Bitcoin fell down to $9,000 on Thursday, February 2nd, 2018. Many did not expect the digital currency to go below this level, but that happened in a matter of hours. What could have caused the downfall are major worries that India is now on a mission to ban cryptos and a possible price manipulation on…
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On January 23rd, South Korea's Financial Services Commission confirmed in a statement that all Bitcoin investors and traders would need to do future business dealings though real-name bank accounts in order to "reduce room for cryptocurrency transactions to be exploited for illegal activities, such as crimes, money laundering and tax evasion." Right after the news hit…
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Bitcoin has been popular in Japan for quite some time. A lot of Japanese companies are now paying salaries in Bitcoin. And now, as of January 2018, Yamada Denki, one of the biggest consumer electronics chains in Japan, announced that it is going to start accepting bitcoin payments at two of its largest stores in Tokyo.…
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A series of industries have been now disrupted by blockchain and Bitcoin. The next in line is none other but the law sector. Many law companies across the world are now accepting Bitcoin as an official payment method for various legal services. The law industry seems to be catching up with the blockchain innovations and…
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With Bitcoin's recent big plunge and its steady recovery just in the last week, investors are literally scratching their heads to how most accurately on how to most accurately predict Bitcoin's volatile price. The weirdest theories have been developed as to what really drives Bitcoin's price. Now, the most widely used search engine in the…
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Not only South Korea and China are looking for ways to ban cryptos. India has joined them in what now seems a "worldwide" effort to control the heat that the market enjoys and especially the huge market cap that cryptos saw a month ago - $750 billion. John McAfee, one of the world's most famous…
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Stripe, one of the biggest and most popular online payments processors is now dropping Bitcoin because of the network's slow confirmation time and high fees. Stripe, which handles the payments transactions of Lyft, Target, Facebook and many more will not accept the "people's currency" after April, 23rd, 2018. Stripe is known for ease and speed…
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Some experts already call these several weeks of January, 2018 "red"ones, as alt coins are plunging with lightning speed. Bitcoin is currently down with 9%, trading just under $11,000. Despite the "blood" on the market and pain of investors, the CEO of Shopin, Eran Eyal said that he "has no doubt" that Bitcoin's price will…
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After Bitcoin's value was slashed in half, dropping from almost $20,000 to $10,000 in just two weeks, many investors started to pull their money out of accounts and wonder how to proceed next. The news that South Korea is banning cryptocurrency trading and investors's accounts has undeniably helped the value of the whole crypto market…
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Vontobel is the first issuer to offer an open end tracker certificate on bitcoin cryptocurrency on Swedish NGM Exchange. The tracker certificate enables investors to participate in the bitcoin price performance without buying and storing bitcoins digitally. In addition, the tracker makes bitcoin to a securitized financial instrument which can be traded simply and transparently…
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