BitcoinNews.com Daily Market Analysis: New Year’s Eve Edition

2018 in Hindsight: Do Not Forget Where the Cryptocurrency Market Was When 2017 Began This is the last day of cryptocurrency trading for 2018, and it has been a wild year, with Bitcoin dropping from over  USD 20,000 on 17 December 2017 to less than USD 4,000 today. The other major cryptocurrencies,...

Bitcoin’s Institutionalization: Dates to Watch in 2019

<br /><br /> <br /><br /> It’s been over a year since the Cboe and CME listed the world’s first bitcoin futures contracts, the first ever bitcoin investment product to hit the legacy market. Both futures went live just before bitcoin peaked at its $20,000 all-time high. Out-the-gate trading for the derivatives reflected 2017’s market mania, and Cboe’s futures alone traded over...

BitcoinNews.com Daily Podcast 30 December 2018: Crypto Market Showing Some Weakness As December Ends

Listen to the 30 December 2018 BitcoinNews.com Daily Podcast below. On this edition of the BitcoinNews.com Daily Podcast, we discuss how the stock market is beginning to have a bigger correlation with the crypto market. That being said, the crypto market is showing some weakness...

Security Researchers Reveal Wallet Vulnerabilities On Stage at 35C3

<br /><br /> <br /><br /> In a demonstration titled “Wallet.fail,” a team of security researchers hacked into the Trezor One, Ledger Blue and Ledger Nano S. Unfortunately, it appears as if their findings were first put on display at the 35th Chaos Communication Congress (35C3) in Leipzig, Germany, rather than through accepted Responsible Disclosure practices, which would have...

Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Nvidia Over Crypto-Related Stock Losses

A class action lawsuit has been filed against the high-end GPU manufacturer Nvidia after it claimed a decline in business was relative to cryptocurrency mining. Schall Law firm announced the lawsuit a week ago in a press release, and has called out to investors who purchased Nvidia stocks between “10...

Blockchain Analysis Is About to Get Harder as P2EP Enters Testing Phase

<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions.Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder. An early version of...

Crypto Mom’s Crusade: Inside the SEC, Hester Peirce Is Putting Up a Fight

Having worked over a decade in government before becoming a commissioner to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Hester Peirce is a regulator well-versed in matters of both rulemaking and securities law. from Bitcoin news | Published News | Bitcoin news via TOday bitcoin ne...

Wells Fargo to Pay out $575 Million for Scamming Customers After Rejecting Crypto Credit Card Transactions

In what could be the most ironic case for cryptocurrency investors in 2018 Wells Fargo, the third largest bank in the US has been hit with a $575 million settlement after scamming its customers over a period of 15 years. The settlement will be of particular interest to cryptocurrency investors who...

Startups Pay Out $878,000 For Ethical Hackers’ Fixes in 2018

It has been revealed that cryptocurrency startups paid out over $878,000 in bounty to friendly hackers for solving bugs in 2018. The so-called ethical hackers were hired due to a variety of vulnerabilities in start-up platforms’ cybersecurity protocols. About 60 percent of the 2018 total was paid out...

2018 Was the Reality Check. 2019 Starts the Crypto Comeback

Micah Winkelspecht is CEO and founder of Gem, a crypto portfolio app company based in Los Angeles, The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  If 2017 was the year of irrational exuberance, 2018 became the year of reality checks when the market sputtered and crashed. I predict that this year will [&#8230;] from Bitcoin news | Published News | Bitcoin...

North America: Crypto and Blockchain News Roundup 22-28 December 2018

North America Welcome to another weekly blockchain news roundup from around the world. Here we present to you all the latest Bitcoin news continent by continent and country by country. USA Lawmakers Looking to Revisit Definition of Cryptocurrencies to Favour Cryptocurrencies: Two Congressmen in bipartisan...

Time Cites Bitcoin as Financial Liberator

An article in US Magazine Time has cited Bitcoin’s real value as being a liberating financial tool for the future. Time claims that such quality has been overridden by “speculation, fraud, and greed in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, overshadowing the real, liberating potential of Satoshi...

Europe: Crypto and Blockchain News Roundup 22-28 December 2018

Europe Welcome to another weekly blockchain news roundup from around the world. Here we present to you all the latest Bitcoin news continent by continent and country by country. United Kingdom Tax Collection Service Publishes Guidelines for Private Cryptocurrency Holders: The UK Tax Service has published...

Africa and the Middle East: Crypto and Blockchain News Roundup 22 – 28 December 2018

Africa and the Middle East Welcome to another weekly blockchain news roundup from around the world. Here, we present to you all the latest Bitcoin news, continent by continent and country by country. African Union Paxful Reports Increase in Cryptocurrency Usage in Africa: African countries including...

Asia and Australia: Crypto and Blockchain News Roundup 22 – 28 December 2018

Asia and Australia Welcome to another weekly blockchain news roundup from around the world. Here, we present to you all the latest Bitcoin news, continent by continent and country by country. Japan Government Swamped with New Exchange Applications as Year’s End Approaches: Top Japanese financial watchdog...

The End of the First Crypto Decade

Massimo Morini is a veteran in investment banks and financial institutions including the World Bank. Some of his research on blockchain was reported here and here. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  The end of 2018 is not the end of a year. It is the end of a decade, a decade that changed the world [&#8230;] from...

South America: Crypto and Blockchain News Roundup 22 – 28 December 2018

South America Welcome to another weekly blockchain news roundup from around the world. Here, we present to you all the latest Bitcoin news, continent by continent and country by country. Brazil Exchanges Looking for Mergers/Acquisitions due to the low price index of Bitcoin: Brazilian exchanges...

The Biggest Bitcoin Predictions for 2019

The bullish Bitcoin predictions for 2018 may have fallen rather flat with Bitcoin standing at USD 3,870 at press time, but many experts insist 2019 will be the year institutional investors enter the space and prompt for far better performance. Barry Silbert: “In 2019 it will not just be easy to...