Indian Police Forces Break up Gang Preying on Bitcoin Investors: The incredible bitcoin price rally this year has attracted a lot of new people to the cryptocurrency world, many of them just looking to make a quick buck without understanding too much what they are getting into. Naturally, this kind of situation attracts criminals that … Read more
European Union financial affairs commissioner, Pierre Moscovici. EU Finance Commissioner: The Political Body Has No Plans to React to Bitcoin – Some members of the European Union have been discussing the popularity of the decentralized currency bitcoin, and the EU’s political body recently added “digital currencies” to its anti-money laundering statutes. However, the EU commissioner for … Read more
Twenty Years Ago, Two Men Predicted Bitcoin: Clinton began his second term as President of the United States. Titanic dominated the box office. Hanson’s “MMMBop” stormed music charts. The year, 1997, also turned out to be when two cranks, fringe thinkers, wrote The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (TSI), published by … Read more
Would you want to get paid in Bitcoin? Bitcoin. Lots of people are talking about, but very few own it. So how would you feel about getting paid in the high profile cryptocurrency? From early next year, staff at Japanese internet firm GMO Group will be among the latest to find out how that feels. … Read more
Bitcoin rises back above $16,000, rallying more than 50 percent from Friday’s low: In the latest news, Bitcoin rallied Tuesday, recovering from a sharp sell-off late last week. The digital currency briefly climbed more than 12.5 percent to above $16,100 late Tuesday morning, according to Coinbase, the leading U.S. platform for trading major digital currencies. … Read more
Cryptocurrencies Proxy Stocks Rally as Bitcoin Rebounds Above $15,000: In the latest development, Bitcoin’s rebound from a five-day rout has drawn investors back to stocks related to cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Riot Blockchain Inc. jumped 18 percent, while LongFin Corp. added 20 percent. Both had fallen more than 30 percent in the past four days … Read more