After a couple weeks without major movement, investors and acquirers are showing interest in bitcoin. First, CoinDesk acquired San Francisco-based bitcoin and blockchain investing news and market data startup Lawnmower for an undisclosed amount. Secondly, Kenyan payments platform startup BitPesa, which allows individuals and businesses...
Bitcoin’s value just broke $1,000. Again. And then went below. Again. Then up and down again. (Anyone else feeling seasick?) Following relatively flat growth through the end of January (by cryptocurrency standards, anyway), bitcoin’s value spiked, breaking $1,000 to reach a high of $1,003.92 in...
The price of the popular digital currency spent the week climbing back up after fears that China could crack down on its domestic exchanges caused its value to slump. However, recently the People’s Bank of China pointed to irregularities in the operations of bitcoin exchanges...
Last Friday (Jan. 6) was tough for bitcoin users around the world. Values that had soared to near record highs fell 23 percent, then recovered a bit. At the time of writing, the price of bitcoin sat at $892.62. While the sudden drop was at...
March 20, 2017
China’s central bank is expected to proceed with new bitcoin regulation that will require exchanges to identify clients and follow banking guidelines. MarketWatch reported that the increased scrutiny from the central bank has led many bitcoin exchanges to suspend withdrawals from their platforms and impose trading fees. As a result, Chinese investors have pulled back […]
February 10, 2017
After a couple weeks without major movement, investors and acquirers are showing interest in bitcoin. First, CoinDesk acquired San Francisco-based bitcoin and blockchain investing news and market data startup Lawnmower...
February 03, 2017
Bitcoin’s value just broke $1,000. Again. And then went below. Again. Then up and down again. (Anyone else feeling seasick?) Following relatively flat growth through the end of January (by...
January 20, 2017
The price of the popular digital currency spent the week climbing back up after fears that China could crack down on its domestic exchanges caused its value to slump. However,...
