2020-5-21 00:29 |
Did Satoshi Nakamoto just move the Bitcoins that the court documents say belong to Dr. Craig Wright?
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Though the trade most likely did not go through, a drastic candle on Coinbase Pro saw 42,000 bitcoins sold at $0. 18. Traders noticed a strange candle on the BTC/USD trading pair on Coinbase Pro.
2020-4-7 18:03 | |
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After the shock of the coronavirus, stock markets turned down, erasing $6 trillion of value within a week. Here is how this value compares with Bitcoin. Stock Markets Still Make Bitcoin Valuations Look Insignificant The stock markets, a centuries-old and highly developed system handle trillions in value.
2020-3-1 18:00 | |
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– Are you investing in Bitcoins? – Are you the owner of other coins besides Bitcoin? – Are you investing in Altcoins? – Are you search and invest in less popular coins? As the crypto market matured, so did the entire ecosystem around it.
2019-12-18 00:31 | |
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Believe it or not, I bought my first bitcoin using a certain amount of USD on my Amazon account. And I did not earn it, that was my friend’s birthday gift. Yeah, Amazon gift card! Before I thought I might do some web search, and search engines listed several sites that were selling bitcoins for […]The post Trade Amazon Gift Cards for Bitcoins Instantly appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.
2019-11-18 14:29 | |
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Technically speaking, it’s impossible to destroy bitcoins. But it is possible to send coins to an unspendable address, rendering them redundant to all intents and purposes. In October 2011, that’s exactly what Mark Karpeles did when he consigned 2,609 BTC to eternal oblivion due to a scripting error.
2019-9-21 06:30 | |
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The price of the largest cryptocurrency by market cap Bitcoin witnessed a 7. 15% fall in the last 24 hours. Not very long ago, Bitcoin was seen surpassing $12,000, which did not last long as the price of the coin slumped down to $10,487, at the time of writing.
2019-8-14 14:44 | |
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News is emerging that the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, has been the victim of an attempted ransom demand from a scammer. The attacker threatened to release KYC information if the company did not cough up 300 Bitcoins.
2019-8-7 11:44 | |
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LocalBitcoins, one of the most popular P2P cryptocurrency exchange services, removed the option to make exchange operations with bitcoins in a personal meeting. The company did not comment or announce this step.
2019-6-3 10:54 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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The curious case of Bulgaria’s alleged hoard of 200,000 bitcoins resurfaced again this week as sources claimed the Balkan country was HODLing cryptocurrency. Report: Bulgaria Sold All Its BTC Seemingly referencing a press release from May 2017, TrustNodes led the renewed media interest in a story about how Bulgarian authorities confiscated the BTC after taking down an unknown criminal operation.
2019-5-24 14:00 | |
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Avoid Hacking Your Funds With Binance Less than a month ago the largest cryptocurrency exchange was the object of a hacking of seven thousand bitcoins, which at the time of the computer crime, amounted to almost $ 40 million dollars.
2019-5-22 21:21 | |
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The Bitcoin bull market is changing investor habits – but the vast majority of the supply has stayed in the same wallet since 2018. 10. 5 Million Bitcoins Dormant Analysis of data from BitInfoCharts and social media transaction monitoring resource Whale Alerts produced some interesting reading this week.
2019-5-20 18:00 | |
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By CCN: Blockstream CEO Adam Back told the What Bitcoin Did podcast that the block reshuffling proposed by Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao would raise “geopolitical issues” had it been attempted. Accept That Bitcoin Is Final Back explained why the idea of a chain reorganization as a means to punish hackers or rescue lost bitcoins is a terrible idea.
2019-5-15 12:25 | |
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It isn’t often that we witness a greater inherent bias against Bitcoin than that of Nouriel Roubini. But The New York Post yesterday published a headline claiming Roubini called bitcoins ‘sh*tcoins’ at a conference discussion.
2019-5-10 00:00 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Since May 1, 2019, bitcoin’s price has been rising, reaching a top of over $6,000. As the whole cryptocurrency industry was enjoying the rise, an unexpected hack put a stop to the rise of bitcoin.
2019-5-10 18:48 | |
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Chinese crypto exchange Binance suffered a major hack on Tuesday, which the company’s CEO responded to by proposing a rollback of the Bitcoin blockchain to rectify — a suggestion that riled up the community.
2019-5-8 21:39 | |
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) announced that it will not list upcoming Cboe Bitcoin (“XBT”) futures contracts for trading in March 2019. The Cboe Futures Exchange said that the company is “assessing its approach with respect to how it plans to continue to offer digital asset derivatives for trading,” stating that it has no intention to list additional contracts for trading relating to the cryptocurrency.
