Sentences with phrase «over bitcoin for»

«So the reason why people use Litecoin over Bitcoin for everyday purchase is because the transactions fees are lower and it's also a faster payment turnover.»

There are probably other factors that led to my brother's suicide, but he had been beating himself up over Bitcoin for the past several years to the point where he seemed constantly depressed over it and gradually became a shadow of his former happy self.

Not exact matches

While many cryptocurrencies have been in bear market territory since a correction that began in late December, this week has been especially bloody for investors, with the Bitcoin and Ethereum prices down nearly 40 % in the past two days, and Ripple shedding nearly half its value over the same period.

That abrupt reversal was magnified many times over in a bitcoin market that doesn't have anything like the same liquidity or transparency as the market for official currencies.

China accounts for over 90 % of reported bitcoin trades and around 70 % of bitcoin «mining» (the production of new bitcoins through the building of blockchain that makes up the currency's infrastructure).

Bitcoin launches ATMS, quantifying innovation, Marissa Mayer's no telecommuting policy gets vindicated, Latinas take over, marketers can't decide if Facebook ads work, Steve Blank gets fired, Twitpics come out... This week's notable news and tantalizing tidbits for entrepreneurs:

Mark Karpelès, the CEO who presided over Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox until it went bankrupt in 2014, has had a hard time finding work for the last four years.

It would be over two and a half years before Bitcoin would regain its previous high — long enough that many Mt. Gox victims didn't even bother filing a claim for what they considered an insignificant sum.

Over the last several days, we've examined all of the relevant issues and have decided to work on adding support for bitcoin cash for Coinbase customers.

Over the course of 2017, bitcoin saw more than a 1,000 % gain in price, creating some pretty significant capital gains for some investors.

It's been record after record for Bitcoin, which jumped over $ 2,000 for the first time last week.

While today there may be a lot of buzz about Bitcoin and most businesses are well versed in accepting electronic and mobile payments, customers over the course of history have used a lot of different methods to pay for goods and services.

Over the past five months, Camp has been sketching out plans for a brand new cryptocurrency that aims to fix technical and other challenges plaguing existing projects, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

The Verge report offers a good run - down of the technical specifics but, for present purposes, they can be summed up like this: the bitcoin community failed to agree on a system upgrade, which means the ledger's infrastructure faces a growing backlog, and it now takes over 40 minutes to confirm a transaction.

Meanwhile, bitcoin still has defenders such as Jeremy Allaire, a successful entrepreneur who raised over $ 60 million for his startup, Circle, a money transfer service for consumers using bitcoin behind the scenes.

While Bitcoin adherents cite low fees as an advantage of the cryptocurrency over traditional finance networks, the median fee for a transaction reached $ 34 in late December.

The price on Coinbase, which accounts for a third of bitcoin trading value, is often at a premium over other exchanges.

As of mid-morning Eastern Time, the price of bitcoin had soared over 10 percent in the last 24 hours and crossed above the $ 4,000 mark for the first time in nearly a week.

Although the lack of jurisdiction over Bitcoin and its links to money laundering and illicit marketplaces have raised more than a few eyebrows, the currency offers a simple way for legitimate businesses such as small retailers and professional service providers to accept payments for international sales without facing onerous credit card fees or exchange - rate surcharges.

The hire is another coup for Coinbase, which has rapidly been building out its executive team as the more than 5 - year - old startup, now worth over $ 1 billion, attempts to fortify its reputation as one of few professional financial institutions catering to Bitcoin investors.

For him, excitement over value fluctuations in the bitcoin currency is missing the point: «It's not a threat as people sit there and ponder whether bitcoin is a bubble or not.

The Winklevoss twins, known for battling Mark Zuckerberg in court over who owned the idea behind Facebook, are leading the charge in bringing digital currency bitcoin to the mainstream.

Bitcoin moved by over 10 % on Tuesday alone, for example.

Last quarter was the best quarter for blockchain and bitcoin VC funding on record, more than doubling the amount raised in the first quarter and up 89 % year over year, according to CBInsights.

