The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Thursday (Aug. 24) it has temporarily suspended trading in the securities of Canada-based company First Bitcoin Capital Corp. (BITCF). In a press release, the SEC said the suspension will stay in place until Sept. 7 of this year. “The Commission...
Reaching the peak interest among those in a particular industry just before it goes mainstream is something that’s happened on more than one occasion. Ranging from the housing bubble in the late 2000s to the dot-com bubble of the mid-’90s and the tech bubble of...
Distributed ledger technology (blockchain) has made significant headway this year, and people are starting to take notice. At the beginning of 2017, the cryptocurrency bitcoin was valued at just under $1,000 and soared up to over $3,000 in May. While it took a dive over...
Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, jumped more than 16 percent on Saturday (August 6) to an all-time high of $3,360.87 before hovering around $3,303, propelling market capitalization to more than $54 billion. According to a news report in CNBC, the virtual currency has more than tripled in...
All is not running business as usual in the bitcoin realm. The digital currency that has been around for nearly a decade has struggled to gain major traction in the mainstream industry outside of finance. Just last week, we reported on investors splitting off from...
A new digital currency called “bitcoin cash” (BCC), created by splitting the bitcoin blockchain, has risen in price nearly 200 percent — despite not having crucial support from parts of the cryptocurrency community. CNBC reported news that the digital currency token was created this week...
Security in the digital age is a goal for most retailers and consumers — and nearly everyone else in the business world. When it comes to personal information, especially data linked to payment accounts, the level of privacy and accuracy of security are key in keeping...
Bitcoin recently avoided being cleaved in two, thanks to a vital assist from its network of miners. According to Reuters, the cryptocurrency received a software upgrade that allows transactions to be processed with greater ease and speed. This would lead to a greater number of transactions...
Bitcoin has begun to make up recent losses in value as miners have potentially found a software-based solution that may make it possible to avoid a hard (or soft) fork in the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has been suffering form a scaling problem over the last two...
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