Bitcoin (BTC) has continued to ratchet higher, rising 94% since December 1st, on continued institutional and retail interest. The market cap now stands at US$316 billion on US$6.1 billion in trading volume over the last 24 hours. Hash rate and difficulty continue to make new highs, with hash rate nearing 15 exahashs per second. This far exceeds the estimated…
Since the announcement by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to launch bitcoin futures contracts, the price of bitcoin has rallied by over 215 percent from $6,200 to over $19,800 in only six weeks. This rally was further fuelled when the U.S. CFTC approved the bitcoin futures contracts and the CBOE announced that it would follow…
The momentum behind the autonomous vehicle movement has been growing rapidly as the major technology vendors, and new players, seek to define the future of road transport. RethinkX has estimated that by 2030, within 10 years of regulatory approval, 95% of all US passenger miles will be served by autonomous transport-as-a-service providers. Jeff Klei,…
