According to separate research published
this month by cryptocurrency lending platform Lendingblock, more than half of people believe cryptocurrency will be widely accepted in shops by 2025.
Not exact matches
In recent
months, there has been a huge push to attract non-crypto-nerds to the space for the first time — led
by companies that didn't traditionally deal with
cryptocurrencies.
«I took about a
month to research it, look back in the code, look back in the white paper,» referencing the bitcoin outline authored
by the
cryptocurrency's mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Just over a
month ago Barclays, Credit Suisse, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, HSBC, MUFG, and State Street joined UBS and BNY Mellon in a project to launch a
cryptocurrency — the «utility settlement coin» — set for a limited back - end run
by 2018.
Even before being hit with a federal securities fraud lawsuit
by the SEC and independent perjury charges
by the DOJ last
month, the founder of a now - defunct
cryptocurrency exchange had left a trail of lawsuits.
It temporarily became the second - largest
cryptocurrency by market value last
month, usurping ethereum, after a huge rally.
The Coinbase Index Fund, which requires a minimum investment of $ 10,000 and weights its
cryptocurrency holdings proportionately
by their market caps, would have returned about 995 % over the past 12
months, an increase of nearly 11-fold.
News of the Satori
cryptocurrency - stealing variant comes less than a
month after the code for a Huawei router exploit, which was used
by the Satori botnet, was posted online.
At a working group convened
by the FSA earlier this
month, one attendee reportedly recommended that it be «seriously discussed as to whether any registered
cryptocurrency exchange should be allowed to use such currencies.»
A recent report
by fellow cyber-security firm Kaspersky found that
cryptocurrency mining malware also infected over 1.65 million machines running Kaspersky solutions in the first eight
months of the year.
For all of 2017 and the first two
months of 2018 at the time of writing, Crunchbase data has captured a total of 527 venture capital rounds and ICOs raised
by companies in its bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain,
cryptocurrency and virtual currency categories.
One in five financial institutions is considering trading
cryptocurrencies within the next 12
months, a survey published
by Thomson Reuters on Tuesday found.
Telemetry data collected
by Kaspersky Lab shows that in the first nine
months of 2017, malware that mines for various types of
cryptocurrencies has infected more than 1.65 million endpoints.
According to statistics released
by Symantec today, the second most widespread Mac malware today is a
cryptocurrency miner called DevilRobber, which saw a huge spike in activity last
month.
The
cryptocurrency group was created
by Consolidated in September 2017, and Joseph Kim joined the unit sometime during that
month.
Last
month, Russia said it would move to regulate
cryptocurrency by bringing mining and exchange under the purview of the central government.
With Bitcoin being hampered
by fees and longer waiting times for transactions in recent
months, many services online that previously offered BTC payments have introduced various other
cryptocurrency payment options.
Over the
months since its creation, Bitcoin Cash has managed to garner a lot of support and investment - as it is currently the fourth largest
cryptocurrency by market cap.
Cryptocurrencies have taken the world
by storm over the past 15
months.
Over the last several
months, even including a sharp drop and rebound in the stock market earlier this
month, bitcoin (BTC - USD) and the
cryptocurrency boom have been
by far the biggest topic of discussion in financial markets.
The growth in the use of the
cryptocurrency has been phenomenal, with 2015 seeing the number of bitcoin transactions per day growing
by 150 percent, and the total number of bitcoins in circulation increasing
by a solid 10 percent across the 12
months.
Earlier this
month, consumer research group, Valuepenguin, published a report claiming that the number of consumer complaints involving
cryptocurrency company filed with the U.S Consumer Financial Protection Bureau increase
by 669 percent following the post-December 2017 crash in the
cryptocurrency markets.
While things were certainly slowing down in the
cryptocurrency world, the last few
months slipped
by quickly for me and now I find myself looking towards the summer!
One in three millennials will be invested in a
cryptocurrency by the end of next year, possibly enticed
by the meteoric rise in the value of bitcoin over recent
months, according to new research.
