Bitcoin continued its price climb today (Nov. 24), rising above $19,000 in the morning, CNBC reported. At 6:31 pm EST, the digital currency still hit high, sitting at $19,083.92, as the coin approaches its record price of $19,783, which it hit in December of 2017....
Prices of digital coins Ethereum and XRP surged on Mon. (Nov. 23), riding the wave of bitcoin’s recent shooting price. Traders credit Ethereum’s rise to growing demand and a network upgrade expected in early December. The upgrade will reportedly make the coin more secure and...
PayPal and Square’s Cash App digital currency buying spree has reportedly triggered a bitcoin rally, according to a Benzinga report on Monday (Nov. 23). Blockchain and digital currency investment firm Pantera Capital said in a report that after analyzing numbers from the cryptocurrency exchange iBit,...
Malicious actors have now managed to momentarily take control over several cryptocurrency platforms by scamming employees at GoDaddy, the domain hosting service for these sites, in multiple attacks. On Nov. 18, NiceHash discovered that hackers had been able to briefly redirect email and web traffic...
A Citibank senior analyst predicted that bitcoin could reach $318,000 by December 2021 in a report written for Citibank’s institutional clients, according to CoinDesk. Thomas Fitzpatrick’s report was leaked on Twitter Friday (Nov. 13) by user “ClassicMacro,” who noted in a tweet, “there is no...
The Albany Airport is using a blockchain-based app to track the cleanliness of surfaces and objects in the airport due to health concerns with the pandemic, according to a report from Cointelegraph. The Wellness Trace App was developed by General Electric in partnership with TE-FOOD and...
Silicon Valley’s Ripple, a blockchain payments startup, has filed a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for PayString, which will likely be a new offering, according to a report in CoinDesk on Friday (Nov. 13). Since its founding in 2012, Ripple has...
Crypto payment services provider BitPay has unveiled a new mass payout offering, BitPay Send, which lets entities of different sizes make payments to workers, clients, affiliates, suppliers, contractors and others with digital currency, according to a Thursday (Nov. 12) announcement. AdGate Media is among the...
The U.K. Treasury Department is researching use cases for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), as well as drafting regulatory proposals for private stablecoins, U.K. Treasurer Chancellor Rishi Sunak said in a press release. The announcement did not specify the regulations, but it did note...