Bitcoin's price spiked over $ 8,000 on Friday, and some experts cite Tax Day as the reason for the cryptocurrency's two - week high.

Indeed, Bitcoin has made investors far richer than gold has recently, with the cryptocurrency returning 1,116 % over the past 12 months, compared to less than 12 % for gold.

The market for cryptocurrencies has reached new heights in 2017, with bitcoin appreciating over $ 1,500 % and gaining its own futures market.

Bitcoin has exploded in popularity in China over the last 3 years and now accounts for an estimated 99 % of all trade in the cryptocurrency.

He is also now the spokesperson for COBINHOOD, a cryptocurrency service that provides a wallet to store Bitcoin, Ethereum and over 40 alternative coins.

At the beginning of the year, one bitcoin was going for just over $ 1,300.

Bitcoin just crossed the $ 3,500 mark for the first time and is up 493.38 % over the last year.

The cryptocurrency community appears divided over whether splits are good for the future of bitcoin.

The remaining 44 % of companies that raised funding over the period spanned a diverse set of insurance markets, and included auto insurance comparison engines, insured storage services for bitcoin, and crop insurance tools.

An October survey by Harris Poll for Blockchain Capital found that 27 percent of American millennials prefer $ 1,000 worth of bitcoin to stocks, versus just 5 percent for those over age 65.

Known as the Winklevoss twins in the new tech industry, and famous both for being among the largest (if not the largest) holders of bitcoin (and because of their legendary dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook) the two men want to create a new exchange in compliance with financial laws.

With the dramatic rise (and fall) in Bitcoin prices over the past several months, Allison Nathan, senior strategist for Goldman Sachs Research, takes a look at the market value of cryptocurrencies.

With a current price topping over $ 1000 USD on some exchanges, this could be a hug year for Bitcoin merchants.

For the Reddit team, getting some of the over 16,000 subscribers to r / Bitcoin could be a nice little bump in revenue.

Now, a pair of investigators may have discovered a previously unknown forum account belonging to Ulbricht, one he apparently used to asked for help finding over 40,000 bitcoins that had disappeared from his wallet's balance, and paid others hundreds of bitcoins for help on technical issues.

With the threat of ransomware hanging over every company's head, does it make sense for companies to stockpile a few bitcoins in the event of a ransomware attack?

Le Maire's call for G20 nations to join together in comprehensive talks over bitcoin, and cryptocurrency more broadly, echoed recent sentiments from Joachim Wuermeling, a board member at Bundesbank in Germany, who had previously stated, «Effective regulation of virtual currencies would therefore only be achievable through the greatest possible international cooperation, because the regulatory power of nation states is obviously limited.»

He turned responsibility for the Bitcoin software over to another developer, Gavin Andresen, who has been the lead Bitcoin developer ever since.

The Enforcement Division began preparation for its investigative sweep in Texas on December 16, 2017, when the price of bitcoin was valued at over $ 19,000.

The Bitcoin Gold team detected the breach over the weekend when they noticed that the SHA - 256 checksum for the Windows installer did not match the original SHA - 256 checksum for the file they initially hosted on the GitHub repo.

Lets work through the numbers real quick to get a valuation for the current Bitcoin market capitalization, and for the market capitalization for new Bitcoins produced over the next year (assuming a constant price).

The growing enthusiasm for bitcoin has raised questions over whether its value has gotten too frothy.

For example, over the years various people have suggested or wondered (sometimes as a joke) if the NSA actually created Bitcoin in an effort to trap criminals.

Similarly we can find a simplified expected value for Bitcoin produced over the next year.

Bitcoin breached the $ 4600 level for a new all - time high overnight, carrying the crypto segment's value to over $ 165 billion for the first time.

It's time for the ecosystem to answer a fundamental question that has been looming over our heads since bitcoin's first exchange rate was calculated in 2009 — does cryptocurrency need decentralized exchanges?