Tag: bitcoin

Bitcoin has displayed some bullish signs today, pushing higher following its recent retracement. The world’s largest digital currency by market value reached $7,868.49 around 1:00 p.m. EDT, up roughly 5.2% from its intra-day low of $7,478.10, CoinDesk price data reveals. The cryptocurrency dropped below $7,500...

Facebook, the social networking giant which owns the popular WhatsApp messaging app and image-based Instagram, is gearing up to launch a rival to bitcoin as soon as next year as it accelerates plans to diversify its revenue away from advertising. The...

Bitcoin, now hovering around $7,500 after a sterling few months that’s seen the bitcoin price boom, has been trading sideways over the last couple of week, as the market processes what’s become the new normal. The bitcoin price has almost...

We previously reported on Craig Wright’s legal actions against Peter McCormack, host of the What Bitcoin Did podcast. Wright claims McCormack engaged in libel by calling him a “fraud” for claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto. McCormack has received his second notice...

Huobi Global ushered in the ninth anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day with a bit of history of its own this year; the Huobi Prime launch of Reserve’s RSR token and a special sale of Bitcoin at up to 50% off...

Hopes of a bitcoin ETF were once again dampened by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Most recently, SEC postponed its decision on the VanEck/SolidX bitcoin (BTC) ETF proposal (read: Will 2019 See a Bitcoin ETF?). Per coindesk.com, “the...

CNBC Bitcoin analyst Brian Kelly thinks that institutional adoption of Bitcoin is finally here as retail anticipation continues to ramp up for the $140 billion market cap digital asset. He also noted that the planned daily supply cut (often referred to as...

Tether, a stablecoin tied to the dollar that is meant to mediate the volatility of other cryptocurrencies, is partly backed by bitcoin. As detailed in court documents obtained by The Block, Tether admitted to using some of the cash reserves meant to...

The Dutch Financial Criminal Investigative Service has seized the website of a bitcoin transaction mixer in a crackdown involving Europol and other authorities. Calling it the the “first law enforcement action of its kind against such a cryptocurrency mixer service,”...

An Israeli court has ruled that bitcoin is an asset and not a currency, and thus subject to capital gains tax (CGT). The Central District Court made the ruling in a case involving a blockchain startup founder and the Israel...