2019-8-27 02:15 |
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Bitcoin hit the $51,000 mark earlier this month amid doubt following a historic poor run of form in September. The cryptocurrency giant has always had bad Septembers, being in the red zone six out of the last eight.
2021-9-26 23:07 | |
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New Zealand‘s tax authorities have deemed it legal for companies to pay its employees in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Companies will also be able to deduct income taxes using current PAYE (pay as you earn) frameworks under the Income Tax Act 2007.
2019-8-12 14:02 | |
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Yesterday saw the release of ‘What Bitcoin Did’ podcaster, Peter McCormack’s legal defence against Craig Wright. Wright sued McCormack for libel over tweets suggesting that he wasn’t really Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
2019-8-10 13:00 | |
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Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano received a verbal beating for disclosing that 50% of his portfolio is in Bitcoin. Question is…is his lack of diversification a bad thing? Is Pomp Crazy? Earlier this week, Anthony Pompliano participated in a CNBC Squawk Box panel which discussed macro-economics and its impact on Bitcoin price action.
2019-8-10 00:00 | |
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Mark Cuban thinks gold and Bitcoin are fundamentally supply-and-demand-driven collectibles, and that the yellow metal is a bad investment asset
2019-8-10 23:04 | |
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The blockchain industry remains confident on its way towards mass adoption: at this point, even U. S. Senators agree that the technology’s dominance is “inevitable”. However, there is an Achilles heel: Bitcoin (BTC), at least in its current stage, is bad at scaling, and so are most of the coins.
2019-8-8 17:07 | |
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Gresham law is driving crypto to replace fiat, is how Clem Chambers, the CEO of private investors website ADVFN defines the current Bitcoin and fiat situation. The ongoing US-China trade war, Chambers explains, means yuan is bad money and BTC the good one.
2019-8-6 20:03 | |
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Facebook’s foray into crypto has made the firm few friends in political circles. The Libra backlash has been so bad that it has painted bitcoin and the rest of the crypto industry in a bad light.
2019-8-3 13:30 | |
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Bitcoin mining rig manufacturer, Bitmain, reportedly made losses of $625 million in the first two months of 2019. However, it has high hopes for a turnaround based on demand for new 7nm mining machines.
2019-8-3 12:51 | |
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Everybody in the crypto industry knows how some people have a pretty bad opinion of Bitcoin. Said to be the currency used by scammers and criminals, Bitcoin is often the target of severe criticism. Fortunately, a recent experiment made by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab has proved that only a small fraction of the Bitcoin […]
2019-8-3 00:56 | |
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Scarcity is the mother of all demand. History is littered with a multitude of symbols portraying the importance of ‘balance;’ whether it be with life and death, good and bad or order and chaos.
2019-8-2 17:15 | |
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Yesterday saw yet another U. S. Senate Banking Committee hearing on regulatory frameworks for digital currencies and blockchain. Libra got another bashing, and Chairman, Mike Crapo, surmised the U.
2019-7-31 15:00 | |
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The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), a non-profit trade association made up of firms in India’s information technology and business process outsourcing industry, has kicked against the government’s move to make bitcoin trading as well as transactions involving other blockchain-based digital assets illegal, reports LiveMint on July 30, 2019.
2019-7-31 11:00 | |
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In a juicy little chunk of news from the Redditsphere, a user claiming to be a former IRS employee has called the agency’s new crypto compliance letters “broad and very error-prone fishing expeditions.
2019-7-30 16:45 | |
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The United Kingdom gained a new Prime Minister this week, voted for by Conservative party members. But will Boris be bad for Bitcoin? Or perhaps cause prices to rise? Maybe Boris isn’t the answer to all our questions and we should be looking elsewhere… like the rest of the weeks news, for instance.
2019-7-28 14:00 | |
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There has been a lot of speculation recently as to whether US president Donald Trump’s recent tweets on bitcoin and crypto were good or bad for the industry. The doom merchants will cheers his dollar pumping comments but industry leaders see it as a boost for crypto in general.
2019-7-24 21:00 | |
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Bitcoin is often nicknamed digital gold, but how does it stack up against physical gold in terms of returns and scarcity? YTD Returns: Bitcoin Exceeds Gold by a Mile If you had invested $1,000 in gold at the start of the year, you would have had about $110 in profits, which is not that bad.
2019-7-23 17:00 | |
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Yesterday, the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. But did the week’s crypto news give any indication of ‘When Moon?’ for Bitcoin? Bitcoin Price: Another Week Of Consolidation So it’s been another week of consolidation for bitcoin price, which is never a bad thing long term.
2019-7-21 15:00 | |
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Back in the middle of May, The CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Waffen Buffett made the news headlines in a big way thanks to his rather lavish spending in the pool of Amazon Equities. As of May 15th, Berkshire Hathaway officially added an extensive amount of Amazon stock to its portfolio for the very first time. […]
2019-7-20 23:26 | |
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Listening to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin talk about money-laundering, cash, and Bitcoin, you come to one of two possible conclusions: Mnuchin does not know what money-laundering is, or… Mnuchin is lying about the role of cash in money-laundering to make Bitcoin look bad.
