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Just a few days ago, Facebook investor Peter Thiel announced that he’s been holding between $15-20 million in cryptocurrency, which correlated to a 10% price jump for Bitcoin after a week-long slump. And now today in a post on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned cryptocurrency and decentralization as the keys to a better future, also noting […]

When Cboe Group Inc. and CME Group Inc. launched their Bitcoin futures contracts last month, the attention and the response was overwhelming. The launches were featured on the cover of The Wall Street Journal and other high-impact news sources, and everyone seemed to have an opinion about their place in the mainstream investment arena. For […]

Bitcoin is starting 2018 in familiar fashion: with big gains. This time, the gains seem to be inspired by the news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, that early Facebook investor, Peter Thiel, invested millions of dollars in the digital currency. Thiel is the co-founder of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm that makes […]

Cryptocurrencies and their accompanying blockchain technology are full of promise. Even as they soared in value this year, there is an underlying exuberance for their promised use cases that transcend speculative investment, purchasing cheap goods on Overstock or luxury apartments in Dubai. So far, the fulfillment of that promise is mostly relegated to the crypto-space […]

Vitalik Buterin predicted in September 2017 that it will take a “couple of years” for the Ethereum Network to reach Visa-like capacity. Raiden (RDN) is one of the more notable efforts making progress towards this goal, using “off-chain” technologies to increase network capacity. The second most valuable token on the market is quietly building all of […]

The debate over what constitutes “store-of-value” has been raging for centuries. In today’s world, captains of industry and state are scrambling to understand the pros and cons of Bitcoin and its potential effect on the world economy. The captains of industry all have their own opinions and criteria on what it takes for a currency to be […]

With over 1300 cryptocurrencies and a never-ending supply of new ICOs, it can be next to impossible to stay up to date with new projects, let alone the established ones. While most cryptocurrency investors have probably heard about Waves, it may not be one everyone is completely familiar with. Introduction to Waves Waves is a blockchain […]

Has Christmas given you the Bitcoin blues? Bummed about transaction fees and speed? If you think that this is the beginning of the end for Bitcoin, think again: The Lightning Network is coming. Achievement unlocked: We've created a fully compatible Lightning Network on bitcoin! ✅⚡️https://t.co/wTqI4uKhkd — elizabeth stark (@starkness) December 6, 2017 Bitcoin developers has […]

Cryptocurrencies are at it again. After quickly recovering from a head-turning double digital price drop last week, Bitcoin dropped below $14,000 for the third time since crossing the $15,000 threshold at the beginning of December. As before, Bitcoin is not alone in its fall. According to data the coin rankings, only a handful of currencies […]

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are enjoying a manic year in which value increases of thousands of percent are not uncommon and in which obscure currencies once relegated to the fringes of the internet are being catapulted into the mainstream. It’s pretty incredible, and it’s not the best thing about cryptocurrencies. The underlying technology, the blockchain, […]