August 2017
Ethereum, Bitcoin Prices Rally Despite Sluggish Market
Ethereum, Bitcoin Prices Rally Despite Sluggish Market Bitcoin and ethereum continued to rally on Wednesday, pushing the total value of all cryptocurrencies higher even as the wider markets were mostly red. The bitcoin price punched through $4,500 to set a new all-time high, while the ethereum price looks poised to make a record-setting run of […]
Bitcoin Cash – The New King of Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin Cash – The New King of Cryptocurrency Less than a month ago, a few new lines of code and a verbal agreement forked the Bitcoin blockchain, creating a newer, more nimble version called Bitcoin Cash. Since its arrival on Aug. 1, the infant cryptocurrency has more than doubled in value from $300 to a […]
Miners Are Milking Bcash’s Difficulty Adjustments
Miners Are Milking Bcash’s Difficulty Adjustments Bitcoin Cash (Bcash or BCH) has been more profitable to mine than Bitcoin (BTC) on multiple occasions over the past week or two. This is creating a new dynamic within Bitcoin’s ecosystem — one which is not really beneficial for either coin. In Bitcoin Magazine's previous article on […]
Cryptocurrency Trading Helps Make Traditional Wall Street Traders Millionaires
Cryptocurrency Trading Helps Make Traditional Wall Street Traders Millionaires Wall Street’s traders Mike Komaransky and Chase Lochmiller have achieved greater financial success by trading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. They’re the only ones withdrawing their funds from stocks. In fact, CNBC reports that many stock traders are pulling out their billions from the stock market. […]
Monero Price Up 15% as World’s Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Prepares Integration
Monero Price Up 15% as World’s Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange Prepares Integration Monero, the world’s second largest anonymous cryptocurrency, is up 22 percent again today, on August 26. For many years, Monero has been regarded as one of the few cryptocurrencies that is highly legitimate, backed by an experienced and talented development team. It had […]
Standpoint Founder – Bitcoin Asset Class Will Grow Into $2 Trillion Market
Standpoint Founder – Bitcoin Asset Class Will Grow Into $2 Trillion Market Forget $5,000. At a time when many are making short-term bets on the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, one bitcoin bull is going a step further. Ronnie Moas, founder of Standpoint Research, is making the case cryptocurrencies will not only be […]
1,000 Universities: IBM’s Ambitious Plan to Fill Vacant Blockchain Jobs
There's a staffing problem in the blockchain industry: simply, there are too many open positions and too few blockchain specialists. Now, to help meet that rapidly increasing demand, IBM is partnering with Baruch College, Fordham University, University of Arkansas, University at Buffalo and the University of British Columbia to establish a series of grants, design blockchain curricula […]
$154 Billion – Bitcoin Price Rally Carries Crypo Markets to New Record
$154 Billion – Bitcoin Price Rally Carries Crypo Markets to New Record The bitcoin price rallied on Wednesday, leaping 9% to cross $4,200. The wider crypto markets followed bitcoin’s lead, with 93 of the top 100 cryptocurrencies marching into positive territory for the day. This near-universal advance added more than $10 billion to the total […]
Estonia could offer âestcoins’ to e-residents
Estonia could offer ‘estcoins’ to e-residents The proposal to issue crypto tokens would make the Republic of Estonia the first country with an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). What would happen if a country, such as Estonia, issued its own crypto tokens? This radical question is at the heart of an ambitious new proposal that, if […]
Cryptocurrency Mining – What It Is, How It Works And Who’s Making Money Off It
Cryptocurrency Mining – What It Is, How It Works And Who's Making Money Off It NVIDIA Corporation's second-quarter earnings released earlier this month, though exceeding expectations, elicited cautionary reaction from the investor as well as analyst communities. Traders bid down the stock by over 5 percent on Aug. 11. One of the reasons cited […]