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On June 12, 2017, the price of bitcoin inched close to the $3,000 mark for the first time in the history of the digital currency. Following this new all-time high, the price of bitcoin tumbled to [...]

After having purchased your first bitcoin, the next step is to find ways to securely store them. This is where so-called bitcoin wallets come in. A bitcoin wallet is essentially a bank account [...]

A section of the bitcoin community plans to effect a user activated soft fork (UASF) on August 1, 2017. It is an opportunity for bitcoin to scale and meet growing demand. The fork is also a [...]

Bitcoin and Ethereum are the most used cryptocurrencies. While the two are built with the same technology, they differ in their technical and governance designs. To its developers, Ethereum is a [...]

BitcoinIRA.com, the only company offering cryptocurrency-based retirement investment portfolios, has negotiated first-of-its-kind agreements with leading retirement and cryptocurrency companies [...]

Recently a study conducted in South Korea found out that forum comments can be used to predict the variations in the price of Bitcoins to an accuracy of over 80%. The research paper is entitled [...]

In India, the government is asking ordinary citizens on how they want Bitcoin to be regulated in the country. This will, according to the government, help the country to formulate a regulatory [...]

PwC and BitSE held a signing ceremony on Monday in Hong Kong with Raymund Chao, PwC Greater China Chairman, and DJ Qian, CEO of BitSE and VeChain, to make the agreement official. A second signing [...]

BitOasis is the first digital currency wallet and exchange service in the Middle East that enables one to buy, sell and secure bitcoin. BitOasis exchange recently announced for UAE users that [...]

The White Hacker Group is an elite group of ethical hackers.  From Facebook attacks, they target political opposition groups in countries, they carry out investigations on different crimes like [...]

Bitcoin Unlimited is a full node software client for the Bitcoin network. It removes the limit, allowing the users to determine the block size by consensus.The Bitcoin scaling debate is still [...]

There has been a debate for the last two years concerning whether to support Bitcoin Unlimited or SegWit to work as Bitcoin functioning platform.About 95% of all miners have to come to terms [...]

Recently some Bitcoin core programmers suggested a move that could lead to changing Bitcoin Proof of Work algorithm. This suggestion has met a wild argument among the Bitcoin community where [...]

Bitcoin and Ethereum, the leading cryptocurrencies had a strong finish at the end of April by marking their respective all-time high prices. The start of 2017 has been staggering for Bitcoin as [...]

Deep in Rural Norway, a Bitcoin city is being created. The out of the dream city will accept anything else other than the National currency. This city will provide free schools, and social [...]

With the advent of internet and electronic systems, payments and bank transfers for fiat currencies have gone completely digital. With cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin being advocated as simple, [...]

China has been the major reason for sudden spikes in Bitcoin prices during 2016 owing to the hedging activities of Chinese investors during Yuan’s devaluation. These activities brought the [...]

What truly indicates a disruptive technology’s true potential is its ability to transform traditional industries and advance them into furthermore smooth functioning. Blockchain technology that [...]

Bitcoin, Blockchain and cryptocurrencies have opened up a new realm of possibilities by accelerating and innovating traditional prospects. Amongst many prominent fields that was impacted by the [...]

South Korea’s Bitcoin adoption has been on the rise ever since Chinese exchanges stopped withdrawals. While Japan has truly eaten into the Chinese trading volumes, South Korea has secured the [...]