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.

Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Alternatives Drive Trillion-Dollar Predictions

Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Alternatives Drive Trillion-Dollar Predictions
Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Alternatives Drive Trillion-Dollar Predictions
January 04, 2018  |  Bitcoin

A number of bitcoin rivals, such as Stellar, on their way to making a dent in the cryptocurrency’s dominance. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Merrill Lynch Bans Bitcoin For Its Client Advisors
Merrill Lynch Bans Bitcoin For Its Client Advisors
January 04, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Financial advisors at Merrill Lynch have been formally banned from pushing bitcoin-related investments for their clients, according to reports. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Russia And Venezuela Hope To Use Digital Currency To Defang Sanctions
Russia And Venezuela Hope To Use Digital Currency To Defang Sanctions
January 04, 2018  |  Blockchain / Distributed Ledger

Where there is a will — and some digital currency — it seems there is a way. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Peter Thiel And The Founders Fund Put Big Bucks Into Bitcoin
Peter Thiel And The Founders Fund Put Big Bucks Into Bitcoin
January 03, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Peter Thiel appears to be betting big on bitcoin: Founders Fund, the venture capital firm he co-founded, has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars of...

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Forget Bitcoin — Privacy Tokens A Favorite Of The Bad Guys
Forget Bitcoin — Privacy Tokens A Favorite Of The Bad Guys
January 03, 2018  |  Blockchain / Distributed Ledger

Bitcoin may be garnering a lot of interest from all sorts of investors, but it’s losing its luster for criminals, as they move on to...

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Bitcoin Down In First Day Of New Year Trading
Bitcoin Down In First Day Of New Year Trading
January 03, 2018  |  Bitcoin

The decline in the value of bitcoin carried into 2018, with the cryptocurrency down in trading on Tuesday (Jan. 2), marking the first time the...

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Short Bitcoin Contracts Increase
Short Bitcoin Contracts Increase
January 03, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Net short bitcoin contracts surged in the week of trading kicking off on Dec. 26, as investors bet the bitcoin futures traded on the Cboe...

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Kidnappers Get $1M In Bitcoin For Release Of Crypto Exec
Kidnappers Get $1M In Bitcoin For Release Of Crypto Exec
January 02, 2018  |  Bitcoin

A cryptocurrency executive who was kidnapped by an armed gang near his office in Kiev earlier this week was freed on Thursday after paying the...

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Analyst Warns Cryptocurrencies Could Cast Shadow On 2018 Economy
Analyst Warns Cryptocurrencies Could Cast Shadow On 2018 Economy
January 02, 2018  |  Bitcoin

A Goldman Sachs economist has joined the list of those concerned with the impact that cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, could have on the U.S. economy....

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