According to VC Spencer Bogart, investors should forget about altcoins and focus on bitcoin. In a CNBC interview, he said the growing number of use cases for bitcoin shows increased potential. One indicator is that most major banks...
Fundstrat cryptocurrency analyst Tom Lee says recent news headlines about government investigations around ICOs and price manipulation signal the arrival of regulations for cryptocurrency on the horizon. Negative news stories about ICOs and cryptocurrency scams have pushed cryptocurrency...
Today, Bloomberg published an article that shows just how challenging it is for business reporters covering cryptocurrency. The story features a look by Bloomberg business reporters Olga Kharif and Lily Katz and how cryptocurrency scams targeted them personally and spoofed...
Love them or hate 'em, initial coin offerings (ICOs) are a cryptocurrency fact of life. If you want a really fast introduction and overview of ICOs, BTXchange.io has produced an infographic with a handy collection of well-researched...
The annual Consensus conference in New York City last week was supposed to bring a bitcoin and cryptocurrency rally according to Fundstrat’s Tom Lee and other analysts. In his May 7, 2018 newsletter, based on previous charts during...
The HoweyCoin is the latest in a growing lineup of ICOs scams with one difference. If you buy in, you’ll be getting scammed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). That’s right, the new initial coin offering...
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard’s presentation at cryptocurrency conference Consensus 2018 created lots of buzz. Both just for the fact that he attended as well as shared a presentation with the Fed’s current...
Goldman Sachs-backed Circle announced a new $110 million round of financing with some big-name backers including Bitmain, Accel, Blockchain Capital, Breyer, Digital Currency Group, General Catalyst, IDG, Pantera and Tusk Ventures. Even more important was the announcement of...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping a new partnership with ConsenSys-backed startup Kaleido will make it easier and faster for businesses to create and operate private blockchain networks. According to Gartner's 2018 CIO Survey of 3,138 CIOs, only...
When Facebook announced a small cryptocurrency development SWAT team earlier this week, it wasn’t quite clear where they might go with it. A new report from Cheddar shines some light on the payments and cryptocurrency possibilities. Facebook already...
Flaubert famously wrote “There is no truth. There is only perception.” Washington, DC politics aside, there’s no better description of the bitcoin and cryptocurrency market today. Let’s revisit bitcoin market perceptions to see if we can extract some...
If there was ever a bitcoin investor schism, stories from The New York Times and Reuters spelled out the differences loud and clear today. Bitcoin = rat poison? On one side you had the Omaha Oracle and Berkshire Hathaway...