Sentences with phrase «more than a cryptocurrency»

NEO is more than a cryptocurrency.

Ethereum, on the other hand, is more than a cryptocurrency.

It's mind - blowing at first, but once you understand it, you start to realize that Ethereum is much more than a cryptocurrency; it's a platform for processing and tracking day to day business operations.

Velcro has improved human welfare more than cryptocurrency has.

Not exact matches

The Mt. Gox collapse precipitated a Bitcoin price crash of more than 70 %, shaking investors» confidence in the cryptocurrency for so long that it took Bitcoin more than two years to recover.

Scammers appear to have made off with more than $ 2 million in cryptocurrency after carrying out an apparent fake initial coin offering (ICO), and the individuals linked to the incident may be connected to another recent theft, CNBC has learned.

A rival cryptocurrency to Bitcoin, Ethereum rose as high as about $ 425 Thursday, a gain of more than 16 % in a 24 - hour period.

The more than 100 - year - old company said it used blockchain to create a new platform for digital photography with its own cryptocurrency, called KodakCoin.

Holders of the cryptocurrency Ethereum had spent more than $ 2 million on virtual kittens by Sunday night, bought and sold over a new blockchain - based game called CryptoKitties.

The moment mining becomes more expensive than buying the cryptocurrency, I'll stop.

If you're more like me and less like the authors of Fortune's outstanding blockchain and cryptocurrency site The Ledger, this newfangled stuff is more often than not clear as mud.

Bitcoin's price soared in 2017 — reaching a record high of more than $ 19,000 in December — but saw sharp declines at the start of this new year due to fears of regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrencies.

Although the price of Bitcoin has lost more than half of its value since peaking in December at nearly $ 20,000, the cryptocurrency has still made many investors wealthy.

While Bitcoin surged last year along with other cryptocurrencies, much of that more than 20-fold rise was driven by men.

Many cryptocurrencies have surged more than 1,000 % since the beginning of 2017.

Bitcoin hit a low of $ 4,037 Tuesday - falling by more than $ 300 - as it continued to digest a Chinese clampdown on cryptocurrencies

In the past month, the cryptocurrency is up more than $ 8,000 to trade at $ 14,950.06 on the Coinbase exchange shortly before the beginning of futures trading Sunday.

Singapore is positioning itself as more friendly to cryptocurrencies than other regions.

There are more than a dozen virtual currencies, of which cryptocurrencies are a subset.

Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe said this month that the fascination with cryptocurrencies «feels more like speculative mania than it has to do with their use» as a form of payment.

Australia's central bank chief added his voice to growing criticism of Bitcoin, saying the cryptocurrency that's soared above $ 17,000 is more likely to appeal to criminals than consumers.

For traders used to seeing arbitrage plays vanish within seconds, bitcoin futures» rise back to more than $ 1,300 above the spot price a full day after their debut is another testament to the cryptocurrency's unconventional evolution.

With a market capitalization of more than $ 130 billion, ethereum is the second largest cryptocurrency after bitcoin.

The entire cryptocurrency market has lost more than half its market capitalization since the beginning of this year, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

Power consumption for all cryptocurrencies is on track to use more electricity in 2018 than the whole of Argentina, according to Bloomberg.

Cryptocurrencies» extreme volatility dissuades many people from using them to pay for things, and vendors from allowing payments in Bitcoin — it's too hard to accurately price things in Bitcoin, and when the value is rising there's more to gain from hoarding Bitcoins than from spending them.

The price of Bitcoin — along with those of the majority of the top 50 cryptocurrencies — plummets more than 20 %.

The cryptocurrency has leaped more than 1,600 percent this year, according to CoinDesk's bitcoin price index.

The Bitcoin price sank only slightly to about $ 14,400, while the price of Ethereum, the second most valuable cryptocurrency, rose to more than $ 1,300.

Bitcoin fell again Thursday, bringing its two - day losses to more than 18 percent, after news of increased regulatory scrutiny of cryptocurrency exchanges.

Adam White, general manager of GDAX, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, has said investors shouldn't take on more than they can afford to lose.

More than 500 digital technology startups around the world have raised funds by selling their own cryptocurrencies, or tokens, that sidestep banks or venture capital firms as intermediaries.

Of course I thought cryptocurrency was a neat idea, but I was more than happy to let savvier folks do the pioneering; me, I needed money to pay my rent and student loans.

One of the biggest bitcoin bulls on the street says the cryptocurrency could more than triple this year.

The cryptocurrency is down more than 50 percent year to date and was trading near $ 6,850 at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, according to CoinDesk.

More than 90 million people worldwide use it to communicate with friends or strangers, be it while playing an online game like Fortnite or simply to discuss the latest trend in cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin had a record year in 2017 with the cryptocurrency gaining more than 1,300 percent to almost $ 20,000 in December.

Japanese regulators are inspecting local cryptocurrency exchanges after Coincheck lost the equivalent of more than $ 500 million in digital currency to hackers in January.

The cryptocurrency rose more than 1,300 percent last year, reaching a peak near $ 20,000 in December.

Coinbase, one of the biggest bitcoin marketplaces in the U.S., said Friday that trading was up again after being down for more than two hours amid a price rout in cryptocurrencies.

This means covering stories of the moment such as the boom in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and the «initial coin offering» craze that has enabled firms to raise more than $ 1 billion in 2017 alone.

More than half of Amazon shoppers would embrace an Amazon - created cryptocurrency to shop on the site, according to a LendEDU survey released Wednesday.

Among the top five cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, ripple has fared the worst, down more than 74 percent this year following an epic 35,000 percent increase in 2017, according to CoinMarketCap.

It hit an all - time high of more than $ 800 billion in early January, before falling dramatically as a result of a huge cryptocurrency sell - off.

The more than $ 500 million cryptocurrency heist at a major Japanese exchange last week is unlikely to be the last such hack, according to a Wall Street analyst.

Williams said he executes more than two cryptocurrency trades a day, and uses an online service called CoinTracking to record those transactions for tax purposes.

The more than $ 500 million cryptocurrency Coincheck hack is unlikely to be the last in the space, according to an analyst.

Bitcoin prices recovered above $ 7,000 to start the second quarter Monday, following a week where the cryptocurrency shed more than 25 percent of its value.

[Coinbase's] impenetrability has earned it a reputation as the safest place to buy Bitcoin, helping it attract more than 9 million customers who store at least $ 3 billion in cryptocurrency there, and who have traded $ 25 billion to date on its retail brokerage as well as its institutional exchange, GDAX.

What may also be keeping crypto markets relatively more propped up today than they were following the Mt. Gox hack is the fact that there are more players in the market today, with Coincheck being just one of many exchanges, and NEM being only one of many cryptocurrencies.