Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.

VCs Back Bitcoin For B2B Payments, AI For Enterprise Analytics
VCs Back Bitcoin For B2B Payments, AI For Enterprise Analytics
December 08, 2017  |  B2B Payments

In total, B2B venture capitalists placed (or announced plans to place) $85 million in funding to businesses, with startups in the U.S., Asia and the...

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Indonesia Central Bank Bans FinTechs From Using Cryptocurrency
Indonesia Central Bank Bans FinTechs From Using Cryptocurrency
December 08, 2017  |  Bitcoin

As part of a new set of rules for FinTech companies, Indonesia’s central bank is preventing them from using cryptocurrency. According to a Thursday (Dec....

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CoinFi Aims To Smooth Crypto Swings With New Tools
CoinFi Aims To Smooth Crypto Swings With New Tools
December 08, 2017  |  News

If it’s Friday, it must be the end of a wild week in the Wild West, where winded traders’ wondrous winnings are tallied and taken,...

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

Stefan Ingves — chairman of global regulators at the Basel Committee and governor of Sweden’s Riksbank — is not boosting bitcoin. In fact, he told...

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

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...

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Amid The Good (Stock Market) Cheer, Clouds Gather?
Amid The Good (Stock Market) Cheer, Clouds Gather?
December 07, 2017  |  Investments

Nine years is a long time for anything to run — a TV show, your car, a bowling league — especially so the bull market that...

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Steam Just Says No To Bitcoin
Steam Just Says No To Bitcoin
December 07, 2017  |  Retail

Bitcoin (as of the time this article was written) was valued at more than $16,000 per unit, so perhaps there is no value going out...

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

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...

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

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....

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