The state of New York just got another bitcoin company that can legally operate under the auspices of the state financial regulator’s guidelines. New York’s state financial regulators gave Ripple Labs the approval it needed to secure its bitcoin license — BitLicense. With this license, Ripple...
Compared to 2015, bitcoin has had a stellar 2016. But when it comes to bitcoin’s price, it’s all relative. So before the bitcoin community gets out the party hats to celebrate the $600 mark that bitcoin is inching toward, it’s worth taking a look at...
Last week was short on work days due to the Monday holiday, but what the work week lacked in hours it made up for in action. The Visa acquisition of Visa Europe was approved by regulators, Amazon set Alexa free on browsers, Lending Club flipped the script and went looking for a loan...
Is bitcoin making a comeback? Oh, if we had a bitcoin for every time we’ve heard that question. Actually, that would be pretty difficult to calculate how much we’d actually have in real dollars since its price trend is so volatile. Every time bitcoin shoots above...
It appears, once again, that the Dark Web and bitcoin aren’t untraceable. Just in case there was any doubt. A new court case has shown this after it was revealed in documents that two men allegedly stole 5,400 bitcoin from an underground illegal online drug...
Is bitcoin making a price comeback? Well, a recent surge from Chinese investors has managed to bump bitcoin’s price over the $500 mark. Although that’s a far cry from where bitcoin was at its all-time-high price, bitcoin has seen a strong spike in the past...
In a buying spree that began on Friday (May 27) and carried on through the four days since, Chinese investors managed to push the price of bitcoin up by 16 percent. As of the time this story was written, the price of an individual bitcoin was...
The Mt. Gox bitcoin drama got a little more dramatic this week. As a quick refresher, Mt. Gox is the now-defunct bitcoin exchange that shuttered in February 2014 after a mysterious “glitch” caused $500 million worth of bitcoin to go missing. Those bitcoin – or at least most of...
Good intentions gone bad? “Robin Hood Hacker Donates $11,000 of Stolen Bitcoin to Help Fight ISIS.” This is a real story and that was an actual headline. Those bitcoins were reportedly given by a person described as a “vigilante hacker,” who then gave that bitcoin...
