Tom Lee: Bitcoin’s $8,000 Recovery Confirms Crypto Winter is Ended
Winter arrived, and much like the final episode of the Game of Thrones television series, it must some day come to an end. According to market strategists Fundstrat‘s ever-bullish Tom Lee, the weekend’s remarkable push back up of Bitcoin to revisit USD 8,000 so soon after a crash, is the final proof he requires to […]
Charlie Shrem: Mt Gox Created “Token as Debt”, Not Bitfinex
Bitcoin advocate and founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, Charlie Shrem, has blamed defunct Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox as the instigator of “token as debt”, instead of Bitfinex, the exchange that issued tokens as debt to its customers following its own hack. In a discussion of Bitcoin related scandals with Bitcoin miner J Maurice on […]
Over 50% of Bitcoin Full Nodes Still Have Inflation Bug
Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr has revealed to CoinTelegraph that more than half of the full nodes securing the Bitcoin network have yet to upgrade to a version of client software that fixed the inflation bug detected in September 2018. This means that the network is still under a certain level of threat to Bitcoin’s […]
Mastercard Invests $1 Billion into India Fintech
Global payment processor Mastercard has revealed a USD 1 billion investment commitment to financial technology (fintech) development in India over the next five years, reports online fintech portal Techiexpert. According to the source, this follows an earlier investment of the same amount made in the previous five years ending 2019. This second tranche of funding […]
Bitcoin Shrugs Off Selling Pressure to Start Week Above $8,000
Bitcoin prices have begun to found some solid ground after yesterday’s bulls ensured that most of the losses from reaching a 2019 high were recovered. Even under intense selling pressure from speculators looking to take quick profits from the recovery, Bitcoin price has still survived Monday’s Asian trading to level at around USD 8,000 as […]
Analysts Trace Current Bitcoin Rally to 2017 Bull Market
Bitcoin value has seen a highly significant upsurge in the past few days, with it reaching USD 7,968 at 3:00pm UTC on 19 May 2019. With an almost 150% increase in value from last December, various crypto analysts believe that this upsurge marks the start of a prolonged bullish run, with the bear cycle of […]
North America: Crypto and Blockchain News Roundup 13 May to 19th May, 2019
North America Welcome to another weekly blockchain news roundup from around the world. Here we present to you all the latest Bitcoin news continent by continent and country by country. USA Coinbase CEO proposes crypto debit card in USA: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong in a recent Live Youtube AMA channel suggested the idea of a crypto debit […]
Europe: Crypto and Blockchain News Roundup 13 May to 19th May, 2019
Europe Welcome to another weekly blockchain news roundup from around the world. Here we present to you all the latest Bitcoin news continent by continent and country by country. European Union European Central Bank believes cryptocurrencies have no impact on real economy: The European Central Bank (ECB) believes that cryptocurrencies do not have a significant […]
Brazil Professor Talks Development of Blockchain in Brazil Universities
After the recent exposure of a false diplomas scandal in Brazil involving eight states, a considerable debate has been started on the legitimacy of the system. The scandal is currently under investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Espírito Santo, and it has been revealed that over 4,000 documents were forged by the teachers to […]
Asia and Australia: Crypto and Blockchain News Roundup 13 May to 19th May, 2019
Asia and Australia Welcome to another weekly blockchain news roundup from around the world. Here we present to you all the latest Bitcoin news continent by continent and country by country. China US-China Trade war may have fueled BTC price: The Bitcoin price index may have recently benefited from the recent barbs exchanged between China and […]
