2019-11-11 01:17 |
In this week’s Hodler’s Digest, a lottery winner’s big gamble on Bitcoin, Russia’s ambitious new law to confiscate BTC, and Hong Kong explores a central bank digital currency
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A resident of Illinois won half a million dollars in a state lottery and later claimed that he invested half of it in Bitcoin. The story went public recently when the Redditor Joxnlol who won the lottery posted an image of himself with the check. He affirmed that he invested half of the prize in […]
2019-11-6 00:24 | |
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Summing up the returns as at the end of the third quarter, Bitcoin is the best-performing asset year-to-date despite the September crash. Bitcoin is the Indisputable Winner On January 1, the oldest cryptocurrency out there started at $3,746, according to Coinmarketcap data.
2019-10-8 17:30 | |
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There are many metrics to ascertain the popularity of bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading in different geographic regions across the world. One of them is the most traded fiat currencies chart which has revealed some interesting results.
2019-8-28 13:00 | |
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Ever since Bitcoin (BTC) began to rally in April, altcoins fell out of favor with most in the crypto community. No longer were people looking for the next winner, they were instead trying to determine where the leading crypto asset would top out.
2019-7-1 00:00 | |
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After more than a year of discussions, ConsenSYS founder Joe Lubin and BTC evangelist Jimmy Song finally materialized a bet in which the future of the DApps will determine the winner. The two famous crypto.
2019-5-16 07:05 | |
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The price of Bitcoin (BTC/USD) is surging like crazy but what about altcoins? BTC’s rise close to $7,000 is pushing altcoins up as well but not as much as the flagship cryptocurrency is uptrending. Source: Coin360 Litecoin Marching Ahead & Ethereum Turns Attractive Among the top cryptos, Litecoin has turned out to be the winner. […]
2019-5-11 18:48 | |
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Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is of the opinion that cryptocurrencies should be “shut down. ” While contending that digital payment systems are the way of the future, the economist does not believe that decentralized currency is part of this trend.
2019-5-7 19:30 | |
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90 percent of all major asset classes posted positive dollar returns this April, with Bitcoin leading the way. What’s more surprising? That BTC rallied by more than 50 percent or that the Wall Street Journal recognized it as the biggest winner? Bitcoin Best Investment By Far It wasn’t only Bitcoin that had a disastrous 2018.
2019-5-6 15:00 | |
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The Winklevoss Twins are currently giving away 1 Bitcoin (BTC) among users that are able to spot and take a picture of the Gemini Crypto Bus. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the founders of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini.
2019-5-6 03:26 | |
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Cloudbet, the leading bitcoin casino, and sportsbook, has reported another huge casino winner. The lucky player walked away with an eye-watering 45 BTC in profits (nearly ˆ210,000 in today’s exchange rates) from a session in their Multifruit 81 bitcoin slot.
2019-4-16 15:17 | |
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The latest market surge catapulted the collective cryptocurrency market cap beyond the $160 billion mark. The digital gold, Bitcoin [BTC], emerged as the winner while LTC’s price rallied significantly following mild bullish projections throughout the week.
2019-4-2 11:05 | |
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Binance is the biggest cryptocurrency exchange according to the Coinmarketcap with 24-hours trading volume of $688 million. Binance Coin (BNB) is the cryptocurrency created by Binance for this platform.
2019-2-11 20:47 | |
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Yesterday, an auction was held by cryptocurrency and blockchain artist @cryptograffiti for a piece titled “black swan,” which the artist made using “fiat and counterfeit detector pen ink.
2018-12-21 20:15 | |
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The global cryptocurrency stock exchange Bithumb is holding its third commemorative event in celebration of its fifth anniversary. The ‘Super Airdrop Festival’ event has two parts, the Login Event and Air Drop Event, and is open to participation for anyone who is a Bithumb member.
2018-11-14 13:30 | |
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Chart for BTC/USD (1W) Bitcoin (BTC) might be the single biggest winner of the US China trade war that has left investors completely perplexed. The stock market is completely clueless as to what Trump might to next to escalate the trade war.
2018-9-13 17:00 | |
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This month, we celebrate Ethereum’s third birthday and reflect upon the many milestones that have occured in the industry since the dawn of the original smart contract blockchain.
2018-8-15 21:53 | |
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However, so far, the break above $6,400 has remained elusive, likely due to anemic trading volumes. Bitcoin’s total trading volume across all cryptocurrency exchanges fell to $2. 92 billion on Saturday, the lowest level since November 7, according to CoinMarketCap.
2018-7-16 15:09 | |
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In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Robert Shiller, a prominent economist, Yale University economics professor and Nobel economics prize winner Robert Shiller said that Bitcoin [BTC] is a generational and geographic phenomenon.
2018-6-27 21:24 | |
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Beyond economics, Bitcoin (BTC) is a “social movement” that runs along “generational and geographic” lines, Nobel economics prize winner Robert Shiller told Bloomberg Tuesday, June 26. Silicon Valley is really into it… It’s a social movement.
2018-6-27 01:02 | |
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Pallavi Thakur, Director of Strategy and Innovation at Swift, and Ryan Rugg from Citi shared insights at Money20/20 from their recent collaborative CBDC experiment. Both Thakur and Rugg cited the rapid progress of the global adoption of central bank digital…
Senator Kempis’ draft bill calls for a central bank digital currency to be legal tender in Mexico and claims state intervention is native to human rights.
A future powered by digital assets is assured as governments around the world look to technology for economic progress.
Soramitsu, the firm that helped build Cambodia’s Bakong digital payments system, will work with the Laos government to research what a Laotian CBDC might look like.
OKEx, Crypto.com, and LocalBitcoins have integrated Brazil’s PIX instant payments system.
Georgia's central bank has invited fintech firms and others to participate in the CBDC project.
The Bank of England (BoE) and Her Majesty’s Treasury (HM Treasury) have jointly created a task force for the UK’s proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC) project. Taskforce to Explore Modalities for UK’s CBDC In a press release published on Monday (April 19, 2021), the BoE and the HM Treasury instituted a Taskforce that wouldRead More