It’s up, it’s down, and news about it is all around. The sentiments apply to bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies of all stripes — and the exchanges on which they trade. The news at this writing was, of course, the notching of new highs for bitcoin —...
If it’s Friday, it must be the end of a wild week in the Wild West, where winded traders’ wondrous winnings are tallied and taken, lost and lamented. How’s that for an alliterative sentence? The numbers: Take Thursday. In what The Financial Times described as...
Reaching the peak interest among those in a particular industry just before it goes mainstream is something that’s happened on more than one occasion. Ranging from the housing bubble in the late 2000s to the dot-com bubble of the mid-’90s and the tech bubble of...
Distributed ledger technology (blockchain) has made significant headway this year, and people are starting to take notice. At the beginning of 2017, the cryptocurrency bitcoin was valued at just under $1,000 and soared up to over $3,000 in May. While it took a dive over...
October 14, 2018
Bitcoin was hit with an $18 billion market loss in just three days. CNBC reported that the digital currency stock price fell below $6,200 for the first time in a month, ending the week about 5 percent lower. Other cryptocurrencies had an even worse week: Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, dropped 12 percent, […]
April 21, 2017
Bitcoin’s (BTC) riding high once again as the third week of April rolls to a close. BTC values are rising to approach the all-time highs seen in early March before...
April 07, 2017
A beacon of hope has emerged for bitcoin just in time for spring — and it’s brought up prices with it. While the world’s most popular cryptocurrency recently suffered some...
March 31, 2017
This past week proved once again that it’s tough to be a bitcoin fan. In another blow to bitcoin legitimacy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied the...
