Bitcoin, the current hero of the cryptocurrency world, lost over $1,000 of its value in the past couple of days, dropping from the heady heights of nearly $8,000 down to around $6,100 (all prices USD). Some analysts suggest the tumble […]
Author: StevePrentice
Bitcoin Futures Through CME – A Crypto Too Big To Ignore
Bitcoin started yet another chapter in its intriguing life story with the announcement, by exchange owner CME Group, of plans to introduce bitcoin futures before the 2017 year is out. This would allow institutional investors to trade in bitcoin without […]
Crypto at University? It’s More Like Harry Potter than Tulips
“ Bitcoin mania has students flocking to crypto classes at Stanford and other top computer science schools,” says the headline of an online report from CNBC. The article goes on to describe a surge in interest in cryptography classes, spurred […]
Blockchain: It’s Like, This Thing
The Money 2020 Blockchain Industry Primer was released on Friday, October 27, 2017, compiled by two research analysts from Credit Suisse. They attended eight blockchain-related panels at the Money 2020 Conference held in Las Vegas, the week of October 22, […]
Bitcoin Price Fall After Fork, Here Is What Investors Should Know
The emergence of bitcoin gold as a third bitcoin currency – a result of the October 24 fork, has led market watchers to once again wonder whether a remarkable year for the first-born currency, bitcoin classic (BTC) has come to […]
I’ve Been a Miner for a Heart of Bitcoin Gold
The turbulent evolution of cryptocurrency took another significant step on October 24, 2017 with the activation of the Bitcoin Gold Fork on block 491,407 of the bitcoin blockchain. This was a hard Bitcoin fork, as opposed to a soft one, […]
In Russia, Blockchain Mines You – To the Tune of 13%
Russia’s announcement that it will soon issue its own cryptocurrency – the CryptoRuble – offers a significant perspective on the ongoing history of virtual currencies as well as the gradual conversion of domestic economies to blockchain. The issuance of this […]
Analysts At Big Bank Still Undecided As To Whether Crypto Is Real Money
People have struggled over the past few years with the idea of whether Bitcoin should really be considered fiat currency, or an asset of some sort, or something entirely new. Those who have followed the progress of Bitcoin and who […]
Fraud or Friend? Experts Face Off Over Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency
Big banks are threatened by crypto-currency, but that is not preventing one from predicting a giant move in BTC value over the coming years. It is fair to say that 2017 has so far been a banner year for cryptocurrency, […]
How To Avoid ICO Scams
As the world gets increasingly familiar with – and enthused about – the cryptocurrency-based marketplace, we have seen substantial growth in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). These generally represent a new-age version of the IPOs issued by companies who have wanted […]