2019-7-18 22:12 | |
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US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin again turned his attention to bitcoin this week, warning that the Trump administration would pursue “very, very strong” enforcement of existing financial regulations to stop bad actors from using the cryptocurrency to bankroll criminal activities.
2019-7-18 16:29 | |
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With cryptocurrency’s entry into mainstream finance, discussions surrounding Bitcoin have taken a hold of the economy as a whole. Towards this effort, Morgan Creek Capital’s Anthony Pompliano interviewed Crescat Capital’s Otavio Costa.
2019-7-18 14:30 | |
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Yesterday’s US Congress hearing was largely about lambasting Libra and Facebook’s financial global domination ambitions. A few other snippets emerged from the meeting, however, and not all are bad for bitcoin and the crypto industry.
2019-7-18 12:00 | |
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Crypto Twitter (CT) is filled with half-witted commentary and price predictions by so-called luminaries, maximalists, and influencers. As the price of BTC has dropped to four figures, the usual tweets from CT thought leaders has insisted that this is the last chance to buy bitcoin for under $10,000.
2019-7-18 02:30 | |
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The crypto community is still reacting to US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s recent commentary on bitcoin and its brethren. The asset itself reacted strongly with a 6% pump on the day and many have taken the positives from the speech, some claiming that it is ‘wildly bullish’.
2019-7-16 11:00 | |
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Bloody Monday has been a harsh start to the week for many crypto assets, including Ethereum. Bitcoin’s return to four figures has caused a digital avalanche for altcoins as markets bleed out over $35 billion in 24 hours.
2019-7-15 17:00 | |
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Bitcoin might have outperformed the global bond market in 2019, but it remains a bad investment, believes Roy Sebag of GoldMoney (TSX: XAU). The founder & chief executive officer last week presented bitcoin as a system that spends billions of dollars off its annual earnings to merely survive.
2019-7-14 14:12 | |
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You know those weeks when the world just seems to be on your side. Everything goes right, and even seemingly unrelated events conspire to work out in your favour? Well Bitcoin just had one of those weeks.
2019-7-13 14:00 | |
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There are a lot of Bitcoin (BTC) skeptics out there, who put down the king coin because of its volatility. With a hike in the past few days (and a drop in the last 24hrs) Bitcoin has shown its high volatility.
2019-7-11 18:03 | |
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There are quite some ‘bitcoin detractors’ out there, who often denounce the digital asset for its volatility. With another pump today there is no doubt that BTC has been as volatile as ever over the past few weeks but is it such a bad thing? Bitcoin Price Back To $13000 Yet again bitcoin price has surged during Asian trading, breaking $13,000 a couple of hours ago.
2019-7-10 15:00 | |
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Losing money hurts a lot. When you lose it because you made a bad investment is already pretty awful, but when you are scammed, it hurts even more. Now, if the thieves actually text you to explain that they robbed your money, well, that’s just a tragedy. This is what happened to an Australian couple […]
2019-7-5 23:40 | |
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Cryptocurrency service providers were struck by an unexpected technical mishap on Cloudflare that deemed their servers inaccessible to users reports The Next Web. Cloudflare confirmed the outage in a blog post, acknowledging the downtime as a result of bad software, July 2, 2019.
2019-7-3 12:22 | |
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In a bid to make it harder for drug traffickers, fraudsters, and other bad actors to launder money both in the form of cryptocurrency and fiat, the Netherlands’ Minister of Finance, Wopke Hoekstra, and Minister of Justice, Joseph Grapperhaus, have submitted new anti-money laundering (AML) proposals to the nation’s Lower House of Parliament, according toRead MoreRead More.
2019-7-2 19:00 | |
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Enjoying the bitcoin disbelief rally in the last two weeks? Enjoy it while you can because exponentially strong moves like this tend to typically fall hard. We are seeing the first consequences in the last 24 hours.
2019-6-28 22:00 | |
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Money has come a long way since its origins. From cowry shells to crypto, transferable, divisible, and economically sound means of exchange have been adopted by market actors everywhere. Modern history has brought us to a dangerous place, however, a cultural climate where politics and bad economics have co-opted monetary utility in the name of […] The post The Politicization of Money: Crypto as a Safeguard Against Economic Propaganda appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-6-27 18:40 | |
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Hackers have hijacked the official Twitter handle of Tesco, a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with over 3,400 stores scattered across the globe. The bad actors tried to orchestrate a bitcoin (BTC) giveaway scam with the account without much success, according to a BleepingComputer report from June 25, 2019.
2019-6-27 13:00 | |
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John McAfee, who is running his presidential campaign out of Cuba, is an altcoin believer. He thinks privacy coins will be the next big thing, and you can’t take that away. The prices of many solid alt coins were hit ten times as bad as Bitcoin during the Bear market, yet many are based on […] The post John McAfee Says Privacy Coins Are the Future appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-6-27 20:00 | |
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Hackers have planted cryptocurrency mining malware on the computers of the Ukrainian State Judicial Administration (SJA), secretly minting privacy-centric monero (XMR) altcoin for over six months, reports Finance Magnates on June 24, 2019.
