What happened on the crypto market this January: top hot topics
Bitnewstoday presents the top events of January which influenced the cryptocurrency market
04 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Margareth Nail
Ran Neuner, investor and CNBC program host: Bitcoin will end 2018 at $50,000
The prediction made by Ran Neuner would look strange if Bitcoin was a traditional share or security. But as witnessed by the observers last year, its price dynamics is incomparable to shares and $50,000 are as probable as $0
04 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Kazakhstan’s FinMin employees mined at work
Mining at work consumes the corporate, or, as in this case, governmental resources for the benefit of dishonest employees. The recent case in Kazakhstan confirms that the problem never disappeared even though mentioned less than other coin-related crimes
04 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Bank of America and JPMorgan block opportunity to buy BTC using their credit cards
Two big influential financial organizations close the opportunity to buy cryptocurrency using their cards. Read the report by Bitnewstoday to know more about the latest tightening of the banking rules of the game
04 February 2018 21:00, UTC
China to block cryptocurrency-related websites
The Great Firewall of China might become bigger due to the addition of major cryptocurrency websites, the media found out. Read below which countries might follow in China’s footsteps and more about the site blocking practice
04 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Russian Minister of Communications suggests ICO accreditation
In a continuous development of Russian legislation on cryptocurrency and initial coin offerings, the local Ministry of Communications wants to have a say too. Its head offers ICOs certification on certain conditions - currently unspecified on which exactly
04 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Chips in oil: a new mining farm
A mining farm the key components of which are partly in the vat of special oil - another example of atypical Bitcoin mining tool. Oil as a heat transfer tool is not a new idea, although it looks very strange in this occasion
04 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Hackers steal a million dollars from BeeToken
BeeToken, the digital currency startup based on Ethereum, has become a target of hackers. Miscreants launched the dissemination of phishing email messages simultaneously with the ICO launch. The screenshots show a message looking quite similar to the real one, indicating the hackers’ social engineering skills
01 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Bitcoin’s price decline to $8600 led to the loss of $44 billion market cap
The price of Bitcoin is becoming cheaper, and the capitalization shrinks simultaneously. Find out what the experts believe and what can happen next now that everybody’s talking about the fall
01 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Medvedev: cryptocurrency must be regulated on the international level
Russian Prime Minister talks about the joint regulation of digital currencies on the international scale, both within the framework of the EAEC and beyond. Previously there has been no EAEC-based cryptocurrency initiatives or even mentionings of them by the officials
01 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Moscow Arbitration Court orders bankrupt individual to disclose crypto wallet details
The order of the court in Moscow is issued before any cryptocurrency legislation in the state is implemented, which is unprecedented. The court desires insolvency proceedings in the form of cryptocurrency
01 February 2018 21:00, UTC
CBOE open to idea of altcoin futures while CME fears reputational costs
CME and CBOE both already have Bitcoin futures, but they think differently on the matter of altcoin futures. While CBOE is open to the concept, CME decides to stick with Bitcoin
01 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Coinbase sends its users a tax form
The big cryptocurrency exchange called Coinbase does not want any more discussions with the Internal Revenue Service and thus sends some clients a tax form. Learn about how likely that your account would receive anything similar
01 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Mythical unicorn and trash coins
Successful investment in ICO or in cryptocurrencies resembles meeting of a unicorn – there is a chance to meet it but it is pretty slim. Which projects may skyrocket and which projects may fade into oblivion?
01 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Financial Analyst FxPro Alexandr KUPZIKEVITCH
New mining viruses use the same breach WannaCry exploited
Yet another remote mining threat - when the money are transferred to the wallets of hackers, and mining is being done by the computers of victims. This time, hackers used the same breach as WannaCry authors did. Find out the botnet size and what botnet is
01 February 2018 21:00, UTC
Football player hired (partly) for Bitcoins
Harunustaspor, the football (soccer) club in Turkey, hires a player whose name Omer Faruk Kiroglu. Contrary to some headlines, the deal was not exclusively in bitcoins, cash was paid too
31 January 2018 21:00, UTC
India to eliminate cryptocurrency payments - Finance Minister
The government of India seems to have decided it will not welcome the use of cryptocurrencies within the country’s borders, reports one of the most respectable financial outlets. This decision has been confirmed by the Finance Minister of the country
31 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Cash App to enable Bitcoin buy-and-sell function
A mobile application developed by Square (headed by Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter) has enabled the function it’s been testing since autumn last year. The company sees Bitcoin as a long-term way towards better finance in the world
31 January 2018 21:00, UTC
The fate of ICOs
Bitnewstoday discusses the future fate of ICOs together with experts. Will startups be able to raise millions in seconds? Will the interest of investors to ICOs fade away this year? Will the regulative environment be established? Find out the answers in this article below
31 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Margareth Nail
FedEx to use blockchain
The popular mail delivery service believes blockchain fits its needs and joins the alliance dedicated to blockchain in transport to keep logistics in good condition and store records
31 January 2018 21:00, UTC