SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s three largest bitcoin exchanges, whose activities have drawn increased scrutiny from the central bank, said they will begin charging trading fees effective Tuesday. BTCC, Huobi and OkCoin said in separate statements Read more…
I expect that most of you will by now have read a fair bit about the (to my mind) fabulous living monetary experiment that is India. Obviously, I feel sorry for people who have been Read more…
SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) – China’s central bank launched spot checks on leading bitcoin exchanges in Beijing and Shanghai, ratcheting up pressure on potential capital outflows and knocking the price of the cryptocurrency down more than 12% Read more…
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Blockchain, which allows the web-based currency to function, has attracted some big backers who have risen to prominence partly because of their rejection of traditional power structures – like bitcoin itself. Now Read more…
Charlie Lee, the inventor of Litecoin, has put forth his ideas for Bitcoin/Litecoin (BTC/LTC) atomic exchanges and Lightning networks in order to seamlessly take loads off the ever more expensive Bitcoin network and share them Read more…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The head of a major bitcoin exchange in China says few people there use the cryptocurrency to get around rules on how much money they can take out of the country, and Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) -Bitcoin plunged by as much as 12% on Friday after China’s central bank urged investors to take a rational and cautious approach to investing in the digital currency, which is on track for Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – A dramatic rally in digital currency bitcoin came to a spectacular end on Thursday with a plunge of up to 20% as China’s yuan rose sharply – further evidence of an intriguing Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125% climb in Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – The total value of all bitcoins in circulation hit a record high above $14 billion on Thursday, as the web-based digital currency jumped 5% on the day to its highest levels in Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A small, but rapidly growing number of digital technology start-ups is raising cash by creating and selling their own currencies in offerings that bypass banks or venture capital firms as intermediaries Read more…
Satoshi Nakamoto is a person known more from the rumor and myths surrounding his life than any actual facts. His story is compelling simply because he’s an anonymous individual in a world where anonymity is a Read more…
Well, that was the fun. The nice people at the Meaning Conference gave me 13 minutes to try to explain what blockchain technology is, what blockchains might do, and what the implications might be, to Read more…
Weekly Wrap 6 features John Tanner and Tony Poulos discussing the news highlights from the week that was. For the week ending December 17: It was the week that we learned that Yahoo had been Read more…
The discussions around digital currency continue. I had an interesting sort-of-argument with someone about this recently, and I mentioned in passing the dynamics of the shift from specie to token money during the industrial revolution. Read more…
LONDON (Reuters) – Web-based digital currency bitcoin hit its highest levels in almost three years on Friday, extending gains since India sparked a cash shortage by removing high-denomination bank notes from circulation a month ago. Read more…
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