Bitfinex levies traders with unused financing fee to curb artificial inflation

Jan 11, 2017

In the wake of the People's Bank of China PBoC meeting with top Chinese Bitcoin exchanges, Bitfinex has announced it will henceforth slam an unused financing fee on users whose actions indicate what it describes as a systematically manipulative behavior. “Effective immediately, the pl...

Bitcoin market cap tops $18 billion

Jan 5, 2017

In the wake of its eighth-year anniversary, Bitcoin’s global market capitalization has crossed the $18 billion range having grown at a 24-hour rate of over 6% which saw it add over $1 billion in a day, according CoinMarketCap. Bitcoin marked its anniversary on Tuesday January 3 when the ...