October 12, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, CoinText.io, a wallet to transact cryptocurrency using SMS messages, introduced its new “buy command” feature that will allow users to spend Bitcoin Cash (BCH) at any retailer that uses BitPay to process bitcoin payments. CoinText reported that its users can now instantly send… Read More

October 11, 2018 @ 1:50 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif has announced that its acquisition by “investment support services” firm FISCO has been finalized and says it will compensate users affected by a $60 million dollar hack that occurred September 14th: “On 10 October, the Company concluded the business of our virtual currency… Read More

September 23, 2018 @ 2:34 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Baltic Honey Badger Conference of 2018, held this year in Riga, Latvia, wrapped up today with a panel featuring Adam Back, the CEO of Blockstream, Giacomo Zucco, CEO at BHB Network; Tone Vays, a former Wall Street risk analyst and Bitcoin advocate; and Eric Lombrozo,… Read More

September 16, 2018 @ 8:45 pm By Steven McClurg and Katie Talati  |  

Bitcoin Cash Basics Bitcoin Cash was born in August 2017 as the result of a hard fork from the Bitcoin network. Discussions began in early 2017 among the Bitcoin community to rollout the SegWit update which would allow scaling of the blockchain. However, a subset… Read More

July 23, 2018 @ 3:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Former Wall Street risk analyst, avid Bitcoiner and ICO-detractor Tone Vays telecast his compelling “Inevitable ICO Bubble” talk to a crowd at the Seattle Bitcoin Meet Up last Thursday, during which he extended an olive branch to the creators of the contentious Bitcoin ‘fork,’ Bitcoin… Read More

July 12, 2018 @ 3:35 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A hacker going by the name of ‘Bitpico’ on Twitter claims that a ‘stress test’ he or she conducted on the Bitcoin Cash cryptocurrency network shows that 98% of Bitcoin Cash’s node are located on the same rack server. https://twitter.com/bitPico/status/1016228867948851200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1016228867948851200&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitcoinist.com%2Fbitcoin-cash-test-node-centralization%2F A rack server is a… Read More

June 22, 2018 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

This week, the Federal Reserve of St. Louis has added multiple cryptocurrencies to their data tracking service FRED. FRED has added four series on the prices of different cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin (but no Ripple), with the data is coming from Coinbase. All of the information is being updated… Read More

May 24, 2018 @ 7:22 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Earlier this week Digital challenger bank Revolut asked customers to help name its new and exclusive metal card. Now the maverick platform has moved again from metal to crypto: Revolut customers can buy, hold and sell two more cryptocurrencies instantly within the app. In December last year,… Read More

May 8, 2018 @ 11:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A proposed lawsuit by (standard) Bitcoin users against the Bitcoin Cash-controlled website Bitcoin.com and it’s CEO Roger Ver has been dropped. Ver, one of the most dedicated and high profile early adopters of Bitcoin, and several partners (including Jihan Wu, owner of the world’s largest… Read More

April 28, 2018 @ 2:33 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Devoted “classic” Bitcoin network advocates claim they will soon be testing their brand confusion grievance against Roger Ver and Bitcoin Cash in court. Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) have been engaged in a highly contentious rivalry ever since Roger Ver and associates “forked” (or… Read More

December 20, 2017 @ 4:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase believes it may have had some of its employees jump the gun prior to the announcement it would add Bitcoin Cash to the cryptocurrencies it managed. In a blog post, Brian Armstrong Coinbase CEO and co-founder, stated; “It appears the price of Bitcoin Cash… Read More