Another week, another low. Bitcoin’s market has been bleeding relentlessly for weeks and now, after falling 50% in value in just one month, the market has managed to break south of a major bearish consolidation pattern called a bear pennant:...

Bitcoin is down more than 80% from its all-time high, having plummetted since the beginning of this year, dragging most major cryptocurrencies with it, including the likes of ethereum and Ripple’s XRP. This time last year bitcoin was fast approaching its all-time...

Nearly 170 years before the invention of Bitcoin, the journalist Charles Mackay noted the way whole communities could “fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit”. Millions of people, he wrote, “become simultaneously impressed with one...

Since December 8, the Bitcoin price has increased from $3,210 to $3,588, by just about 12 percent against the U.S. dollar. In the same time frame, the cryptocurrency market added $11 billion to its valuation, avoiding a further drop below the $100...

Tokyo prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a 10-year jail term for the former head of collapsed bitcoin exchange MtGox, local media reported. French national Mark Karpeles, 33, faces charges that he fraudulently manipulated data and pocketed millions of dollars’ worth of...

Crypto enthusiasts cheered in June when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission removed what traders believed was a major hurdle to Ether joining Bitcoin in the futures markets. Another regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, dampened some of that optimism...

The Bitcoin price grabbed the headlines this week, once again plunging to a new yearly low and placing the crypto market on the brink of sinking below the $100 billion level for the first time in 2018. However, there was...

AFTER an unnerving period of volatility in which bitcoin was tossed about like a rudderless ship in tempestuous seas, it appears a course has been successfully navigated into calmer waters. Bitcoin news: BTC is not in safe waters at all,...

Former IMF Chief Economist and current Harvard University Professor of Economics and Public Policy Kenneth Rogoff believes that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies currently amount to little more than “lottery tickets” at this moment in time. Writing in the Guardian on...

The impetus for my inquiry was a controversial discussion at the massive Consensus conference in New York earlier that month, in which Erik Voorhees, the CEO of Shapeshift, a cryptocurrency exchange, had attacked the onerousness of New York’s crypto regulationsand called...