Bitcoin saw a new all-time record high on Monday (Nov. 30), rising above $19,800 in the morning and resting at 19,633.264 at 7:32 p.m. Eastern Time. The high price point beat its previous record high, set in 2017, CNBC reported. Bitcoin’s price has been steadily...
Pizza Hut will now accept cryptocurrency as a form of payment at its stores in Venezuela, Cointelegraph reported. Crypto merchant gateway firm Cryptobuyer announced in a tweet on Nov. 27 that it was partnering with the pizza chain to process cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Binance...
The Federal Ministry of Finance in Nigeria is said to be in discussions with the securities watchdog in the country to create a new digital currency and blockchain structure, Cointelegraph reported. The ministry is working with the Securities and Exchange Commission located in Abuja to...
Bitcoin continued its price climb today (Nov. 24), rising above $19,000 in the morning, CNBC reported. At 6:31 pm EST, the digital currency still hit high, sitting at $19,083.92, as the coin approaches its record price of $19,783, which it hit in December of 2017....
Prices of digital coins Ethereum and XRP surged on Mon. (Nov. 23), riding the wave of bitcoin’s recent shooting price. Traders credit Ethereum’s rise to growing demand and a network upgrade expected in early December. The upgrade will reportedly make the coin more secure and...
PayPal and Square’s Cash App digital currency buying spree has reportedly triggered a bitcoin rally, according to a Benzinga report on Monday (Nov. 23). Blockchain and digital currency investment firm Pantera Capital said in a report that after analyzing numbers from the cryptocurrency exchange iBit,...
Malicious actors have now managed to momentarily take control over several cryptocurrency platforms by scamming employees at GoDaddy, the domain hosting service for these sites, in multiple attacks. On Nov. 18, NiceHash discovered that hackers had been able to briefly redirect email and web traffic...
A Citibank senior analyst predicted that bitcoin could reach $318,000 by December 2021 in a report written for Citibank’s institutional clients, according to CoinDesk. Thomas Fitzpatrick’s report was leaked on Twitter Friday (Nov. 13) by user “ClassicMacro,” who noted in a tweet, “there is no...
The Albany Airport is using a blockchain-based app to track the cleanliness of surfaces and objects in the airport due to health concerns with the pandemic, according to a report from Cointelegraph. The Wellness Trace App was developed by General Electric in partnership with TE-FOOD and...
