The soaring popularity of cryptocurrencies is having an increasing number of unprecedented side-effects. Headlines have already been made about developing issues such as ICO scams, environmental concerns and governmental regulation which, a couple of years ago, few would have foreseen. And it seems that another one is developing; Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) miners are…
BlackRock, the world’s largest investment company with over $5 trillion in assets under management, has become the latest prominent figure in the financial world to take a “not now but maybe later” approach to the fast-expanding cryptocurrency industry. In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Monday, Isabelle Mateos Y Lago, Chief Multi-Asset Strategist at BlackRock,…
London Football Exchange Set To Launch Its Own Soccer Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency is creeping into every industry in the world and as a result, “The Beautiful game” is following suit by launching the world’s first soccer cryptocurrency. Last week, Arsenal Football Club became the first club to enter a cryptocurrency partnership with CashBet. Now, the blockchain technology is set to…
A British man has been forced to hand over Bitcoin (BTC) at gunpoint in what is the first armed cryptocurrency theft in the country, say reports. Danny Aston, 30, called the police to his home in Moulsford, Oxfordshire, at 9:40 am GMT on Monday after four masked robbers forced entry. The robbers reportedly demanded that…
Have you ever visited or watched a video on the Website YouTube? I’m sure most of us have at some point. Last week it was discovered that hackers have used the video streaming giant to mine cryptocurrency on users computers. Just recently the company started implementing more advertisements into its videos, as it has always…
Have you ever visited or watched a video on the Website YouTube? I’m sure most of us have at some point. Last week it was discovered, in a YouTube ad hack, that hackers have used the video streaming giant to mine cryptocurrency on users computers. Just recently the company started implementing more advertisements into its…
Cryptocurrency has hit a new low today as Useless Ethereum Token (UET) is by far the fastest-growing coin on the market; probably the most ironic thing ever to happen in the world of digital currency. The coin, which is clearly advertised as useless, of no value, and only there to earn its creator enough money…
With quite a bit of emphasis put on the value of the crypto-currencies, or some would say the lack thereof, and the regulatory oversight on the offering of such crypto-currencies to the public, namely the process called Initial Coin Offering (ICO), the risks of market abuse have been far less discussed. In the modern age…
With quite a bit of emphasis put on the value of the crypto-currencies, or some would say the lack thereof, and the regulatory oversight on the offering of such crypto-currencies to the public, namely the process called Initial Coin Offering (ICO), the risks of market abuse have been far less discussed. In the modern age…
What is going to happen to ICOs in 2018? Will it lead to the death of ICOs or will ICOs continue to flourish? 2017 witnessed the upstart of ICOs – initial coin offerings – and many believe that ICOs are the driving factor behind why there are so many altcoins in circulation now. What, then,…
