Well, it’s been a heck of a week in the bitcoin market and its only Thursday! As of midday Nov 15, bitcoin (BTC) traded at $5555.46, a 12.8% drop from $6371.74 on Nov 12. In the same timeframe,...
Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder and analyst Tom Lee says despite appearances, incremental steps in the market have been positive but the next six months are critical for cryptocurrency. Lee says the past weeks 17% gain the overall cryptocurrency...
We forgive you if you’re confused about whether the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) considers bitcoin or other altcoins a “security.” Today in an interview on CNBC, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said some cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are...
Noted VC Tim Draper spoke bullishly about bitcoin and blockchain at the TNW 2018 conference in Amsterdam recently. Draper was inspiring and engaging as always and we’ve got highlights following. But, spoiler alert. Let’s just say his Notorious...
Yale’s Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller just can’t say enough bad things about bitcoin. Drawing a comparison with dinosaurs, Shiller said bitcoin could be extinct in 100 years. "Bitcoin won't look anything like it is today. It will have...
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...
In Manhattan, JPMorgan Chase & Co has been sued for charging surprise fees when it cut off customers buying cryptocurrency with credit cards in late January and started treating digital coin purchases as cash advances. The class-action lawsuit...
Regulators around the world have clamped down hard on cryptocurrency, especially fishy ICOs and pseudo securities. Why, then, is Japan so out of step with the global family of regulators? After all, it’s home to two of the...
Bitcoin’s first quarter of 2018 was BAD! And not in any street jive talk sort of bad being great, cool or stoked. Just simply bad if you were a market timing trader. And altcoins were no better. Let’s...
In a post late last week, Stefan Hofrichter, head of global economics and strategy at Allianz Global Investors, says "It appears to us that bitcoin mania is a textbook-like bubble – and one that is probably just...
This post is a departure from our mostly serious coverage of cryptocurrency and blockchain. If you’re a fan of John Oliver and his comic insights into everyday life on TV, then read on for highlights from a...
This post is a departure from our mostly serious coverage of cryptocurrency and blockchain. If you’re a fan of John Oliver and his comic insights into everyday life on TV, then read on for highlights from a...