2019-3-16 01:00 | |
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Mark Karpeles, the former head of defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox, will unlikely serve time in jail following a significant acquittal by a Japanese court. Court: Karpeles Did Not Embezzle Bitcoins As multiple sources including Bloomberg reported March 14, Karpeles, who has been under suspicion for embezzling millions of dollars in user funds, is guilty only of record tampering in the eyes of Japanese law.
2019-3-15 14:00 | |
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In November 2018, we reported a story about Ohio becoming the first ever American state to accept bitcoins as a payment to resolve tax bills. It had permitted businesses to register with the state via OhioCrypto.
2019-2-21 17:01 | |
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During a few months of 2014, Michell Espinoza sold Bitcoin to undercover agents related to the Miami Polic Department that was working with the US Secret Service. The individual did not know that he was selling he Bitcoin to these individuals.
2019-2-1 06:51 | |
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Venezuela traded more bolivars for bitcoins than ever before last week. Volumes on P2P trading platform Localbitcoins reaching 15. 7 billion VES ($10 million) amid increasing political instability.
2019-1-28 19:00 | |
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This is the fourth instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 , on Day 2 and on Day 3.
2019-1-19 00:10 | |
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Mobile cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer wallet Shakepay has announced a new product that allows its Canadian customers to buy bitcoin with spare change. Dubbed "ShakePay Change," the pre-launch of the service was announced in a Medium post.
2018-12-18 02:32 | |
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Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
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Wednesday last week was the day when Bitcoin dropped about $1000 in value from around $6300 to approximately $5300. The drop was followed by some days of trading within a range which signaled that another drop could follow.
2018-11-21 18:04 | |
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The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network hosts several podcasts for regular discussion topics in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, including the popular weekly show What Bitcoin Did.
2018-11-20 22:58 | |
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According to a recent study, the total amount of Bitcoin seized is 2.6% of the circulating supply. However, how is that possible for governments to seize Bitcoin when they require the private key of the funds? Well, it seems that several individuals and criminals did not follow the best practices to store their Bitcoins. A […]
2018-11-8 00:50 | |
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Clash of the Bitcoins Heats up as Bitcoin Cash [BCH] Releases its New Smart Contract Language Spedn Much like in Genesis, in the beginning, there was nothing. With time there were numerous iterations to the blockchain.
2018-10-27 20:35 | |
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In an outrageous stunt, akin to a TV drama episode, an organization representing indigenous tribes in Canada had to fork out a ransom in bitcoins. This, just so they could get access to their computer systems.
2018-10-27 07:44 | |
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A blockchain analyst observed this week that one of the earliest miners of Bitcoin (BTC) has been cashing out a crypto fortune (approx. 30,000 bitcoins) up until the height of crypto mania in January 2018 when the digital gold was trading near $20,000 USD.
2018-9-29 23:00 | |
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Think you know the ins-and-outs of bitcoin? Test yourself with 30 questions that grill you on Bitcoin’s history, technology and politics. The 30 questions are split up into three segments ranging from novice to intermediate to expert, and cover a wide range of topics across the Bitcoin landscape.
2018-9-26 02:13 | |
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Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances.
2018-9-15 21:50 | |
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Did you know that Bitcoins can be bought by iTunes gift cards? This is an option not available on many forums but there is a blockchain based platform that offers this handy feature. Paxful is a platform that not only offers all features of a Bitcoin wallet, but also acts as a peer to peer […]
2018-6-18 01:52 | |
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All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.
2018-6-15 23:31 | |
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There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether, a cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U. S. dollar. According to Tether, each Tether token is backed by one U.
2018-6-14 22:01 | |
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South Korea just ruled that bitcoin is a legally recognizable asset, which is good news for investors, but not such good news for convicted criminals that had managed to hold onto their cryptocurrency in the past.
2018-6-11 18:04 | |
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Ten years after his passing, Hal Finney's pioneering work in cryptography and computer science continues to inspire the Bitcoin community.
Under Elon Musk’s leadership, Twitter suspended a number of accounts including those controlled by high-profile journalists and social networking platform Mastodon.
Under Elon Musk’s leadership, Twitter suspended a number of accounts including those controlled by high-profile journalists and social networking platform Mastodon.
At the time the first BTC was sent, there wasn’t even a cash value associated with the crypto asset, compared to the more than $43,000 it is on Wednesday, Jan. 12.
A touching sculpture dedication pays tribute to the legendary cryptographer Hal Finney and his love of running.
According to cypherpunk and bitcoin contributor, Adam Back, Hal Finney's $10 million price point for bitcoin isn't too far fetched. The post Adam Back: $10 Million Bitcoin Prediction Is ‘Closer Than It Sounds’ appeared first on CCN.com