Coinbase is saying the Internal Revenue Service went too far in its demands of the popular bitcoin exchange, and it’s pushing back in court to protect the 500,000 active Coinbase users who would be affected by the summons. The investigation began last year, at which...
Amid volatility, has bitcoin broken through a psychological barrier? The cryptocurrency traded above $2,000 on a per coin basis for the first time. The pricing, reports TechCrunch, comes from data gathered across a range of exchanges, such as Kraken. The total value of all the...
It’s been a rocky week for bitcoin — and we don’t just mean in terms of price. Actually, bitcoin’s price at the time of writing was at a record high, hitting $1859.49 on mid-day Thursday — though the past seven days had seen significant value...
While bitcoin has enabled criminals to move their activities online, notably the ransom payment of choice for last weekend’s WannaCry malware incident, those well-versed in the cryptocurrency space know that bitcoin, while hard to track, is far from completely anonymous. All bitcoin transactions by design...
Bitcoin’s growing just about as fast as we can write about it — as are a number of other cryptocurrencies, for that matter. It only took just over one day for the bitcoin price to break the record it set earlier this week. On Thursday...
Bitcoin’s growing just about as fast as we can write about it — as are a number of other cryptocurrencies, for that matter. It only took just over one day for bitcoin to break the record it set earlier this week. On Thursday (May 11)...
Bitcoin price continues to surge, breaking records along the way. On Tuesday (May 9) of this week, bitcoin saw values surge above $1,700 for the first time in history. At the time of writing on Tuesday afternoon, CoinDesk pegged bitcoin was worth $1,734.01, up 5.78 percent...
Sometimes it pays to be volatile — but there’s always the nagging risk of losing it all. Bitcoin’s value keeps breaking through ceilings again and again. What looks like a record high one day is left in the dust the next. It seems blowing past...
On Monday, and for the first time ever, bitcoin was worth over $1,400. While the day’s high was $1,422.22 according to CoinDesk, trading at the time of writing was closer $1,413, up 4.88 percent for the day, up 42 percent from the start of 2017...