A
month later, the company reported that it had hired two Canadian banks to find blockchain - connected deals, which was followed
by a notice of an agreement to acquire Backbone Hosting Solutions, which operates a
cryptocurrency mining server farm in Canada under the trade name Bitfarms.
More than half of organizations around the world were struck
by threat actors using
cryptocurrency mining tools to steal corporate computing resources last
month, a trend that will likely continue in 2018, according to recent research.
According to a survey conducted
by Thomson Reuters earlier this week, one in five financial institutions have plans to actively participate in the
cryptocurrency market within the next 12
months.
As the fifth - largest
cryptocurrency by value, litecoin has attracted a lot of attention over the past nine
months.
Most recently the
cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which has been rapidly gaining popularity in recent
months, was the latest exchange to be targeted
by hackers.
Las Vegas - based
cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex has announced that it will delist 82 altcoins with poor liquidity on its platform
by the end of the
month.
Whether that momentum, largely driven
by a frenzy in
cryptocurrency, can serve as a catalyst or if it is just a blip that will revert over the next few
months, there is clearly a case for volatility to stick around with many more investors jumping into the markets.
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by cryptocurrencies in the last few
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Bitcoin's popularity among
cryptocurrency investors has continued to strengthen, as indicated
by the rise in its market dominance over the last 3
months (up 10 %); an overall good quarter for...
The last two
months in India has seen Bitcoin trading go down
by about 90 percent, with most of the repercussions being felt
by cryptocurrency exchanges in the country.
Last
month authorities ordered banks to stop issuing the so called «virtual accounts» used
by cryptocurrency exchanges to manage their clients» money.
An exclusive coverage released
by Asia Business revealed that Kakao's fintech application KakaoPay, which registered 3 million users within its debut
month, will integrate
cryptocurrencies into its local application to allow users to send and receive
cryptocurrencies.
Ethereum (ETH) beat Bitcoin (BTC) as the most searched - for
cryptocurrency in India over the last 5
months, according to a study conducted
by Jana.
Scott Weiss, a 48 - year - old lawyer who bought bitcoin at its peak of $ 19,000 in December last year, claims he is unfazed
by the recent turbulence the
cryptocurrency faced in the last two
months.
Bitcoin and other virtual currencies have nearly halved in value since last
month, prompting a popular
cryptocurrency forum to offer suicide prevention support to any members who may have been impacted financially
by the price crash.
The
cryptocurrency mine launched
by Japanese IT firm GMO Internet has generated more than $ 3 million in revenue over the past three
months.
Bitcoin prices peaked at more than $ 19,600 last
month, but have nearly halved in value since, damped
by fears that regulators could clamp down on the
cryptocurrency in a bid to curb speculation.
The project made headlines last
month after Seagal, best known for his action film roles in the 1990s, publicly endorsed the
cryptocurrency offering through his official Twitter account - a notable development given the string of endorsements seen last year and the subsequent warning
by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding celebrity involvement in token sales.
By end of
month the
cryptocurrency reached $ 4900 mark, which is almost 50 % over the price just 1
month ago.
Chip maker AMD has seen its sales buoyed in recent
months by big demand for graphics cards
by cryptocurrency miners.
After, Google, Twitter, and Facebook individually decided to put a ban on the ICO and crypto based ads, now the baton has been taken over
by the e-mail distribution company MailChimp told that it would be banning marketing campaigns for
cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings from next
month.
Although the market is slowly recovering from a congested network, record highs have been much harder to come
by in recent
months than other
cryptocurrencies.
Bitcoin fell
by 50 percent in the first three
months of 2018 — a drop that marks the
cryptocurrency's worst Q1 performance on record.
It was decided
by Verge to be announcing about a major partnership 16th of this
month, and this was a
cryptocurrency that was starting to go on a runner up, on their price value.The attack caused a price drop of around 25 - 30 % in last 24 - 36 hours.
A few
months back, Ghanaian citizens were cautioned against transactions made in
cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin
by the Bank of Ghana.
The new system has diminished the sense of anonymity previously associated with
cryptocurrency, and a new system which requires users to use their real - life identities is set to be implemented
by the end of this
month.