Military coup or endless economic instability: what drove bitcoin to sky-high rate in Zimbabwe?
Last week, Zimbabwe was the focus of the entire world's cryptocurrency community. The military coup, that ousted president Robert Mugabe from power, led to a rapid rise of bitcoin price on the local exchange. What were other prerequisites for such a sharp increase in the price of the first cryptocurrency in Zimbabwe, read in the article of Bitnewstoday.com
22 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Dennis WAFULA
Not December: CME Group calls its previous BTC futures release date announcement an error
Chicago-based CME Group has really given hope for cryptocurrency enthusiasts with its announcement of Bitcoin futures trading, but the release date apparently delayed
21 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Rumor: JPMorgan might consider linking its futures-brokerage unit with CME’s BTC futures platform
The situation is amusing, as Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase head, previously vowed to fire anyone in his company who trades with bitcoins and called this currency a fraud
21 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Week in a review: ups & downs (Top-100 cryptocurrencies)
Bitnewstoday.com made a weekly review on price dynamics of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies in terms of capitalization. Which coins broke the record, and which - fell to the bottom, read in the article
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Margareth Nail
Mining can provide bail funds for poor thanks to this new project
Monero, the cryptocurrency often connected with cybercrimes, now serves as a means of help for those defendants who are too poor to be able to afford bails
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Russian VK social media might use crypto payments in the future
Bitnewstoday has managed to acquire screenshots from the website internal translation system that suggest the site at least had plans to use cryptocoins
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Power blockchain: Australia to invest $8 million in a new energy system project
The new generation of energy supply lines and power consumption monitoring systems — one of the most recent and prospective non-cryptocurrency blockchain applications
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs successfully cooperate on blockchain equity swaps
Two companies’ views on Bitcoin are very different, but it does not stop both of them from partnership on distributed ledger issue. The project’s focused on equity swaps
20 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Roger Ver: Bitcoin Cash is a real Bitcoin
As “Bitcoin Jesus” suggests, Bitcoin Cash has more rights to be called Bitcoin that the cryptocurrency with the original chain (which everybody else calls a real Bitcoin)
19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Bitcoin reaches $8000 and $8100
The first cryptocurrency grows in price amidst the positive market news, recovering after a short drop. Goldman Sachs was right about 8 thousand being an achievable price
19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Swiss companies to trade Bitcoin futures
As one could easily foresee, Chicago Mercantile Exchange remained the only company interested in Bitcoin futures for quite a short time period. Rivals already emerge
19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Bill Gurley, Benchmark: Bitcoin has ‘an incredible store of value’
The entrepreneur connected with the Silicon Valley business environment does not consider Bitcoin a toxic asset and even uses the cryptocurrency in his business activities sometimes
19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Casper ready for testnet stage, Ethereum development team says
Ethereum openness led to more than two possible protocol concepts. The leader of Ethereum Foundation proposes to combine all approaches to find the best security solution
19 November 2017 21:00, UTC
IRS vs. Coinbase: argument gets more heated
The court seems to have decided to support the Internal Revenue Service against one of the most popular exchanges and give the IRS grounds for tax probe
16 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Dell’s VMWare intends to use blockchain in future projects
Most major corporations of the world are becoming more and more fond of blockchain. Dell, while previously focused on cloud tech and servers, is among them too
16 November 2017 21:00, UTC
James Gorman, Morgan Stanley: Bitcoin is speculative, not worth paying attention
This is not the first time Morgan Stanley CEO voices his opinion on Bitcoin and digital currencies in general. This time, he is somewhat more skeptical about it
16 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Bithumb exchange faces lawsuits from angry traders after outage
The hype around Bitcoin Cash which we described in other messages led to an exchange server outage which, in turn, harmed the reputation of Bithumb disastrously
15 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Square tests Bitcoin support in its Cash app
Some experts even consider Square’s decision on payments to be the main reason Bitcoin recovered so fast from the recent drop of price of this cryptocurrency
15 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Bitcoin passes the crater and crawls back to the surface
The values of Bitcoin seen a week ago, on 10 November, are back. Looks like it was not the bubble burst as some skeptics have already started to think
15 November 2017 21:00, UTC
Parity team tells how the heck it managed to freeze $160 million of ETH
One of the most disastrous events of this autumn connected with Ethereum has been described in detail by the owners of the wallet platform on which it occurred
15 November 2017 21:00, UTC