Bitcoin Capital, a venture capital fund initiated by the celebrated finance journalist Max Keiser, is hinting to close on a very optimistic note. According to the details available at BnkToTheFuture.com, the VC fund has already generated a little over $1 million upon receiving support from 580 backers (at press time), especially when there are still […]
Online shopping retailer overstock.com recently announced the issue of a $25 million corporate bond on the Bitcoin’s underlying technology, the blockchain. As indicated in its press release, the Nasdaq company plans to attract hedge funds, private equity groups and other potential investors towards purchasing the “first-ever” blockchain bond, roughly titled as cryptosecurity. With the launch, Overstock […]
A weak MA buy signal formed in the 15-minute and 1-hour Bitcoin price charts earlier today but traders did not take the bait. The market evidently lacked the motivation to trade price higher and tipped into an inevitable decline instead. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3 hour delay. Read the full analysis […]
Are you a Bitcoin skeptic? I hope not… Most of the vocal critics of bitcoin and cryptocurrency seem to be concerned about the “anonymity” associated with bitcoin transactions. According to some of them, because of the so-called anonymity, bitcoins are “made to order” for terror organizations to raise funds. Well I have some news for them – […]
Angel investor Joe Maristela explores what people in the bitcoin space can learn from regulatory developments in the Philippines surrounding Uber.
It’s almost surreal, watching KnCMiner take the mining industry by storm again. After I wrote the article about them facing a lawsuit, I received more than twenty e-mails thanking me. People were telling me their story, how KnC strung them along for months, dangling their money and promising to make it worth their while, but […]
According to the mainstream press, Bitcoin has died…Many, many times. That’s why Jordan Tuwiner started Bitcoin Obituaries – to compile the many obituaries which have been written about the nascent cryptocurrency Bitcoin. He had noticed a preponderance of articles claiming Bitcoin would soon be gone.. “I wanted to collect the articles and make a monument showing […]
Augur, a fully-decentralized, open-source prediction market platform based on blockchain technology, intended to revolutionize forecasting, decision-making and the manner in which information consensus is collected and aggregated, has been selected as one of the five finalists in the “Breakthrough” category at the XCS Challenge at Exponential Finance 2015. The Singularity University and CNBC hosted the […]
Swiss ASIC miner developer Bitmine AG was officially declared bankrupt by the local court of Bellinzona, Switzerland, in May 2015. All accounts, assets and company documents have been handed over to the Swiss justice ministry and are under investigation. In an open letter released on the official website of Bitmine AG, the company’s management claimed […]
After a year of beta testing, the first version of BitPay’s multi-signature wallet Copay was released on June 3. Copay is a multi-signature wallet built on BitPay’s Bitcore, an open-source platform for bitcoin- and blockchain-based applications. Copay multi-sig wallet is a shared bitcoin wallet, in which each owner holds a unique private key and the […]