Chinese token offerings have raised a whopping $1.18 billion in the first half of 2019, accounting for 33.2% of the total funds ($3.39 billion) raised from token sales, despite the country’s crackdown on crypto-related activities. According to data from InWara, out of the 583 token offer...
The latest bitcoin rally not only brings the crypto market back to life but also hackers. Tencent Security reported on July 9 that they monitored a mining Trojan called Burimi has hacked over 33 million email accounts demanding for bitcoin ransom. The attacker first tries to hack VNC w...
People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, has been reportedly stepping up its effort in creating its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) in response to Facebook’s Libra. The topic has now been one of the most trending hashtags on Weibo (Twitter-like social media in Chi...
Bitcoin was largely shunned by the traditional financial world in its early years, as it was mostly viewed as a joke or as fake online money for people who wanted to buy drugs on Silk Road. However, as the cryptocurrency continued to exist year after year, the traditional players started to take...
The average correlation between Bitcoin and most other large cryptoassets declined in Q2 2019 unlike the previous quarter, a Binance's Crypto-Correlations Review has shown. Though general correlations amongst other cryptoassets remained quite high in Q2, the report says Bitcoin's corre...
Regardless of whatever reference is made today to the person of the supposed creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, the co-founder of a crypto data platform thinks the leading cryptocurrency has grown beyond the need to have him around. Bobby Ong, the co-founder of Coingecko in Malaysia, ...
Sina Finance, one of China’s largest financial news providers, has added bitcoin and cryptocurrency support to its application. The app of Sina Finance, with over 10 million monthly active users (as of the end of 2018), on July 3 added cryptocurrency feature where real-time price inde...
A report by Chainalysis estimates that $1 billion dollars will be spent on illegal businesses on the dark web in 2019, but that the proportion of bitcoin transactions that involve illegal activity has declined. This analysis was delivered in the form of a webinar, laying out some of the basic ...
Bitcoin adoption is on the rise in the U.S. as an increasing number of investors are turning to digital assets to add diversity to their investment portfolios, according to new research by Coinbase. For the research, published as “The United States of Crypto,” the leading cryptocurrenc...
If Bitcoin conference keynotes are like headliners at a music festival, Edward Snowden was Bitcoin 2019’s Jack White. Or Childish Gambino, or the entire Red Hot Chili Peppers, or Paul McCartney — or a combination of all of these. Snowden’s fireside chat with BTC Inc CEO...
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