Forget the Bitcoin bubble-talk and gear-up for surprise Mega-pumps In the last few weeks, we saw a steep correction unfolding across cryptocurrency markets as a spate of hacks compounded worries that the world’s third-largest market for Bitcoin trade-South Korea-was cracking ...
Read More »Crypto Industry: Bitcoins & Altcoins Down Across The Market after a Short Stint Of Green
Following a volatile beginning of the new year, the crypto markets are again falling throughout the board. The vast majority of the very best twenty coins on CoinMarketCap have been in the red on Monday, Jan. 22, with the largest loss around ...
Read More »ICO: What is this and why I picked these two ICOs ?
What is Initial Coin Offering (ICO)? An unregulated means where funds are raised for a fresh cryptocurrency venture. An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is utilized by startups to bypass the rigorous and regulated capital-raising process required by venture capitalists or ...
Read More »Bear, Bull, Pigs and BitCoin
“Bears get rich. Bulls get rich. Pigs get poor.” Bear A bear is someone who believes the market will do poorly. They invest in bonds, safe stocks and find ways to bet against the market. They make money because they ...
Read More »Nigeria’s SureRemit raises ₦2.5 bln ($7m) via ICO
Nigeria-based non-cash remittance platform SureRemit has raised ₦2.5 bln (US$7 million) via an innitial coin offering (ICO) to roll out its digital voucher system that makes payments easier and cheaper. BuyAltCoinsNigeria reported at the end of this past year SureRemit had ...
Read More »Bitcoin Fees Are going down as more Exchange Platforms Adopt Segwit
Transaction fees, a bugbear for a lot of in the bitcoin community, are on the way down. Spiraling fees were a contentious issue that reached fever pitch in the twilight of 2017. But with the dawn of a brand new ...
Read More »Runaway Train Towards Full Digitization of Money and Labor
by Peter Koenig for the Saker blog The other day I was in a shopping mall looking for an ATM to get some cash. There was no ATM. A week ago, there was still a branch office of a local bank ...
Read More »Bitcoin Rediscovers ₦4,690,250 ($12,850), Altcoins Drop To 40% (‘Expected Dip?’)
Bitcoin dipped as little as ₦4,692,075 ($12,855) Friday morning as traders watch a steep new correction unfold across cryptocurrency markets. From highs of ₦7.28 Mln over ($20,000) on some exchanges last weekend, Bitcoin tumbled by as much as 30 percent, ...
Read More »China, Nigeria lead world Bitcoin transactions in 2017
China and Nigeria lead the world’s peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin transactions in the year 2017 outpacing major European countries, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, according to data from LocalBitcoins.com. Despite the clampdown on bitcoin exchanges and orders ...
Read More »Return Match: Bitcoin’s SegWit2X Set to Fork on December 28
BTC holders will get B2X in the ratio of 1 to 1, and numerous Satoshi Nakamoto`s bitcoins. Supporters of Bitcoin’s controversial SegWit2X hard fork have just announced that the split will soon be revived, based on a record ...
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