Browse: Home Bitcoin Financial News (+) Stellar Lumens Skyrockets on New Year’s Day (+) Stellar Lumens Skyrockets on New Year’s Day 1, (+) Stellar Lumens Skyrockets on New Year’s Day For much of its history, bitcoin had been synonymous with the cryptocurrency market. But 2017 signaled a profound shift in market dynamics, with bitcoin accounting…
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$500mn crypto heist: Japanese exchange Coincheck halts trade, ‘deeply sorry’ for users’ loss
$500mn crypto heist: Japanese exchange Coincheck halts trade, ‘deeply sorry’ for users’ loss 04:36 Edited time: 27 Jan, 2018 05:40 Get short URL © Yuya Shino / Reuters The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has suspended trading and withdrawals, saying it “deeply regrets” the loss of tokens worth some $500 million in what appears to be…
Steem Price Up 49.5% Over Last 7 Days (STEEM)
Steem (CURRENCY:STEEM) traded 1.2% lower against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 22:00 PM ET on January 25th. One Steem coin can currently be purchased for $6.53 or 0.00056454 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges including Bittrex, HitBTC, OpenLedger DEX and Upbit. Over the last seven days, Steem has traded 49.5% higher against the…
Tether Trading Down 2.4% Over Last 7 Days (USDT)
Tether (CURRENCY:USDT) traded 0.3% lower against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 22:00 PM ET on January 25th. Over the last week, Tether has traded down 2.4% against the U.S. dollar. One Tether token can currently be bought for $1.00 or 0.00008659 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges including Binance, Upbit, ZB.COM…
Graphics card shortage leads retailers to take unusual measures
The circuit board of an AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics card. AMD The ongoing shortage of gaming graphics cards has kept prices for AMD’s and Nvidia’s midrange and high-end GPUs in the stratosphere, and retailers are taking steps to try to give gamers a better chance of buying the in-demand cards before cryptocurrency miners can…
The cryptocurrency market just suffered a theft worse than Mt. Gox – MarketWatch
Bitcoin prices and the value of other cryptocurrencies dropped on Friday as Tokyo-based Coincheck Inc. revealed that as much as $530 million in digital assets had been stolen, eliciting shades of the Mt. Gox hack back in 2014. In fact, at about half a billion dollars in digital assets absconded, the hack would represent the…
What’s in Store for NVIDIA’s Cryptocurrency Business in 2018?
7.5% to 9% Data source: NVIDIA. *Author’s rough estimates based on comments by CEO. NVIDIA’s total revenue from crypto sales in the past two quarters is greater than 6.7% and 2.7%, but we can’t know by how much. That’s because the company can’t know how many people are buying its GeForce gaming cards to use…
5 major things that happened with bitcoin in 2017
goinvestboom January, 2017 Bitcoin was worth appr. $1000. By the end of the year, its price rose over $15 000. This huge price increase however was merely a side effect of something much greater: worldwide cryptocurrency adoption! For those who have been using cryptocurrencies in 2017, we hope that you look back at the year…
“Biggest Theft In Crypto History”: Over $400MM Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange | Zero Hedge
0 SHARES Earlier today we reported that cryptocurrencies tumbled overnight after one of the most popular – if unlicensed – Japanese exchanges, Coincheck, halted withdrawals of funds and cryptos amid broad confusion as to what prompted the halt. Additionally, Coincheck said it had stopped deposits into NEM coins, a hint that something was very wrong…
Is Robinhood going to challenge Coinbase and rival platforms for dominance in bitcoin and Ethereum trading – MarketWatch
Published: Jan 27, 2018 12:53 p.m. ET Share Coinbase is the No. 1–ranked crypto exchange platform over the past six months By An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Ripple’s XRP tokens were a part of the Coincheck theft. That error has been corrected. AFP/Getty Images Can Robinhood steal market share from Coinbase?…