How to Setup Bitcoin Cold Storage: In this guide, we will walk you through setting up your very own cold storage wallet. Before diving into the process, you may be wondering what is cold storage? In simple terms, cold storage refers to keeping your bitcoin completely offline. Cold storage, also known as a cold storage … Read more
How to Buy Bitcoin Online: So, you heard about Bitcoin from a friend or maybe from a news post. You may have even read some of our articles on how to get started using Bitcoin. Now, you want to buy some Bitcoin but you are not sure how to actually do it? Once you have … Read more
Rise of the Bitcoin Politician: Austin Petersen’s Scrappy Run for US Senate: In the run-up to the 2018 November federal elections in the United States, at least three politicians are accepting bitcoin in a donation, including an incumbent House member. One hopeful, Austin Petersen, is openly discussing the world’s most popular cryptocurrency’s benefits in his … Read more
Once Coy, Hedge Funds Now Rush to Bitcoin: Bulls are on parade as hedge funds pour money into bitcoin-related projects and products. Traditional hedges have been outperformed by cryptocurrency funds in 2017, and the phenomenon has turned into a full-fledged feeding frenzy. New indices are popping up to track it all. Ecosystem stalwarts Bitgo and … Read more
Bitcoiners Increasingly Targeted by Police as Prices Yield Large Forfeiture Gains: The Department of Justice has announced another potential auction of seized bitcoin, totalling over 8 million USD. There’s a noticeable uptick in bitcoin-related prosecutions since at least 2014 and the Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road affair. With the price of bitcoin rising to stratospheric heights, … Read more
Bitcoin Can’t Stop Breaking Things: When bitcoin futures trading went live on Sunday night, there were sniggers from the cryptocurrency community after Cboe’s website was instantly knocked offline. “Welcome to bitcoin,” went the refrain. Disruption of service is all part of daily life at several of the web’s largest bitcoin exchanges. In the last 24 … Read more