The Bitcoin Halt saga: Microsoft Resumes Bitcoin Payments after a temporary halt

Author – Terri Wilson Tech giant MICROSOFT on 10th Jan resumed accepting bitcoin as a payment option to its products after temporarily halting it last week due to the instability of BTC and high transaction fees. Microsoft has allowed users…

Indian telecom giant Reliance Jio plans entry into the blockchain and cryptocurrency space using JioCoin

One of the largest mobile network operators in India, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, better known as Jio, has announced their plan to enter the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. They will also launch their own cryptocurrency JioCoin. Jio has only recently,…

Microsoft Resumes Bitcoin Payments after a temporary halt

Tech giant Microsoft on 10th Jan resumed accepting bitcoin as a payment option after temporarily halting it last week due to the instability of BTC and high transaction fees. Microsoft has allowed users to pay for goods and services using…

Renascence Of Cryptocurrency In China after ICO BAN

On Sept. 24, 2017, China banned initial coin offerings and cryptocurrency exchanges including Bitcoin in the first week of September 2017. The ban caused a precipitous drop in cryptocurrency flows worldwide.  Some of China’s best bitcoin trades and merchants suspended…

Bitfury Whitepaper Describes Method to De-Anonymize Bitcoin Transactions

By Guest Author Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash Bitcoin’s rise has attracted people from all spectrums of the world. Wall Street traders, Fintech entrepreneurs and even the CIA are all very interested. A vast amount of the world’s financial…

The future of Bitcoin: What are the main drivers of Bitcoin (BTC)?

By Guest Author – Sam Reads, Birmingham, UK In 2017, the price of Bitcoin was mainly influenced by Fundamentals and less of technical analysis. It was largely affected by three major factors which helped fuel its all-time of $20,089. The…

Ripple may not be a True cryptocurrency, centralized and not a mineable coin, Its a token – To Investors

Ripple(XRP) took over Ethereum(ETH) as the second place with the marketcap of over 135 billion past week. The value of the token has skyrocketed from around 20 cents to $3.5 in less than a month. The idea behind the Ripple…

Bitcoin Still Rocks – Price Analysis for the Christmas Week, the last week of 2017

As 2017 is coming to an end, the price action of Bitcoin for this week is moving from high of $16,800  towards the low of $11,300. The bitcoin is gaining traction on a global scale with the current market-cap of…

“Bitcoin” Search team On Google Trends Map – Top 5 Countries of 2017

With the rise of cryptocurrency this year, we analyzed to check which country in the world was searching for the word ‘Bitcoin’ highest on Google. We all often come to the conclusion that it may be United States, Japan, India…

The New SegWit2x ( B2X) of Dec 28th has no relation to the cancelled SegWit2x of November – Analysis

As we perform more analysis on the SegWit2x article we published yesterday, it appears that the current new Segwit2X has no relation to the previously cancelled SegWit2x. The new SegWit2x team gets the benefit of using the same name as the previous one to their…