Bitcoin (BTC) currently trades above $9200 and is well on its way as far as our bullish scenario is concerned. I’ll start with the best case Bitcoin (BTC) scenario first because that is also the most likely one. As you can see in the chart above, Bitcoin (BTC) is currently following a similar price…

Despite being very much a virtual currency, Bitcoin is going physical. Tangem, which is a start up, operating from Switzerland and Singapore have announced that they are launching a pilot sale of physical notes of Bitcoin. It might take more persuasion for many people to get on board with this idea,…

Venezuela is not letting the negative views of cryptocurrency stand in its way when it comes to the development of cryptocurrencies. Petro in particular, the countries own cryptocurrency has faced a lot of scrutinization along the way, but, despite this, the government are actually making big plans…

India is responsible for approximately ten percent of all Bitcoin transactions, but recently, the country’s central bank has banned all financial institutions from processing any orders made on cryptocurrency exchanges. Despite this ban, the trade volumes and prices have actually increased over the…

From the dawn of the time that cryptocurrencies came into existence, their capability of facilitating anonymous transactions without having to go through central authoritative bodies have allowed criminals to rely on it as a haven. A lot of black markets and illegal activities found themselves being…

Telegram, the ever-growing online messaging app seems to have cut short a recent ICO developed to help assist the company grow their services. The project was called ‘Telegram Open Network’ and the premise of the fundraising was to help ensure Telegrams 200Million customers could continue to use the…

According to Yoav Vilner of CNBC News, there are a few key barriers that are preventing cryptocurrency from becoming mainstream, overcome these and the world will be crypto’s oyster, in theory. In an article last week, Vilner raises the key issues that seem to be deterring people from using…

2014 saw the launch of OB1, or more commonly, OpenBazaar . This was done to start off an online market which leveraged the power of Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency . Since the very beginning of OpenBazaar , the founding members have almost entirely been centered towards Bitcoin but the…

From the very beginning of its existence, blockchain technology has been seen disrupting the world of finance. Blockchain technology saw its invention when an anonymous digital currency system – decentralized and egalitarian – came into existence by the name of Bitcoin. Bitcoin uses blockchain…

NEM (XEM) is known as a dark horse in the crypto community and for good reason. Despite its position as the 14 th largest coin by market cap (which used to be a lot higher), very few investors actually know and understand what this cryptocurrency is all about. The coin owes its rankings to an ever…

Vertcoin’s Twitter account is the latest Twitter account to have fallen into the hands of scammers hijacking verified Twitter accounts in order to conduct fake giveaway scams on Twitter users who are looking to make an easy buck. The first of May saw the verified Twitter account of Vertcoin make a…

A new ‘smart bank note’ has launched in the Megafash Suntec City Store in Singapore this week, which has been designed to encompass a physical Bitcoin note. The notes are currently available at values of 0.01BTC and 0.05BTC and are aimed to radically improve the simplicity and security of dealing…

It’s back again, for the millionth instalment, it’s Crypto Refresh time! Each week we like to trawl back through the news for you, to provide you with a concise version of the entire weeks events. It’s like a TL DR you can truly rely on. Once again, this week has been a rollercoaster in the…

Ethereum Classic (ETC) also known as the “real Ethereum” just recently released its Emerald Wallet which gave a big confidence boost to ETC investors as well as developers who want to build Dapps on the platform. This comes at a time when Ethereum (ETH) is in constant scuffle with the law and most…

Thankfully, the name of Verge really lends its self to anticipation and can really give headlines a good sense of time scale. It seems that we are just five days (or so) from an official Verge block reward halving, according to the official Verge Twitter page. According to a recent Tweet, the 9 th…

The Ripple XRP $1.00 threshold has provided XRP with some trouble over the past few weeks. Each time XRP gets closer, another market reaction seems to take over which in turn pushes the value of Ripple back down, teetering between $0.80 and $0.90. At the moment, we are seeing some very healthy…

Everyone… it’s happening! Whilst it is wrong to let optimism get the better of us, given that cryptocurrencies are more volatile than a ‘game’ of swans (a game of swans refers to a group of swans on the ground or in water, interestingly a wedge is the name for a group of swans in the air), however,…

It seems that this morning, the impressive rise of TRON has finally met its match, given that the value of TRX has sunk for around a full day now. This week, we saw TRON break into the top ten for market capitalisation, sitting comfortably in ninth place before a very erratic IOTA knocked TRON back…

Yesterday we saw Ethereum breach the $700.00 mark for the second time in a month. $700.00 has provided some resistance, Ethereum has thus far really struggled to step over this point. As all hope was looking to be lost, early yesterday we started to see signs that suggested Ethereum was about to…

Exuberant Bitcoin (BTC) rally melted down last week over concerns of Mt. Gox’s movement of a large number of Bitcoin (BTC) from its wallet to an unknown wallet. Many believe that the recent correction took place due to Mt. Gox’s dumping of a large number of Bitcoin (BTC) on the open markets. While…

