Bitcoin thief Sergey Sergeyevich Medvedev, a Russian national and co-founder of Infraud, has been arrested in Bangkok by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). At his time of arrest, the cybercrime expert had in his possession more than 100,000 Bitcoins. Infraud; a dark-web marketplace, was seized and taken offline by U.S authorities. The website was a one-stop-shop…
The crypto market continues to struggle today, but many of the top ten cryptocurrencies are just on the cusp of being up rather than down. Cardano (ADA) and Litecoin (LTC) are included here, each altcoin with less than a 1% loss at the moment. There are a number of reasons why the crypto market might…
By now, it is a known fact that the cryptocurrency industry comes with a significant amount of risk. Up until this point, however, the public has called for banks, governments, and exchanges to take more responsibility for all of the risks investors might come across. However, based on an interview posted today with CNBC, it…
Distributed-ledger technology Putting the semantics to bed early, blockchain is the name designated to a string or chain of transaction records (blocks), cryptographically signed with “hashes,” or digital signatures. Though undoubtedly the most high-profile application of blockchain, the bitcoin network is just one example of how cryptocurrencies and other transactions can use this technology. Blockchain…
The man has spoken. On Tuesday, the president of the European Central Bank joined the conversation regarding cryptocurrency regulation. More specifically, the ECB president discussed the bank’s viewpoint on whose responsibility it is to regulate bitcoin. Unfortunately, it might not have been what people were hoping to hear from the former Italian central banker. What…
February 13, 2018 – Ripple Price Watch. Key Highlights: Ripple recently broke above the $1.05 price level, reaching as high as $1.09 A bullish trend line is forming to test resistance at around $1.00 Short-term averages are giving a bullish signal Ripple Breaks Above $1.05, Further Upside Shown Ripple (XRP) recently broke above the $1.05…
Key Highlights: ETH failed to hold support at $865, falling to as low as $821.11 It was unable to break through at the $900 level over the weekend A bullish trend has formed to test a new resistance at $846 ETH/USD Fails to Hold Support ETH price reached the $900 mark over the weekend but…
On Tuesday morning, BTC managed to bounce back to $8,900 and reached its daily high of $8,952.90. The coin is trading at $8,545.10 as of 12 PM EST, which means it rebounded by approximately 20% over the past week. Further Upside For BTC/USD With the price movements observed recently, further upside is expected for BTC.…
There’s a lot of red out there in the big ol‘ ocean of crypto. The shining stars of the top ten cryptocurrencies are Stellar (XLM) and EOS. The week is hardly halfway over yet and already, brand new crypto regulations loom as more bodies of government warn against splashing in the waves that are cryptocurrencies.…
Have you ever gone to purchase something on an e-commerce website like eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) and found the option to pay via the PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) commerce button? Well now, Coinbase has rolled out a commerce platform that might be extremely appealing to merchants. This allows merchants to seamlessly integrate cryptocurrency payments into their current platforms. Currently, Coinbase offers…
