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Winklevoss Twin Confident About Bitcoin’s Trillion-Dollar Future
December 11, 2017

Cameron Winklevoss, one of the twins who reportedly became the first billionaire bitcoin investors, is predicting that the widely popular and ever-volatile cryptocurrency will move even higher. In an interview with CNBC late last week, Winklevoss said that bitcoin disrupts gold. “Gold is scarce, bitcoin...

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Euro Pacific Capital Schiff Predicts Bitcoin Will Ultimately Have No Value
December 11, 2017

Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, and a long-time market forecaster, said that when it comes to bitcoin, investors can’t see any wrong in the cryptocurrency, and predicted its value will ultimately be erased. “No matter how high it goes, they’re never going to...

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Bitcoin Price Bounces Up On Futures Trading
December 11, 2017

The CBOE Futures Exchange for bitcoin is open for the business — and bitcoin’s price is up as a result. After about two hours of trading after the 6 pm (EST) launch December 10, futures were up 10 percent, which stopped all trading for two...

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Global Regulator Warns Bitcoin Is A Dangerous Bubble
December 08, 2017

Stefan Ingves — chairman of global regulators at the Basel Committee and governor of Sweden’s Riksbank — is not boosting bitcoin. In fact, he told CNBC that he doesn’t even think it merits being called cryptocurrency. “It’s a crypto-something,” he noted. “Kind of a crypto-asset...

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Craigslist Adds ‘Cryptocurrency OK’ Payment Option
December 08, 2017

In one of its first notable developments since its inception in 1995, online classifieds marketplace Craigslist has updated its posting details form to include a new payment option. In addition to myriad other payment methods and informational items users can add to their listings, the...

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Bitcoin Futures To Be Kept On Tight Leash By CFTC
December 07, 2017

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said Wednesday (Dec. 6) that it is aiming to ensure that the integrity of the bitcoin futures contracts is preserved when CME Group and Cboe launch their futures contracts. According to a report in CNBC, Andrew Busch, chief market intelligence...

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Bitcoin Miner NiceHash Reports Hack Of “Tens Of Millions”
December 07, 2017

NiceHash — a Slovenian-based bitcoin miner — says that it has been the victim of the theft of tens of millions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin. According to NiceHash, it has stopped mining operations for the next 24 hours as it tries to piece together just...

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Bitcoin Blasts Past $12,000
December 06, 2017

Another morning, another bitcoin record. Another big rally from bitcoin put the value of the cryptocurrency above $12,000 — a record high, even in a backdrop of investors and experts wondering if bitcoin can possibly live up to these values — or if the bubble...

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UK Expands Anti-Money Laundering Rules To Cover Crypto
December 05, 2017

The U.K. is aiming to boost regulation of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by giving the European Union (EU) expanded anti-money laundering rules that would require traders to say who they are and report any activity that appears to be suspicious. According to news from Reuters, citing...