Opera pre-installs new anti-mining measure in its ad blocker
In full accordance with previously voiced plans, the development team of Opera releases a set of measures intended for blocking in-browser mining scripts, to prevent a threat of tomorrow today
21 January 2018 21:00, UTC
EOS to announce its second VC partner tomorrow
The big project established by a team of experienced developers (which many current fintech-related projects often lack) is going to announce its second partner tomorrow, 23 January 2018. Opinions on who that might be vary
21 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Pavel Durov: don’t fall for scams related to Telegram ICO and Gram tokens
Unconfirmed news messages on the Telegram messenger ICO have filled the media lately, and the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov, who, by the way, has successfully invested in cryptocurrency, had to speak out after scammers started to appear
21 January 2018 21:00, UTC
OneCoin office searched by Bulgarian police
The Ponzi scheme posing as cryptocurrency has managed to infuriate several European authorities, with Bulgarian financial crimes enforcement agencies lately joining the group
21 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Indian banks suspend accounts of major crypto exchanges
India's largest banks have suspended accounts belonging to local major crypto exchanges as bitcoin price dropped on Sunday morning
20 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Analysis Of Ethereum Price During January Correction
When Ethereum as well as the whole crypto market will recover again? Is the recent price correction indeed a serious cause of concerns? Last year showed that there is nothing to worry about
18 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Finom’s Chief Strategy Officer, Dmitry Gollandtsev
Morgan Stanley to clean Bitcoin futures
Yet another major company will now clear Bitcoin futures (Goldman Sachs was the first one to start this). This will undoubtedly add more legitimacy to this cryptocurrency-related trading mechanism
18 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Peter Boockvar: Bitcoin may fall 10 times lower
Chief Investment Officer at Bleakley Advisory Group warns of a grim future for Bitcoin, making a rather bearish economic prognose. Read the details on what he thinks in this material
18 January 2018 21:00, UTC
VISA CEO Alfred Kelly: we will not work with Bitcoin directly
Quite possibly, one of the most influential persons on the traditional market makes a statement concerning possible engagement of VISA with Bitcoin. He responds negatively to the question about it and points out the volatility
18 January 2018 21:00, UTC
U.S. Treasury Deputy Secretary: cryptocurrencies are an evolving threat
Sharing the sentiment of the U.S. Treasury Secretary, the Deputy Secretary, too, thinks that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are too engaged in financial flows of criminal money transferred into this network for further anonymization
18 January 2018 21:00, UTC
South Korean traders were so upset that some broke computers as prices went down
The reaction of cryptocurrency traders in South Korea strikingly resembles how the movies show the price collapse of 1929
18 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Bitstamp and KuCoin pause Ethereum withdraw due to overloads
Bitstamp has already resumed the withdrawal of Ethereum, while KuCoin still has not. Both exchanges explain the pause by telling the network of ETH is overloaded. KuCoin even advised to use NEO instead
18 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Bitcoin mining makes more pollution than gold mining - analysis
While Bitcoin is not backed by physical assets, mining is what really backs it. And as the difficulty of the algorithm grows, so do the energy demands, and analysts came to conclusion that it impact to environment is higher than gold mining
18 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Sheba Jafari, Goldman Sachs: Bitcoin can fall under 10,000 and even reach 7,800
The market analyst whose previous prognoses on the price of Bitcoin repeatedly came true publishes a report again, where she tells about the correction of this cryptocurrency everybody is witnessing right now and further dynamics. Read what she thinks
17 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Russian Public Opinion Research Center: over half of Russians state they know about Bitcoin
The latest poll by the one of the oldest Russian polling institutions demonstrates a big progress in comparison to the surveys made in summer 2017. Read to find out how many percent of Russian population tells they don’t know anything about Bitcoin and the commentary of the Center’s consultant
17 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Cryptocurrency events, 18 January 2018: a video review
Bitnewstoday has once again prepared a digest for those cryptocurrency investors who prefer not to read separate publications and instead, watch videos on the topic. Here’s a bit of news our site has described today
17 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Choi Heung-sik, South Korean FSS: the regulator employees were indeed involved in insider trading
The local South Korean news message tells that the head the Financial Supervisory Service openly admitted that staff in the service indeed made profits on insider trading, no confirmation from American media yet
17 January 2018 21:00, UTC
New Congress bill dedicated to fintech task force, cryptocurrency directly mentioned
The new draft law offered for Congress to review is dedicated to a new team which will monitor and prevent illicit activities connected with digital currencies to combat terrorism. Members of the team will include both officials and private firm representatives
17 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Blockchain-related ETFs launched on NASDAQ
Several new ETFs have been launched on NASDAQ, and this event is effectively promoting blockchain for institutional investors who operated with this respected exchange years before blockchain was even invented
17 January 2018 21:00, UTC
Ledger gets a considerable investment of $75 million dollars
Ledger, one of the leaders in the sphere of hardware wallets able to store cryptocurrency in one of the most secure ways known today, gets a big, multimillion dollar sum from Draper Esprit PLC, investment firm with which Tim Draper works closely
17 January 2018 21:00, UTC