Cryptocurrency News

  “It’s not a surprise to me that inevitably corporations are going after creating their own tokens but for Facebook to be one of the first big ones is is pretty much a surprise,” said Lukka CEO Jake Benson told us when news of Libra began to spread. The world shared …

Bitcoin (BTC) is down 11.7 percent The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto should remain anonymous John McAfee, the vocal Bitcoin permabull, claims to know the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. However, in a recent interview, “Bitcoin”, hopes Satoshi Nakamoto remains anonymous. Presently, BTC is down 11.7 percent from …

A big move was expected for bitcoin price and it came yesterday with a swift plunge back into four figures. The move resulted in a $15 billion dump from crypto market capitalization as altcoins blindly bled out in the shadow of their big brother. Bitcoin Does Another ‘Bart’ These ‘Bart-type’ …

Matthew Trudeau is chief strategy officer at crypto asset exchange ErisX. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a free newsletter for institutional investors interested in crypto assets. Sign up here. Recently CoinDesk published an article titled, ‘High Frequency Trading is …

Bitcoin (BTC) has been incurring significant selling pressure as of late that has caused significant damage to its technical strength. This selling pressure is coming in spite of some bullish fundamental developments that have occurred as of late, including the state-sponsored Bank of China offering what can be defined as …

On Thursday, July 25th, the corpse of Tobiasz Niemiro, one of the owners of the crypto-exchange Bitmarket, was found with a bullet in his head. Whether this is murder or suicide is still unclear. Poland’s formerly second-largest crypto-purse abruptly ceased operations on 8 July, with the stock market citing “liquidity …

The Takeaway: The charity arm of Binance was reportedly financed late last year by donations of at least $13 million. However, less than half of the donations made to the Binance Charity Foundation (BCF) are accounted for on BCF’s website, which shows under $6 million worth of crypto. BCF is …

Let’s face it, there aren’t many instances where you can imagine a story entailing Bitcoin, porn, and Panera Bread, but that’s exactly the case with an 86-year-old Chicago woman. The tech-savvy elderly woman was able to connect the dots as to how a Bitcoin extortionist was able to find her …

Another week, another seven days of volatility. However, unlike last week’s completely red market summary, this week was a mixed bag.  The Losers:  The Winners:  A message from our sponsors: This Week in Crypto is brought to you by 3Commas, one of the largest cryptocurrency trading bot and trading automation …

The lightning network, seen as the future of bitcoin payments, is now a bit easier to monitor. This Wednesday, Lightning Labs released a new network analysis tool dubbed “Lndmon” that bitcoin lightning network users can use to pull up data about the state of their node and the rest of …