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.

Facebook Earnings Sizzle While Platform Usage Fizzles

Facebook Earnings Sizzle While Platform Usage Fizzles
Facebook Earnings Sizzle While Platform Usage Fizzles
February 02, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

What sizzles and fizzles at the same time? Dry ice, perhaps? If so, then Facebook was the dry ice of corporations this week, reporting a...

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Bitcoin Daily: Ripple’s Bitcoin And XRP Crash, Cybercriminals Love Their Crypto
Bitcoin Daily: Ripple’s Bitcoin And XRP Crash, Cybercriminals Love Their Crypto
February 02, 2018  |  Bitcoin

With the growth of cryptocurrency, criminals are beginning to commit crypto crimes. Cybercriminals have come up with several techniques to steal digital coins, from “cryptojacking”...

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Bitcoin Dips Below $9,000 Mark
Bitcoin Dips Below $9,000 Mark
February 01, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Following comments from India’s minister of finance on cryptocurrency and potential price manipulation at a major cryptocurrency exchange, bitcoin dropped below $9,000 in trading on Thursday...

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Bitcoin Daily: Square Gets Cash App Into Bitcoin, Coincheck’s Security Mistake
Bitcoin Daily: Square Gets Cash App Into Bitcoin, Coincheck’s Security Mistake
February 01, 2018  |  Bitcoin

People across the world could be mining a cryptocurrency – and not even know it, Forbes reported. Hackers are breaking into computers and smartphones and...

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Bitcoin Approaches Worst Month Since 2015
Bitcoin Approaches Worst Month Since 2015
January 31, 2018  |  Bitcoin

As regulators in the U.S. and South Korea clamp down on cryptocurrencies, and investors question the stability of digital coins, bitcoin may see its worst...

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South Korea Says It Will Not Ban Crypto-Trading
South Korea Says It Will Not Ban Crypto-Trading
January 31, 2018  |  Bitcoin

In one of the bigger back-and-forth stories in digital currency, South Korea has announced that it is definitely for real this time sure that it...

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Bitcoin Daily: Facebook Bans Crypto Ads, SEC Halts ‘Illegal’ ICO
Bitcoin Daily: Facebook Bans Crypto Ads, SEC Halts ‘Illegal’ ICO
January 31, 2018  |  Bitcoin

While interest in digital coins may be surging, Facebook is not interested in running cryptocurrency ads, according to Recode. The social networking site will ban...

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Starbucks’ Howard Schultz Skeptical On Bitcoin, Hopeful For Blockchain
Starbucks’ Howard Schultz Skeptical On Bitcoin, Hopeful For Blockchain
January 30, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Bitcoin has yet another naysayer. This time, it’s Starbucks’ executive chairman and former CEO, Howard Schultz, who doesn’t believe the cryptocurrency is “legitimate.” Get the...

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Today In Data: Crypto Thresholds, eCommerce Boosts And SMB Loan Origination Declines
Today In Data: Crypto Thresholds, eCommerce Boosts And SMB Loan Origination Declines
January 29, 2018  |  Today In Data

Today in PYMNTS’ data, bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have a psychological barrier threshold, online merchants are scored on ease of online checkout factors, manual investigation...

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