Bitcoin is shaking off sellers of January 30, price action on late February 1 shows. The FED Raises Interest Rates The spark in BTC demand is because of Federal Reserve (FED) Chair Jerome Powell’s comments…
XRP Price and Volume Linked to Twitter Activity,…
XRP gains from the month of February were erased over the past two weeks as the altcoin returned to its late January price at $0.23 today. The majority of the losses appear to be caused…
BIS Paper Reckons With P2P Payments, Tokenized Securities,…
Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) are grappling with the future of payments – so much so that their newest quarterly report, released Sunday, is entirely dedicated to what that potential revolution holds.…
Cryptocurrency Could Kill Bank Lending, Warns Bank of…
In the cryptocurrency economy, the supply of credit through the banking system could disappear, warned Bank of England Deputy Governor Sir Jon Cunliffe. That would be a change with “profound economic consequences,” he added, emphasizing…
Top 5 Cryptos This Week (March 1): LEO,…
The last week of February saw a blood bath across various asset classes on fears that the coronavirus outbreak is turning into a pandemic. This led investors to dump their positions in the equity markets,…
Market Update: Coronavirus Fears, Stock Market Crash, and…
Digital currency markets have been consolidating since the initial price drop on February 26 that saw $25 billion shaved off the entire cryptocurrency market. At the time of publication, the cryptoconomy is hovering just above…
Kraken Donates 17.5 Bitcoin to Collaborative Hackerspace Noisebridge
On Feb. 27 Noisebridge advocate and attendee John Backus woke up to see that approximately 17.513 Bitcoin (BTC) – equivalent to about $156,000 at the time – had been deposited into Noisebridge’s cryptocurrency wallet. The…
MTV Airs Only the Negative Parts of Crypto…
A new television series by MTV features arguably the channel’s first crypto personality. Rachel Siegel, a bitcoin advocate and proponent of mass adoption who’s behind the Youtube channel Crypto Finally, was invited to enrich the…
A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: 18 of…
Analyzing and exploring the Bitcoin blockchain is always interesting, but for the more abstract thinker, several sites provide unique looks at the network, nodes, and transaction data in easy to grok, visual fashion. Some of…