We are moving rapidly towards the next epoch of IOTA, today the IOTA Foundation is excited and proud to start the official unveiling of Qubic. https://t.co/U87nKaZWnI #IOTA #Qubic — IOTA (@iotatoken) May 3, 2018 It seems that this week, IOTA have made endless tracks towards the next phase of their…

Litecoin (LTC) is currently the seventh largest coin by market cap thanks to a massive adoption after Coinbase listed the coin in 2017. The price shot up from close to $50 and reached a high of $366 in December before crashing down to $108 with the rest of the market. The coin continues to be a…

The good run of IOTA needs to be explored. We are seeing some really big things happening within the value of this currency and of course, with the team behind it at the IOTA Foundation, who as we know have carried out the successful launch of the new IOTA Ecosystem. Firstly, MOBI, or the Mobility…

A day in the life of Bitcoin at the moment is wrapped in uncertainty. Granted, the value of Bitcoin seems to have plateaued with no real changes taking place over the past few days. Even so though, the element of calm possessed by Bitcoin at the moment, shouldn’t be taken for granted. As with all…

This afternoon we are seeing some really bold movements from Ontology and ONT. Before we begin, let me trace Ontology back a few steps, so we can start to appreciate just how impressive the latest ONT run is. On the 25 th of April, ONT was valued at around $4.30, after some positive movements after…

At the end of March 2018, we saw Reddit remove the option to pay for their gold membership package in Bitcoin, in a move that surprised many people, ourselves included. As a forum for the underground, it seemed very counter intuitive for Reddit to stop accepting Bitcoin, they already had the…

The news this week has been dominated by TRON, the new MVP of the cryptocurrency market. For our UK based friends, MVP stands for Most Valuable Player, and no, I’m not referring to TRON as the most valuable currency, I’m just stating that if TRON were a sports-person, TRON would probably win man of…

Charlie Lee, the controversial figure behind the Litecoin movement does love to spark debate. His fans adore him, and his critics simply adore to call him out. His recent decision to sell off all his Litecoin assets had many people quite perplexed. If somebody believes in their product and wants…

#TRON #TRX will be listed on @CoinTigerEX and TRX/BITCNY, TRX/BTC, TRX/ETH will be available on 16:00, May 4th (UTC+8) click poster to know more. @Tronfoundation pic.twitter.com/enE1iRaDFE — Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) May 2, 2018 More good news for TRON this week as TRX gains another exchange…

The run of Ethereum over the past couple of days has been somewhat uncertain. Overall, the value of Ethereum has remained steadily between $550.00 and $650.00 over the past few weeks, with some notable rises above $700.00 accounted for at the end of April. Generally, however, it did look as if…

All things seem to be going right for Bitcoin Cash at the moment. The past month has seen the value of the currency rise by well over 100% but not only that, the rise has not yet been stunted by any significant declines, instead, Bitcoin Cash has maintained a steady balance, way above the $1,000.00…

One of the most incredible international news pieces this week highlights the start of the end of the sixty five-year long Korean war. In light of escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, the respective leaders of the North and South have come together in a display of incredible solidarity that…

Lisk (LSK) is the popular fork of a crypto project known as Crypti. The ambitious cofounder of Lisk, Max Koredk now leads the forked version with a vision to create a userfriendly blockchain for smart contracts and Dapp development.Lisk (LSK) came into existence in 2016, the same year Microsoft…

#BankDhofar First Bank in Oman to Join RippleNet for Instant Blockchain Payments, this step will enable BankDhofar to provide instant, frictionless and secure cross border money transfers within seconds, with end-to-end visibility over the journey of the payment. pic.twitter.com/4j6dA9bRIv —…

Ethereum (ETH) seems to be under a lot of heat from regulatory bodies over its status as a “noncompliant security”. While this debate may not have much weight in the case of other cryptocurrencies , it holds a lot of significance in the case of Ethereum (ETH) owing to a sale of 60 million ether…

Startling news this afternoon comes from CNBC in a report titled: “ Cryptocurrencies heading towards 90 percent correction, investment bank warns” You can see the full report for yourself, here-…

Last week saw Coin Talk co-host, Aaron Lammer fall victim to a malicious ransom-style attack that saw his website experience a lock down, for the ransom of 0.025BTC, a ransom of around $230.00. In an unlikely turn of events however, Lammer seemed to outsmart the thief, giving the developers of the…

We have seen plenty of reports over the past month pointing towards a rise in cryptocurrency activity from Barclays bank. Such activity included carrying out epidemic-modelling on the spread of Bitcoin and rumours of a Barclays based cryptocurrency research branch, with the overall intention of…

The Ecosystem is ready to be built by the community. The website is live https://t.co/uPXmZBfoJt #IOTA — IOTA (@iotatoken) May 1, 2018 The brand new, eagerly anticipated IOTA Ecosystem has finally been launched, it’s implications for the IOTA network and the IOTA currency are pretty clear as the…