Page 35 - Latest Updates on Bitcoin
Bitcoin steadies amid Japan regulatory clampdown and Binance theft concerns
Japan's Financial Services Agency ordered two exchanges to halt operations for a month and penalized four others on Thursday
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After Facebook ad ban, Twitter moves to prevent crypto scams on platform
The measures come amid a boom in the price of bitcoin, the world's best known cryptocurrency.
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Bitcoin's plunge in daily transactions stirs questions about its use
The average number of trades recorded daily has roughly dropped in half from the December highs
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Energy-sapping Bitcoin mining is here to stay despite the 'wasteful' method
The current mining process is indeed resource-intensive and wasteful, but there is no magic fix in sight
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New currency for extremism? Here's why jihadists see Bitcoin as a boon
Cryptocurrency has become an increasingly discussed topic among jihadist groups in the Middle East
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Bitcoin plunges 20% to $6,190; experts warn it may drop another 50%
Today's collapse was fuelled by a flood of speculators looking to make a quick buck
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Bitcoin selloff accelerates with more than 10% fall at $7,289 on Bitstamp
Other cryptocurrencies also suffered double-digit declines in their prices on Monday, according to industry tracker Coinmarketcap.com
Bitcoin at fresh 2.5-month low as UK bank bans purchase via credit card
The price of Bitcoin on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange has now fallen by more than half from a peak of almost $20,000 hit in December
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How Bitcoin's popularity draws hackers into red-hot cryptocurrency space
Digital currencies have quickly grown into a more mainstream asset class
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Corporate Affairs Ministry asks ICAI to submit report on bitcoin auditing
At present, there is no available data on the quantum of Bitcoin transactions by Indian companies, something which the ICAI study will delve into
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Bitcoin for payments: Why critics' view is wrong and will become more so
In the last 3 months of 2017, almost $150 bn was processed in transactions - nearly 10 times more than a year earlier and seven times higher than what Western Union moves among consumers in a quarter
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Bitcoin can't save Putin, Kim Jong-un or Maduro from the sanctions squeeze
All the world's digital tokens are worth only about $700 billion
Bitcoin, housing bubble and Trump: Fact & fiction behind doomsaying in 2018
The most genuinely worrying thing that might happen in 2018 is armed conflict on the Korean Peninsula
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Bitcoin prices can drop by half and China's miners will still make money
Even at the country's highest regulated electricity tariff, miners can profit from bitcoin as long as it's worth more than $6,925
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Why you would be crazy to actually spend bitcoin
Speculative fervor makes the cryptocurrency clumsy for commerce
After 9 years and a $250 bn market cap, Bitcoin still awaits legal status
Bitcoin has had global central banks so worried that several are now mulling regulating the currency, legalising it, or evolving their own crypto currencies
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, other cryptocurrencies not legal tender in India: FM
Arun Jaitley emphasised that the Centre's consistent position was that such currencies were not legal tender
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Bitcoin holds overnight gains after last week's rout
Digital currency was last up almost 10% at $15,300.00 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange
From dentistry to sex trade, Bitcoin bug bites Indian entrepreneurs
Thanks to the business potential that the cryptocurrency has opened up directly or indirectly, many Indians across the spectrum are rushing to set up companies and cash in on the Bitcoin mania
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Bitcoin plunges below $12,000
The biggest and best-known cryptocurrency had seen a staggering twentyfold increase since the start of the year
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