‘Cryptocurrency’ Articles

Bitcoin has a theoretical bottom price that is very likely related to the electricity cost of mining. The cost to mine Bitcoin is different due to geographic location, energy generation mix and the amount of electric subsidies provided by government. Once the price of Bitcoin falls below the cost of production the amount of new [Continue]

The Legal requirement for the Custodian of the Mt.Gox Bankruptcy to liquidate Bitcoin (BTC) on the open market to exchange Bitcoin for Japanese Yen is over! As of June 22nd 2018 Mt.Gox has been able to change redistribution of their assets from the bankruptcy jurisdiction to one of Civil Rehabilitation. This means that the remaining [Continue]

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Director of Corporate Finance William Hinman said during a speech at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit in San Fransisco that the Ethereum network and its cryptocurrency Ether do not constitute securities — and as such are out of the purview of US securities law. Hinman also said the test to [Continue]

New cryptocurrency ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) would be big positive news for small investors-New cryptocurrency Index Funds are even BIGGER news, but typically Index Funds are for Big Banks and Accredited Investors that just want to buy and hold for the longer term. Kind of a coincidence that right after Wells Fargo and many other [Continue]

Cryptocurrency News items worthy of attention:   * Reuters News Survey: At least 56 Finance Firms will enter the Crypto market in the next 3 to 6 months. (cointelegraph.com) * 88 million USD of Litecoin (LTC) transferred in 2 1/2 minutes for only 40 cents in fees. (globalcoinreport.com) * 2nd largest electric utility in Japan [Continue]

Cryptocurrency News items worthy of attention: * Tron (TRX) to airdrop 30 million tokens on holders of Ethereum (ETH). (dailyhodl.com) * IOTA’s Tangle technology is being used for Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging and to complete machine-to-machine transactions in the Netherlands. (finder.com.au) * JP Morgan & National Bank of Canada test [Continue]

Cryptocurrency News items worthy of attention: * NASA to use Ethereum blockchain to help spacecraft avoid space debris. (space.com) * Less than 1% of Bitcoin is used for illegal purposes— says report from Foundation for Defense of Democracies. (markets.businessinsider.com) * Alibaba partners with Waltonchain. (trustnodes.com) * IMF’s Lagarde [Continue]

Cryptocurrency News items worthy of attention: * Verge privacy coin partners with Pornhub.com. (wired.com) * Buy & Sell Real Estate using Bitcoin, Ethereum or Litecoin. (bitcoin-realestate.com) * Six leading global banks (Barclays, Credit Suisse, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, HSBC, MUFG & State Street) have joined forces to create [Continue]

Cryptocurrency News items worthy of attention: * YouTube and Facebook are losing content creators/artists to decentralized blockchain-powered platforms. (Bloomberg) * Po.et $POE releases a WordPress plugin to automatically timestamp your words/art on the blockchain etc. (blog.po.et) * Coinbase buys Cipher Browser for ERC20 tokens, which they soon [Continue]

Cryptocurrency News items worthy of attention: * Pantera Capital (ranked 15 out of 1000’s of venture capital firms by Crunchbase) says Bitcoin has bottomed out. (bloomberg.com) * Billionaire Tech investor Tim Draper correctly predicted $10,000 Bitcoin in 2017—now says Bitcoin $250,000 by 2022. (cnbc.com) * South Koreans ask government for [Continue]