11:13 p.m. ET Share The 3 biggest challengers to bitcoin’s crown MarketWatch photo illustration/Everett Collection Bitcoin is trying to hold off challengers to start 2018. By Mark DeCambre As the broader digital-currency market garners wider attention, the most popular of the cohort, bitcoin, is facing its fiercest challenge for cryptocurrency supremacy in its brief history.…
Month: January 2018
Coincheck: World’s biggest ever digital currency ‘theft’
Image copyright Nippon Hoso Kyokai Image caption Coincheck representatives looked numb when they faced journalists One of Japan’s largest digital currency exchanges says it has lost some $534m (£380m) worth of virtual assets in a hacking attack on its network. Coincheck froze deposits and withdrawals for all crypto-currencies except Bitcoin as it assessed its losses…
Massive Cryptocurrency Heist Puts Spotlight on Exchange Security – Bloomberg
At 2:57 a.m. on Friday morning in Tokyo, someone hacked into the digital wallet of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc. and pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. Three days later, the theft of nearly $500 million in digital tokens is still reverberating through virtual currency markets and policy circles around the world.…
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Price Reaches $1,614.43
Tweet Bitcoin Cash (CURRENCY:BCH) traded 1.9% lower against the dollar during the 1 day period ending at 19:00 PM ET on January 26th. Over the last seven days, Bitcoin Cash has traded down 10.2% against the dollar. One Bitcoin Cash coin can currently be bought for $1,614.43 or 0.14434400 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges including Huobi,…
Bitcoin (BTC) Reaches Market Capitalization of $188.42 Billion
Bitcoin (BTC) Reaches Market Capitalization of $188.42 Billion Posted by Caroline Horne | Jan 26th, 2018 Bitcoin (CURRENCY:BTC) traded down 1.1% against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 19:00 PM ET on January 26th. One Bitcoin coin can currently be purchased for $11,196.50 on popular cryptocurrency exchanges including Livecoin, Coinnest, CoinEgg and…
While Blockchain Exploded in 2017, Has it Grown Up? | Zero Hedge
0 SHARES Submitted by Tom Luongo, Editor of Stocks, Shocks & Rocks at Seeking Alpha; Publisher of the Gold, Goats n’ Guns Newsletter 2017 will likely be remembered as the Year of the Blockchain. There’s no doubt in my mind that blockchain technology is here to stay and will alter the way we organize and…
Top cryptocurrencies in December 2017
Top cryptocurrencies in December 2017 2 stycznia 2018 0 komentarzy The last month of the year is behind us – we greeted with great pleasure the year 2018. Yearly rank of cryptocurrencies will be available tomorrow, so we invite you to visit us. Meanwhile, we present the December summary along with expert comments. Which coin…
‘TRUE BLOODBATH’: Timebomb that may bring down Bitcoin
Image WTF is Bitcoin? 1:18 Bitcoin is an online currency created from computer code, but how does it work and why do people use it? November 30th 2017 2 months ago /display/newscorpaustralia.com/Web/NewsNetwork/Technology – syndicated/ A person looks at a mobile phone displaying virtual currencies exchange rates at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris on 17…
ClearPoll (POLL) One Day Volume Hits $317,981.00
Tweet ClearPoll (CURRENCY:POLL) traded up 4.2% against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 14:00 PM Eastern on January 26th. One ClearPoll token can now be purchased for $2.97 or 0.00026793 BTC on popular exchanges including Kucoin, HitBTC, EtherDelta and Cryptopia. In the last seven days, ClearPoll has traded down 12.6% against the…
Coincheck: World’s biggest ever digital currency ‘theft’ – BBC News
Bitcoin boom boosts graphics card prices What do we know about the hack? Hackers broke in at 02:57 on Friday (17:57 GMT Thursday), the company said in a statement , but the breach was not discovered until 11:25, nearly eight and a half hours later. Company chief operating officer Yusuke Otsuka said 523m NEMs had…