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2.4KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Is Cryptocurrency The Next [Tech] Bubble?
Reaching the peak interest among those in a particular industry just before it goes mainstream is something that’s happened on more than...
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4.8KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Battle For The Cryptocurrency Crown
Distributed ledger technology (blockchain) has made significant headway this year, and people are starting to take notice. At the beginning of 2017,...
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3.5KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Bitcoin Cash, What’s Next For Retailers?
All is not running business as usual in the bitcoin realm. The digital currency that has been around for nearly a decade...
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2.4KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: How Secure Are Bitcoins?
Security in the digital age is a goal for most retailers and consumers — and nearly everyone else in the business world. When...
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Bitcoin Tracker: Mainstream Acceptance On The Rise
Bitcoin came onto the scene nearly a decade ago in 2009 and has slowly been making strides in the financial world ever...
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4.9KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Before And After The Surge
On Monday, bitcoin prices hit a record high at $2,100 per coin. On Wednesday, the cryptocurrency hit another milestone at $2,416 a...
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5.6KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: WannaCry Doesn’t Pay
It’s been a rocky week for bitcoin — and we don’t just mean in terms of price. Actually, bitcoin’s price at the...
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Bitcoin Tracker: Another Day, Another All-Time High
Bitcoin’s growing just about as fast as we can write about it — as are a number of other cryptocurrencies, for that...
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Bitcoin Tracker: Blowing Past Milestones
Sometimes it pays to be volatile — but there’s always the nagging risk of losing it all. Bitcoin’s value keeps breaking through...
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5.3KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Crypto-Catch-22
In the last few weeks, three separate bitcoin exchanges have reported a halt on processing transactions in dollars — the result of...
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7.1KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: No More Wire Transfers?
Bitcoin’s (BTC) riding high once again as the third week of April rolls to a close. BTC values are rising to approach...
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4.4KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Miner’s Delight
The past week saw bitcoin (BTC) rise to near-record highs above $1,230, only to fall sharply during Thursday afternoon trading. At the...
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6.1KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: A Bitcoin In Spring
A beacon of hope has emerged for bitcoin just in time for spring — and it’s brought up prices with it. While...
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13.6KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Another Tough Week
This past week proved once again that it’s tough to be a bitcoin fan. In another blow to bitcoin legitimacy, the U.S....
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5.7KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Tale Of Two Bitcoins
Bitcoin prices suffered further losses this past week. As the reality of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejection sunk in, concern...
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Bitcoin Tracker: Crypto-Roller Coaster
It has been another wild ride of a week for bitcoin in the wake of the SEC ruling. At the tail end...
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6.3KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: What Goes Up
“What goes up must come down” is, unfortunately, the most appropriate proverb to open this week’s bitcoin tracker. It all started when...
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6.9KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Blowing Bubbles
This is not a drill. Bitcoin’s market cap is currently well over $20 billion as value rose well over $200 in the...
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4.7KBitcoinSEC Bitcoin ETF Decision Looms, Prices Soar
Officials from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reportedly met with the Winklevoss twins on Feb. 14, said Bloomberg, to discuss...
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7.2KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Up, Up And Away?
Is there an alternative, profound French phrase or two that can describe what investors have seen this week with bitcoin? Because “déjà...
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6.6KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Denouement?
Bitcoin prices rose relatively steadily this past week, overcoming investor skittishness seen the week prior when Chinese regulators doubled down on bitcoin...
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7.8KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: All Eyes On China
After a couple weeks without major movement, investors and acquirers are showing interest in bitcoin. First, CoinDesk acquired San Francisco-based bitcoin and...
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7.4KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: The Beat Goes On
Bitcoin’s value just broke $1,000. Again. And then went below. Again. Then up and down again. (Anyone else feeling seasick?) Following relatively...
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4.6KInnovationWindsor Circle Boosts E-Retail Retention, ROI
As retail pushes further into online spaces, many marketers and merchants alike are focused on clicks and open rates to measure the...
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3.5KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Smooth(ish) Sailing?
The price of the popular digital currency spent the week climbing back up after fears that China could crack down on its...
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7.7KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Fight Or Flight
Bitcoin’s volatile tendencies were on full display this past week. After flirting with record highs just over one week ago, bitcoin fell...
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3.8KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Bye Bye, $1,000+
This week’s Bitcoin Tracker is like a game of good news, bad news. To keep us in good spirits heading into the...
