Initially only binary bets on Bitcoin will be allowed. Will more Binary Options brokerages soon follow? IG Group, the largest UK spreadbetting company, is now offering Bitcoin binary options tradiing to their clients with an expiration of 31 May -- those who go long will "win" a specified amount if Bitcoins end up higher on…
Read moreCameron and Tyler Winklevoss have poured their Facebook fortune into Bitcoins. Reports have surfaced that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, better known as the Winklevoss Twins or simply as the 'Winklevii' (thanks to Homer Simpson) have come to own a whopping 1% of all the Bitcoins on the market, worth in the neighborhood of $15 million.…
Read moreMt Gox, which handles 80% of Bitcoin trades, sees its trade engine freeze as interest in Bitcoin soars. Well this didn't take long. Just hours after we reported that Bitcoin prices were crashing after a fast and frenzied run up from $25 to over $200 in just two months, comes word that Mt Gox --…
Read moreBit4X on MetaTrader; Coinsetter raises $500K; but when will the Bitcoin hit the "mainstream" retail FX world? The online virtual currency Bitcoin went on a wild roller coaster ride the past 24 hours, rising to hit a value of $266 then falling to a low of $105, before settling (at the time of this writing)…
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