Tag: cryptocurrency

Retail investors are lining up for the latest twist in the never-ending crypto craze. BlockFi, a fintech startup backed by billionaire Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Capital, began providing interest-bearing accounts this month that offer up to 6.2 percent in annualized returns...

For people who are new to the world of finance and trading, things can be somewhat complicated, having never been taught the basics of how money works and how to take advantage of this fiscal chimera. More recently, this area...

Yuval Rooz was promoted to chief executive officer of blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings after Wall Street veteran Blythe Masters resigned the post in December. Rooz, one of the venture’s co-founders, has been finance chief and more recently was chief...

Digital Asset, a New York-based blockchain firm backed by some of the biggest banks in the world, has hired a new chief executive to replace Blythe Masters, the former JPMorgan executive who quit in 2018. Yuval Rooz will replace Masters...

Cryptocurrency markets are showing the first signs of recovery after months of stagnation, with the price of bitcoin breaking above $4,000 (£3,000) on Monday. Bitcoin has been trading between $3,000 and $4,000 since November 2018, having fallen from a peak of around $20,000 in late...

Bitcoin broke above $4,000 for the first time since early January, a milestone seen as significant by at least one well-known crypto bull after weeks of sideways trading. “Round numbers are important,” said Tom Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors....

In a world driven by instant gratification, short cuts and quick fixes it’s easy to see how the investment potential of crypto currencies attracted a massive new wave of Initial Coin Offering (ICO) investors. Fueled by media hype and viral...

Credit card companies charge an average of 5 percent per transaction, which gets passed on to the passenger. But TaxiCash would enable instantaneous peer-to-peer payments between the driver and the customer to cut out the middle man – saving them...

Several altcoins notched notable gains this week, providing a stark contrast to the relative stagnation of bitcoin prices. Cardano and stellar, some of the better-known alternative protocol assets, rose 17.1% and 23% during the seven-day period through roughly 09:00 UTC today, CoinMarketCapdata shows....

Bitcoin, which has struggled to hold on to previous attempts to gain a footing above $4,000, has today rallied to a little over the psychological barrier, gaining almost 4% over the last 24 trading period. The bitcoin price rise comes as...