Around 3 per cent of the populace from the new middle class in China have included bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies in their investment portfolio, according to a recent survey conducted by researchers in the team of Wu Xiaobo, a famed financial writer and blogger on Chinese business and economics....
The importance of upgrading Bitcoin Core nodes to the latest version 0.16.3 has been emphasised following new information that the bug fixed in the update is more serious than it had been previously made to seem. [caption id="attachment_28250" align="aligncenter" width="1150"] Nodes that have...
Bitmain, the world’s dominant bitcoin mining hardware maker, is working smoothly on its looming IPO, according to source close to the company, in response to the recent claims that the company is on the verge of bankruptcy and stopping the IPO. The clarification came on the heels of cl...
Most recent notifications by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about crypto-based ETFs had negative effects on the market. However, its latest notice in which the SEC turned the table to ask the public for comments on a pending Bitcoin ETF application, seems to have...
AntPool, one of the world’s largest bitcoin mining pools, has been an official sponsor of the NBA Houston Rockets for the upcoming 2018-2019 season which kicks off in October, according to sources at Bitmain. Antpool employees and members of the Houston Rockets The sponsorship is...
As a jargon popular among Chinese crypto enthusiasts, “one day in the crypto sphere is one year in the earthly world”, used to vividly explain that the fluctuation of a cryptocurrency in a single day might be greater than the one-year volatility of other assets in value. A tech-savvy who use...
The week starts with some developments in Africa's crypto space which may shape related discussions in the region for coming days. Zimbabwe embracing Bitcoin? It starts with Zimbabwe's newly appointed finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, who made public his intention to push the country's cen...
Police in Shanghai have arrested the suspects who posted the sale message on a dark web forum in an attempt to sell data of 130 million hotel guests for 8 bitcoins. The hotel embroiled in the data breach, Huazhu Group Limited (NASDAQ: HTHT), is a leading and fast-growing hotel gr...
It's not clear where the numbers are coming from but venture capitalist, Tim Draper, seems to have a lot of them. Last month, he made a prediction that the price of Bitcoin will rise to $250,000 in the next four years. Now, in yet another forecast, DealStreetAsia reports that Draper bel...
As blockchain becomes a buzz of today, some choose to invest directly cryptocurrencies underpinned by this innovative technology, or start up blockchain firms, and some of the largest companies are also dabbing in the tech. Big names like Baidu (China’s Google), Alibaba (e-commerce conglomera...
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