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Are The Days of Bitcoin Over? Becomes One-Third In Less Than 2 Months

Bitcoin has been tumbling since the past few, and it’s been over 1.5 months that it last it’s all time high. Bitcoin hit an all time high $19,343 in December 16, 2017 after which it fell and topped at $17,135 on January 6, 2018. Ever since then its has been falling and hit $6,083 by […]

Budget 2018 : 10 Important Announcements For Middle-Class Families

The Finance Minister of India, Arun Jaitley, has announced the budget for 2018-19 today. Starting off with providing the details on how the previous year’s budget turned out, he mentioned how India stands out as the fastest economy in the world and now is a 2.5 trillion-dollar economy. On the basis of purchasing power, India […]

Not So Happy New Year For Bitcoin

The year 2018 seems “not” to be cryptocurrency friendly! Ever since the year 2015, it started the year by declining from its value, sliding from an all time high of $19,511, which it reached on December 18. The virtual coin fell to $13,624.56 as of 5 p.m. in New York on Monday, down 4.8 percent […]

Ukraine Kidnappers Free Bitcoin Analyst After $1M Ransom Paid

Kidnappers in Ukraine have released an employee at a United Kingdom-registered cryptocurrency exchange after getting more than $1 million in bitcoins as ransom, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister told Reuters on Friday. Pavel Lerner, a leading analyst and blockchain expert, was abducted by unknown masked people on Dec. 26, according to a statement […]

Bitcoin Further Falls Below $13,000 Investors Sweat

Bitcoin dipped further 21 percent on Friday, adding up to its loss towards 40 percent, the investors look worried. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency dropped to $12,191.80 before trading at $12,975.50 as of 3:47 p.m. in Hong Kong. The Bitcoin has been tumbling from its peak of $19,511, but still 1100% of what it started […]

Founder Out Of Litecoins, Sells All After 7500% Rally

The world’s fifth biggest cryptocurrency Litecoin founder Charlie Lee is all cashed in during a 75-fold rally this year. Founded back in 2011 in San-Francisco by a software engineer “sold and donated” all of his holdings over a past few days, he said in a Reddit blog post. The move was under the influence of […]

Bitcoin Extends Losses, Slips Below $14,000 On Bitstamp Exchange

Bitcoin fell more than 10 percent to below $14,000 on the Bitstamp exchange on Friday, extending overnight losses. It was last down 11 percent at $13,872. The cryptocurrency, which was at about $1,000 at the year’s start, had climbed to a record high of $19,666 on Sunday in lead up to exchange giant CME Group’s […]

This Japanese Company Is Paying Its Employees In Bitcoins

Japanese web giant GMO Internet Group recently revealed that it will soon start paying its employees, a part of their salary through Bitcoin, Bitcoin and digital cryptocurrency website Coindesk reported. As per the release, GMO will be rolling out this system from February 2018 within GMO Internet Co. Ltd. expansion across the entire group and […]

These 5 Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoin Are Attracting Investors

Starting from $1000 this year, Bitcoin has ramped up to around $20,000. With the launch of Bitcoin futures this week by Chicago-based derivatives exchange Cboe Global Markets, the prices are still expected to shoot up. The Bitcoin “bubble” has ignited a series of discussions on the Wall Street, questioning whether the Bitcoin is the new […]

Bitcoin Fever Exposes Crypto-Market Frailties

As bitcoin raced to another record high on Tuesday, one of the biggest providers of digital currency wallets, Coinbase, went down under the weight of traffic, leaving many of its more than 10 million customers unable to access their funds. At the same time, Bitfinex, the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange by trading volume, said it […]

Hackers Steal $79 Million In Bitcoin From Crypto Marketplace NiceHash

Another Bitcoin security breach costed $79 million to a cryptocurrency exchange site NiceHash. NiceHash posted the theft on Facebook: In the breach, $79 million worth of bitcoin was stolen by hackers from NiceHash’s servers, in a scenario where Bitcoin reaches to almost $16,800. “In addition to undertaking our own investigation, the incident has been reported […]