(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…
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…
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…
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…
LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin fell below $5,000 on Monday for the first time in over a year, slumping to a fresh 13-month low on the Bitstamp platform as a broad sell-off in cryptocurrencies sparked last Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin was heading towards a year-on-year loss on Wednesday, its tenth birthday, the first loss since last year’s bull market, when the original and biggest digital coin muscled its way to worldwide Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Michael Novogratz, former macro hedge fund manager and founder of cryptocurrency asset management firm Galaxy Digital Capital Management, on Thursday said that the bottom in cryptocurrency prices has been reached and Read more…
The increased popularity of cryptocurrencies is affecting all spheres of our life now – even the gambling business. Online casinos have started accepting Bitcoin and other tokens, and even brick-and-mortar houses offer cryptocurrency transactions. It’s Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – There is evidence that tether, a digital currency pegged to the US dollar, may have been used to manipulate the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to a research paper released Read more…
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail said it was hacked over the weekend, sparking a steep fall in Bitcoin amid renewed concerns about security at virtual currency exchanges as global policy makers struggled Read more…
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