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10.1KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: An Outrageous Prediction
The second week of December saw bitcoin sit pretty solidly in the 750s and 760s after last week’s high point of $777...
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13.1KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Bitcoin Flies High
Only two days in, and December has already been good to bitcoin. This week saw bitcoin’s price jump over its previous 2016...
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Bitcoin Tracker: Bitcoin Black Friday
In this week’s Bitcoin Tracker, bitcoin soars, then settles down and plans for its yearly sale abound. Switzerland gives bitcoin a hand...
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9.8KBitcoinBitcoin Tracker: Challengers And Backlogs
It’s been a varied week for bitcoin. First, some positive news: Bitcoin’s upward pricing trend continues, more or less. It opened this...
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Bitcoin Tracker: Easy Access Is ‘Easier’ With ATMS & Gift Cards
Is there a run on bitcoin? Before you panic, know that the answer is “certainly not yet.” But after last week’s DDoS...
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7.7KBitcoinBitcoin Soars In Japan, But What’s ‘Synthetic Currency?’
This week’s Bitcoin Tracker finds Russia’s resource-guarding of the ruble nixed by an acceptance of bitcoin, for now. Other news finds that...
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Bitfinex, Who Really Dunnit And How?
The fallout from the Bitfinex hack, which cost the digital exchange $72 million, has customers losing 36 percent of the assets that...
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5.9KBitcoinBitfinex And LexisNexis: Bitcoin’s Insecure Week
Consider the difficulty in stashing an intangible digital currency into a swag bag. But then, hacking into bitcoin user accounts is no...
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EU Pushes For Bitcoin Database And Transparency
Anonymous is the name of bitcoin’s game. But Europe might like to make it less so. The European Commission would like to create a...
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Bitcoin’s (Donald) Trump Card
Bitcoin’s trump card may be Donald Trump. Yes, this is a very real story based on an actual Juniper Research study that...
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Bitcoin’s Big Halving Countdown And ‘Long Tail Risk’
On July 9, 2016, just eight days away, the bitcoin market is going to change. As for the impact of that change,...
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Bitcoin’s Brexit Effect
What goes up must come down. A week ago, bitcoin had surpassed the $700 mark, and the headlines were giddy with excitement...
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Canada’s CAD-COIN — And Bitcoin’s Price Rally
Is the concept of “experimenting with a digital dollar” the financial services industry’s version of the hula hoop? Flash in the pan...
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Bitcoin’s 2016 Price Trends: Highs And Lows
Compared to 2015, bitcoin has had a stellar 2016. But when it comes to bitcoin’s price, it’s all relative. So before the...
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How Long Will Bitcoin’s Price Boom Stick?
Is bitcoin making a comeback? Oh, if we had a bitcoin for every time we’ve heard that question. Actually, that would be pretty...
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The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Math That Doesn’t Add Up
The Mt. Gox bitcoin drama got a little more dramatic this week. As a quick refresher, Mt. Gox is the now-defunct bitcoin exchange that...
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Bitcoin’s ‘Robin Hood Hacker’ Targets ISIS
Good intentions gone bad? “Robin Hood Hacker Donates $11,000 of Stolen Bitcoin to Help Fight ISIS.” This is a real story and...
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Should Obama ‘Heed The Call’ On Bitcoin?
President Barack Obama and his administration get a lot of demands, to say the least. Stop ISIS, bring peace to the Middle...
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Craig Wright To Bitcoin Community: So Long, Farewell
Get your popcorn ready. News broke earlier in the week that Craig Wright, the 45-year-old Australian computer scientist/engineer, would finally come out...
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Lawsky Backs Blockchain, Bitcoin Miners Take On Trump’s Wall
Benjamin Lawsky, the former New York state financial services chief, certainly wasn’t a fan of bitcoin or virtual currencies. But now, he...
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Blockchain’s Wall Street Test And Satoshi Has A Birthday
Bitcoin plus blockchain plus banks still seems like an unlikely combination, despite news that JPMC and Citigroup have completed their tests about using...
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Bitcoin: Fact, ‘Fiction’ Or A ‘Virus?’
What do a Russian presidential advisor and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon have in common? If you guessed a disdain and hatred for...
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Bitcoin’s Ransomware Problem And Bernie’s ‘Bitcoin Bounty’
City held hostage. Hospital held hostage. Businesses held hostage. Thank you, bitcoin. And one of the many reasons why, among plenty of other...
