June 8th, 2018Popular Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband and businessman Raj Kundra was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for eight hours Tuesday against being a witness in the act of concealing the origin of illegally obtained money related to the Rs 2,000 crore bitcoin scam in Maharashtra.
Kundra was cited at the ED office...
April 17th, 2018Prominent cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, in a deal worth more than USD 120 million, announced its significant plan to buy the United States startup that uses blockchain for its paid-email service, Earn.com.
Coinbase also appointed Indian-American, Balaji Srinivasan, co-founder and CEO, Earn.com as its first CTO, TechCrunch...
March 15th, 2018LOS ANGELES- The Playboy Enterprises Inc, popular as a Playboy magazine announced that the company added an additional service Vice Industry Token (VIT) for online payment. The service will support a number of cryptocurrencies payment across the company's online media, digital and casual gaming businesses.
Playboy.TV will be the...
February 12th, 2018In a recent interview, the World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim compared Bitcoins to a "Ponzi Scheme" that once again triggered questions on the legitimacy of the world's most popular cryptocurrency.
“In terms of using Bitcoin or some of the cryptocurrencies, we are also looking at it, but I’m told the vast majority of...
February 6th, 2018Bitcoin 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 IST 10:36 am February 6,...
February 1st, 2018Government has considered regulation of cryptocurrency in budget 2018. In order to regulate cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Finance Minister of India, Arun Jaitley said that cryptocurrency is not a legal tender and Indian government will discourage its use.
However, the government is open to the 'blockchain technology' on which these...
January 31st, 2018Hackers who stole around $530 million worth of cryptocurrency from the Coincheck exchange last week -- one of the biggest such heists ever -- are trying to move the stolen “XEM” coins, the foundation behind the digital currency said on Tuesday.
NEM Foundation, creators of the XEM cryptocurrency, have traced the stolen coins to an...
January 27th, 2018In his recent conference at the Nordic Business Forum in Stockholm, the Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak said that he has sold all his Bitcoins, that he once bought for $700.
As per the price, he must have carried out the purchase either in June, or late October-early November of the year 2017. Although, he never revealed the...
January 21st, 2018India's leading banks suspended some accounts of major Bitcoin exchanges in India. According to the sources, the reason of this move is suspicious transactions from exchanges side.
Banks who suspend bitcoin transaction accounts are State Bank of India, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Yes Bank. The accounts of...
January 2nd, 2018The 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 from Friday, according to data...
December 30th, 2017Kidnappers 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,...
December 22nd, 2017Bitcoin 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 at the...
