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...
Binance has purportedly started notifying U.S. users by email that they have 14 days to shutter their accounts and take out all their money or have their accounts locked, Decrypt reported. The email reportedly told users that the firm found that they were aiming 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...
Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane advocated for the potential benefits digital currencies can offer in a recent speech given at TheCityUK 10th Anniversary Conference on Wednesday (Nov. 18). Haldane said the adoption of digital currencies would cause a structural shift in monetary policy,...