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OTC Exchanges Help Thwart $5M Bank Heist in Brazil
10.5.2020
A $5 million hack that has baffled investigators in Brazil was thwarted with assistance from local OTC trading desks
15% Correction Drops Bitcoin Price to $8,100 Days Before BTC Halving
10.5.2020
Bitcoin price drops by 15.30% just 2 days before the block reward halving
Bitcoin Mining Markets Heat Up: Ebang’s $41M Deficit, Bitmain’s Alleged 2020 Revenue
10.5.2020
The Chinese ASIC mining rig manufacturer Bitmain reportedly pulled in $300 million in revenue during Q1 2020. Meanwhile, as Bitmain claims to be regaining market share, the firm Ebang recently applied with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for initial public offering (IPO) status....
The Halving Looms, Wright Plagiarizes, & Miners Face Serious Difficulties: Bad Crypto News of the Week
9.5.2020
Check out this week’s Bad Crypto News
Chinese Court Rules Bitcoin Is Asset Protected by Law
9.5.2020
A court in Shanghai, China, has reportedly ruled that bitcoin is an asset protected by Chinese law in a case that has dragged on for years. The case involves a theft of two different cryptocurrencies, one being bitcoin, from an American. The defendants argued that bitcoin was not recognized under...
Cryptocurrency News From Japan: May 3 - May 9 in Review
9.5.2020
Multiple exchanges posted positive fiscal year end numbers, a self-regulatory agency listed crypto asset market price references, and more headlined news from Japan this past week
Bitcoin Halving Means Miners Will No Longer Be Biggest Sellers of BTC
9.5.2020
Bitcoin halving will reduce the BTC inflation rate below 2% and miners will no longer be the biggest sellers
Devon Brewer: Rediscovering the Golden Rule
9.5.2020
The Golden Rule may be the most basic moral approach to dealing with others. It seems universal across cultures and religions. The Golden Rule is instinctive. We all know it, even as children without education. I like the negative form of the Golden Rule the best. One of the earliest written...
Here’s Why Altcoins Bouncing as Bitcoin Retraced From $10K Is Bullish
9.5.2020
Tezos, Chainlink and Ethereum are just some of the altcoins playing catch up while Bitcoin price takes a breather from $10,000
Bitcoin Gains Ground on Gold, Bolsters Claim as the Asset of Tomorrow
9.5.2020
“In the world of decentralized finance, stablecoins are a real threat to mutual funds and ETFs. And ETFs backed by gold might be disrupted by stablecoins that are backed by gold,” said one expert
Award-Winning Filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann Launches Bitcoin Documentary Cryptopia
9.5.2020
This week filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann launched the cryptocurrency-infused documentary “Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet.” Cryptopia discusses the powerful economy and flourishing ideas that stemmed from Satoshi’s invention through the eyes of some...
The CoinDesk 50: Bitmain, the Behemoth of Bitcoin Mining
9.5.2020
Bitmain remains at the center of the crypto economy. But, in China, "mining avengers" are racing to catch up
Bitcoin Is Outperforming Every Mainstream Asset Class in 2020
9.5.2020
With less than three days left until the halving, Bitcoin is currently outperforming every mainstream asset class for 2020 so far
The Market Perceives Positive Sentiment Heading Into the 2020 Bitcoin Halving
9.5.2020
Looking at the perpetual funding rate, put–call ratio and Spend Output Profit Ratio to gauge the current market view leading up to crypto’s most-anticipated event
Michelle Phan: The Beauty of Bitcoin
9.5.2020
Why beauty mogul Michelle Phan says her 8.9 million YouTube subscribers are ready for bitcoin: "They want to know how to protect their purchasing power."
Miners in Europe Gear Up for Bitcoin Halving, but Energy Costs Still a Barrier
9.5.2020
As the halving approaches, miners in Europe face a serious challenge: Can they survive the event, and will the industry thrive post-halving?
Rain, Government, and BTC Bulls to Help Chinese Miners After Bitcoin Halving
9.5.2020
The third Bitcoin (BTC) halving will change the mining industry. With mining reward effectively being cut by 50%, many miners and mining companies will be forced offline.
Only the most efficient and economically viable will survive. The question is: will the surviving miners be mostly concentrated...
Bitcoin (BTC) Aces the Comeback After the March Crash in Comparison to Gold
9.5.2020
Bitcoin price corrects downwards after swinging and hitting a 10-week long resistance slightly above $10k with only 2 days to halving remaining. However, this time the trend before halving seems to be quite different, unlike the one seen in 2012 and 2016. And, this time, analysts and influencers...
Bitcoin Outlives First Website That Declared it Dead Back in 2010
9.5.2020
Bitcoin is still going strong as it heads towards its third halving event… unlike the first website to declare it dead, which is sadly no longer with us
Halving bitcoinu se blíží. Těžařům klesnou odměny, ale investoři jsou ve střehu
9.5.2020
Bitcoin právě zažívá velmi důležitý milník. Již v noci z 11. na 12. května totiž dojde k jeho historicky 3. halvingu, tedy okamžiku, kdy se odměna za vytěžený blok sníží na polovinu proti předchozí hodnotě. Tato situace se u bitcoinu opakuje vždy po 210 000 vytěžených blocích, tedy přibližně každé