2019-6-25 21:00 | |
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Hackers have found a way to exploit loopholes in open Android Debug Bridge (ADB) ports, a client-server program used in the development of Android applications, to mine blockchain-based digital assets.
2019-6-24 17:00 | |
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The cryptospace has matured since 2017, due to the intervention of the SEC and other regulatory bodies around the world. However, these actions have also restricted the growth of the market in a way.
2019-6-23 00:30 | |
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Facebook’s Libra project took the crypto community by the storm, and suddenly everyone is ONLY talking about Libra. Being a journalist, one bad thing that could happen to you after a huge news breaks is that the conversation gets stuck.
2019-6-22 03:30 | |
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By CCN Markets: Cryptocurrency evangelist and educator Andreas Antonopoulos has warned that the bull run the bitcoin price has been enjoying has revived fraudulent activities in the crypto space. Bitcoin price has tripled and scammers want to ride the wave In a series of tweets, Antonopoulos indicated that the prolonged crypto winter had driven scammers away.
2019-6-21 17:46 | |
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Bitcoin‘s hash rate is skyrocketing, setting a new all-time-high and flying in the face of Facebook’s ambitious Libra cryptocurrency — a remarkably healthy sign for the world’s most popular blockchain.
2019-6-20 17:15 | |
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There has been no shortage of opining over Facebook’s foray into crypto this week. Most industry heavyweights are in agreement that Libra is about as far from bitcoin as the greenback is, but the new digital offering will have an impact on the crypto scene, and it may not be that bad.
2019-6-20 10:00 | |
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Bitcoin has risen above $9,000, as of Sunday. The new Facebook stablecoin may allow for the Winklevoss brothers and Mark Zuckerberg to be “frenemies.” The dispute between Mark Zuckerberg and the Winklevoss twins – Cameron and Tyler – has been heavily publicized, even providing the basis for the feature film The Social Network. Years ago, […]
2019-6-19 02:59 | |
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The crypto world was (somewhat) shocked when the Bitwise report affirmed that over 90% of all Bitcoin trading volume was fake. Such a high number of companies failing to provide accurate data on the market was deemed as a pretty bad and CoinMarketCap had to do something about it, as its credibility was in check. […]
2019-6-18 21:54 | |
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Bitcoin Could Soon Find Resistance While the crypto industry was hit with a string of bad news, Bitcoin (BTC) has rallied hard over recent days. As of the time of writing this, the leading cryptocurrency.
2019-6-16 04:23 | |
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While you’re free to air your opinion about a thing, you should also be ready for the comments of others about your opinion. The latter can be summarized into the duel between Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and the Bitcoin community.
2019-6-15 20:16 | |
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Peter Schiff, the CEO of brokerage firm Euro Pacific Capital, believes Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency will outcompete Bitcoin on stability and fees. BTC advocate Anthony Pompliano disagreed, suggesting the two would help each other grow.
2019-6-15 08:56 | |
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Facebook is Bad for Bitcoin? June 18th is nearing, and that means that Facebook’s crypto asset, expected to be nothing like Bitcoin, is on the verge of becoming full public knowledge. For those who missed.
2019-6-15 07:52 | |
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Key takeaways Bitcoin remained under pressure after Iran announced that it would not permit inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to access its damaged nuclear facilities, The leading cryptocurrency has dropped to the $62,300 level, down 3.
Key takeaways Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and XRP are starting the week on a more stable footing after last week’s declines. BTC is trading above $64,000 but remains below major moving averages, keeping the broader trend bearish.
Key takeaways Bitcoin remains vulnerable as hawkish Federal Reserve guidance, rising Treasury yields, and inconsistent ETF demand continue to dampen investor sentiment. With BTC trading below key moving averages and lacking strong buying momentum, the near-term bias remains bearish.
Key takeaways BTC is up 4% and is now trading above the $66,500 level. The rally comes following reports of a preliminary peace agreement between the United States and Iran. Bitcoin extends recovery following geopolitical breakthrough Bitcoin (BTC) has surged above $66,600 on Monday after gaining 4% during the previous week, supported by improving global […] The post Bitcoin surges above $66,000 as US–Iran peace deal boosts sentiment appeared first on CoinJournal.
Key takeaways The oversold technical conditions may limit the pace of the decline, but the broader market structure remains bearish. The structure will remain bearish unless BTC can reclaim the $64,000 region and build momentum back above key moving averages.
Bitcoin price has dipped to under $70,000 for the first time since early April. Negative triggers include ETF outflows, corporate sales, and large on‑chain transfers. With macro and geopolitical volatility persisting, bulls may struggle to reclaim recent highs.
Bitcoin price fell to below $75,000 on Wednesday, touching $74,600. ETF outflows and broader market headwinds mean downside pressure remains. Analysts say the current price outlook includes a “dangerous divergence”.