BTC/USD remains bullish, eyes 600 levels
Jun 10, 2016 12:30 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Following the recent massive jump, BTC/USD is now trading in a narrow range, between 570 and 580 levels. It currently trades at 576.29 levels at the time of writing. Ichimoku analysis of the daily chart (Bitstamp)...
Venezuelan freelancers bank upon bitcoin payments during financial recession
Jun 10, 2016 11:38 am UTC| Digital Currency
Venezuelan freelancers such as graphic designers, coders, musicians and writers, are surviving the worst economic crisis by earning bitcoins. Due to the worsened economic recession in Venezuela, the country had the...
MoneyGram, Earthport collaborate to offer Ripple tech-based remittance services
Jun 10, 2016 09:55 am UTC| Digital Currency
Money transfer and payment services MoneyGram has teamed up with Earthport and announced the launch of a new service that uses Ripple technology and allows users to send money directly to any Romanian bank account in...
Breakout Coin debuts in 6.6 million token public coinsale on Bittrex on June 13
Jun 10, 2016 09:17 am UTC| Digital Currency
More than two years in the making, Breakout Coin will debut its eagerly awaited public coinsale at 10 am PDT / 1 pm EDT / 5 pm GMT on Monday, June 13. The sale will be hosted by a leading cryptocurrency exchange...
Bitcoin exchange Coin.mx individuals extradited to US from Israel
Jun 10, 2016 06:51 am UTC| Digital Currency
The US Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, together with the FBI and the USSS, has announced that two individuals associated with the now-defunct US bitcoin exchangeCoin.mxhave been extradited to the US...
Man claims to have hacked 32 m Twitter handles, demands 10 bitcoins as ransom
Jun 10, 2016 05:42 am UTC| Digital Currency
In a recent online post, LeakedSource, a collaboration of data found online in the form of a search engine, has stated that Twitter credentials are being traded in the tens of millions on the dark web. A user going by...
Banks missing important opportunities presented by bitcoin; says venture capitalist
Jun 09, 2016 13:04 pm UTC| Digital Currency
Fred Wilson, venture capitalist and co-founder of Union Square Ventures, called out leading global banks during The Future of FinTech Conference in New York for not paying attention to the bitcoin. Wilson believes banks...