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Hackers Attack Sacramento Transit System for 1 BTC Ransom

A hacker has attacked and crippled the Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) system for a ransom of 1 Bitcoin, or about $8,000 at today’s market value. The attack...

VC Expert Gurley: Bitcoin is Incredible Store of Value

Venture Capitalist expert and investor Bill Gurley believes Bitcoin is an incredible store of value. In an interview with CNBC, the financier made it clear he b...

A Tale of Two Bitcoins: Where Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash are Headed

This is a tale of two Bitcoins. After a fork in August that created Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), we have reached yet another crossroad. While another h...

NiceHash CEO Quits After 4,000 BTC Hack, Service To Continue Work

Slovenian mining service NiceHash has swapped CEOs several weeks after hackers stole Bitcoins worth around $63 mln in 2017’s last major attack. After the embatt...

Bitcoin ETFs Seek Approval Following Launch of Futures

Two companies have recently applied to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for approval of their new Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). According...

Traditional Banks Hate Crypto: Expert Blog

Digital currency’s total market capitalization is around $500 bln and the total funds raised through ICOs now exceeds $3 bln. However, the Bubble Generation isn...

$1, $1,000, $1 mln; Bitcoin’s Price Doesn’t Matter, its Existence Does

There’s little doubting that Bitcoin would not be where it is today - as an entity and in terms of its price - if it wasn’t for its pattern of monumental growth...

Cameron Winklevoss Predicts That Bitcoin Will Reach Multi-Trillion Value

Cameron of the famous Winklevoss twins has claimed that the phenomenal rise in the price of leading cryptocurrency Bitcoin is primed to increase further in the ...

Gold Dealer APMEX Now Accepting Bitcoin, Cites Customer Desire for Anonymity

It’s now possible to buy real gold with digital gold, should customers desire, according to an announcement from APMEX. According to the post, the company has i...

NY Assemblyman Files Four Blockchain Technology Bills

New York Assemblyman Clyde Vanel (D-33) has filed four proposed laws that aim to promote research on the concrete possible applications of Blockchain technology...

Blockchain-Based Platform Cuts out Middleman in Collectible Card Games

For those who are already in the milieu of digital card gaming and trading, the fact that it is a high-potential multi-billion dollar industry is not news. This...

Bitcoin Market Capitalization Crosses $300 Bln on Anticipation of Futures Trading

It seems almost too much to imagine, but the market cap for Bitcoin alone has now reached over $300 bln. The combined market cap for all cryptocurrencies is qui...

Another Day, Another Thousand Dollars: Bitcoin Hits $15k

Its amazing !! Bitcoin has advanced $1,000 higher in what is becoming an almost daily occurrence for the virtual currency. Data from Coinmarketcap shows an aver...

$13,200: Bitcoin Price Defies All Expectations… Again

The Bitcoin price is continuing on its unparalleled trajectory higher as Wednesday’s new all-time highs reach $13,200. According to average exchange data from C...

Max Keiser: Saudi Arabia’s Bin Talal is Bitcoin ‘Poster Boy’

Max Keiser has publicly called arrested Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal a “poster boy for why you should buy Bitcoin.” In an episode of the Keiser Report on Rus...

$16 Bln Payments App Square Integrates Bitcoin, What’s Next?

Earlier this week, $16 bln payments app Square officially integrated Bitcoin into its mobile platform, enabling three mln active users to buy, sell and store Bi...

Blow Bitcoin, Don’t Destabilize Government: AD Newspaper

Sandra Phlippen of AD Newspaper, owned by a Belgian private news company, in the Netherlands is imploring citizens to spend all their Bitcoin now in order to av...

Coinsource Installs 20 New Bitcoin ATMs in Georgia

Texas-based Bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM) network Coinsource has installed 20 new Bitcoin ATM machines in the US state of Georgia as of early December ...

It’s Not Really About Bitcoin Price Surging, It’s Fiat Currencies In Free Fall

According to Stefan Molyneux, a highly regarded Canadian podcast host, it is more important to recognize the free fall of fiat currencies, more so than to ackno...

Monero Loses Darknet Market in Apparent Exit Scam

Monero appears to have lost its darknet market integrations, and very well may have fallen victim to an exit scam. Darknet market Oasis, the first to accept Mon...