800k Bitcoin Miners Recently Shut Down
F2pool, believes that anywhere from 600k to 800k bitcoin miners have shut down since mid-November as the bitcoin network’s hashrate - and the cryptocurrency’s price - have declined. Ripple has relea...
26 Nov 20187min
Giga Watt Declares Bankruptcy
The U.S-based crypto mining firm Giga Watt filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy this past Monday, but it still owes creditors some $7 million. Insurance coverage in the crypto space totals about $6 billi...
21 Nov 20186min
Bakkt delays its launch until next year
The ICE’s bitcoin futures trading platform Bakkt is delaying its product launch. The U.K.’s FCA is considering a ban on some cryptocurrency-based derivatives, a senior executive has said. The Ala...
20 Nov 20186min
Bitcoin drops below $5K
Bitcoin’s price fell below $5,000 for the first time since October 12, 2017, dropping more than $500 to hit $4,981 earlier today. Despite the falling crypto prices, developers and entrepreneurs are ...
19 Nov 20185min
Bitcoin, the Evil Spawn
A European Central Bank executive board member said this week that blockchain is promising – but that bitcoin is “the evil spawn of the financial crisis.” Two cryptocurrency startups have agreed to ...
16 Nov 20185min
Bitcoin Cash War Begins
Bitcoin cash's contentious hard fork happened today around 1 pm eastern time. Notable consumer bitcoin mining pioneer Baliji Srinivasan is backing a startup seeking to take another stab at populariz...
15 Nov 20186min
SPECIAL: MarketWatch & CoinDesk Survey Results
Bitcoin fell to its lowest price in over 12 months on Wednesday amid a broader cryptocurrency market sell-off. A new BitLicense has been issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services...
14 Nov 20181h 4min
Oil is the New Data
It's increasingly looking like Bitcoin Cash mining pools will run a version of the software called Bitcoin SV. An ongoing legal battle between XRP investors and payments startup Ripple is entering i...
13 Nov 20185min
