Coinbase back online but halts ETH and LTC transactions, while its team joined by former PayPal president
One of the oldest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges decides to halt trading and gets a very valuable new team member who, apart from leading PayPal, formerly worked in Facebook
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Sirin Labs’ successful ICO: $50 million in 4 hours (football star Messi might be the reason)
Info from the press release Bitnewstoday received demonstrates a good example why initial coin offerings are much more efficient than traditional investment attraction methods
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Japanese and South Korean banks want to try out Ripple blockchain
Ripple is an altcoin with cross-border payments as its main feature, and their modification of blockchain continues to win hearts of traditional institution
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Lawyer's view: how to avoid scam ICO
Lead lawyer and expert on initial coin offerings in Russia tells Bitnewstoday how to keep your money safe and sound while investing in ICOs and which project features deserve more attention
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Dmitry MACHIKHIN, partner of GMT Legal, IMMO evangelist
Bitcoin in 2018: prognoses and fears
The year 2017 is coming to its end with some very positive results for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. BTC, for example, has grown more than tenfold, and altcoins have become a hedge tool for Bitcoin traders. What will 2018 bring?
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
The power couple that invested in Bitcoin in 2013 to donate revenue to cancer research
Generous gesture by Halle Tecco and Jeffrey Hammerbacher who, not unlike the Winklevoss brothers, invested in Bitcoin at its early stages
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
No, former New Zealand PM did not advise to buy Bitcoin
Initial messages about the former Prime Minister of New Zealand telling that Bitcoin investments is a good idea are denied by both the person from this news and by the New Zealand Herald, the outlet these unidentified crooks copied
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Belarus is going to become more liberal on ICOs than South Korea
The democratic state where people recently persuaded the President to resign has banned ICOs recently, and the authoritarian post-Soviet state is now risking breaking some fundamental stereotypes
12 December 2017 21:00, UTC
How to create your own cryptocurrency?
In this article Bitnewstoday.com how to create a cryptocurrency, how difficult it is and what kind of knowledge it is necessary to possess
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Cryptocurrency is #1 in Top 10 Most Searched Things and Phenomena in 2017 on Yandex, Russian search engine
The popular Russian search engine has made a rating of trends and divided them into categories, and cryptocurrency has become the leader in one of them, being more popular than fidget spinner and new iPhone models
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Ethereum Classic protocol update activated
The hard fork with ECIP 1017 proposal as a main feature is going to increase the productivity of the whole network, assure its supporters. Unlike with SegWit and especially SegWit2x in Bitcoin, no visible controversies arose
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Bitcoin Platinum is a fraud made by teenager
The supposed hard fork of Bitcoin protocol called Bitcoin Platinum actually was a scam created by a South Korean teenager who tried to play on Bitcoin’s price decrease
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Pavel Durov, creator of popular Russian social network, successfully invested in Bitcoin in 2013
Reports tell not only the Winklevoss twins (indirectly connected to Facebook) made a fortune on early Bitcoin investment. Pavel Durov, creator of Russian social network VK.com similar to Facebook, bought several thousands of BTC when it cost $750
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Experimental hard fork named Super Bitcoin activated
“Experimental” means this is only a test of most popular proposals for Bitcoin developed by some Chinese programmers. However, some exchanges already agreed to support it
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Lawyers from Kleinberg Kaplan: NASDAQ’s BTC futures sourcing will be better than in CBOE and CME
The two attorneys have been analyzing the rise of digital assets throughout the year, as a number of Kleinberg Kaplan clients were already involved in or have entered the space, including some launching their own cryptocurrency-focused funds
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Edward Tilly tells what he thinks on the first day of Bitcoin futures his company launched
Despite the warnings of skeptics, nothing apocalyptical happened and Bitcoin futures worked as intended. Everything went according to plan, assures Mr. Edward T. Tilly, head of Chicago Board Options Exchange
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
SEC makes Munchee refund thousands of dollars back to token buyers
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission decides to close the initial coin offering of Munchee, Inc. after it becomes apparent the company does not interpret the federal law as it should
11 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Investment expert Clem Chambers: “Which coins will dominate is down to a Darwinian process”
Forbes contributor tells Bitnewstoday about how cryptocurrency is similar to private money and tokens, on countries governance and the possible outcomes of the blockchain technology use
10 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Investment expert Clem Chambers
Fake MyEtherWallet application becomes #3 in Finance in AppStore
The fraudsters were detected by the real MyEtherWallet employees, report to Apple already sent, the whole situation reminds: cryptocurrency mobile apps far from ideal
10 December 2017 21:00, UTC
Everybody talks about Bitcoin, but Litecoin shows good dynamics too
The price rise of Bitcoin stimulates other cryptocurrencies to grow, it seems. Litecoin is showing positive dynamics since the beginning of this month
10 December 2017 21:00, UTC