payment mode
(Reuters) – Give me bitcoin or your life. Seriously? The people behind a rash of bomb threats made across the United States and Canada last Thursday demanded a $20,000 ransom to be paid in bitcoin. Read more…
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Retail investors flee Bitcoin causing prices to recede
LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin’s value has plunged by three-quarters this year, sending the original and biggest cryptocurrency back to levels not seen before its bubble. And price isn’t the only aspect of trading that has Read more…
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Bitcoin plunge continues as investors sour on crypto
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bitcoin plunged more than 12% on Monday, extending falls in recent weeks in a broad-based selloff in digital currencies as sentiment sours. Several factors have accelerated the downturn, analysts said, including Read more…
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Why Bitcoin is losing viability as a payment option
LONDON (Reuters) – The use of Bitcoin for commercial payments has dropped dramatically this year, even as the original digital coin starts to fulfil one of the basic features of any payment currency: stability. The Read more…