July 15, 2019 @ 10:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer Bitcoin platform Paxful has sent over a note about the first 6 months of 2019. According to the P2P service, the average monthly volume in USD for the first half of 2019 was $65 Million. This amount is almost double the volume… Read More

July 15, 2019 @ 9:31 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Several professional cryptocurrency traders are claiming that leverage and “whales” are behind Bitcoin’s recent massive price fluctuations and not coveted “new money.” According to Jeff Dorman, chief investment officer at ArcaFunds: “The Bitcoin price ascent from $4k-$10k was based on a confluence of real factors (depreciating… Read More

July 13, 2019 @ 3:35 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Jon Montroll, operator of two online crypto investment schemes, WeExchange Australia and BitFunder, has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for fraud and obstruction of justice. Montroll, 38, of Saginaw, Texas, has also been ordered to pay restitution of $167, 480 USD and will… Read More

July 12, 2019 @ 7:45 am By JD Alois  |  

President Trump has shared his perspective on crypto, and, more specifically, Bitcoin and Facebook’s stablecoin Libra. In a series of tweets yesterday, Trump professed his commitment to a strong US dollar and his disdain for the virtual currencies. Trump said we only have one real… Read More

July 12, 2019 @ 7:14 am By Cali Haan  |  

The Massachusetts Securities Division of the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth Enforcement Section is seeking orders to force a 62-year-old woman in Florida to cease perpetuating a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme operating in at least 6 American states. The agency is also asking that… Read More

July 11, 2019 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

In a case brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), two defendants, Morgan Hunt and Kim Hecroft, were ordered to pay almost $400,000 in penalties and restitution regarding Bitcoin-related fraud. The CFTC cautioned that the repayment of funds to victims may not result in… Read More

July 9, 2019 @ 7:47 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers moved more than $8 million USD in Bitcoins July 8th from digital wallets they’d been sitting in since the Malta-registered crypto trading platform Binance, one of the world’s largest, was hacked for more than 7000 Bitcoins in May, Hard Fork reports. At the time… Read More

July 9, 2019 @ 1:02 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bitcoin proponents are fond of claiming that Bitcoin is THE alternative financial system humanity needs to combat the tyranny and incompetence of central banks, and they will trot out all kinds of dire scenarios and statistics to prove this. The Bitcoin proponents I’ve met have also… Read More

July 5, 2019 @ 10:02 am By Cali Haan  |  

Jessie Powell, the CEO of the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken told TD Ameritraid Monday that real money pouring onto crypto exchanges fuelled Bitcoin’s recent price rise, not controversial synthetic USDs called tethers. Tether printing comes after fiat and not before, said Powell: “Recently,… Read More

July 5, 2019 @ 7:21 am By Cali Haan  |  

Outspoken Bitcoin and cryptocurrency critic and economist Dr Andy Xie, renowned for predicting the 1997-8 Asian currency crisis, told The Korea Times this week that Bitcoin is “a gambling instrument” primarily exploiting Asian investors and that it can never function properly as a currency. “Bitcoin… Read More

July 4, 2019 @ 7:04 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Three parties accused of soliciting Texas investors with fraudulent cryptocurrency offerings have received emergency cease and desist orders as part of Texas’ “second regulatory sweep of cryptocurrency investment offerings.” Like the first sweep, which began in December 2017, the second sweep has been launched, “in… Read More

July 3, 2019 @ 4:29 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bitcoin’s recent diagonal tear to $13K USD has now relented as the currency’s price has settled back down to around $10k, and as the froth clears, information from two polls shows that the general public may be feeling tepid about Facebook’s proposed new cryptocurrency. Some… Read More

July 1, 2019 @ 11:36 am By Cali Haan  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase is tooting it’s sector’s horn in a recent blog post regarding “awareness and adoption trends related to crypto in America, such as which US States have the highest rates of participation and where enthusiasm is highest.” The results are gleaned from,… Read More

July 1, 2019 @ 3:40 am By Cali Haan  |  

A crypto scam featuring the image of the Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, has been circulating on Facebook and may have conned thousands of people, local news outlet The National reports: “The fake news story scattered legitimate information, including factual details… Read More

July 1, 2019 @ 2:34 am By Cali Haan  |  

Crypto users have long pervaded the rumour that the price of Bitcoins tends to increase on Friday and fall on Monday, and recent qualitative research from Bloomberg seems to confirms that observation “(S)urges in weekend activity since the beginning of May account for about 40%… Read More

June 30, 2019 @ 8:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

Data at App Annie, the Apple App Store and Google Play downloads shows that consumer interest in crypto apps and “dApps” (purported “decentralized applications”) has flattened in 2019 even though the price of Bitcoin tripled this quarter, Bloomberg reports. The data is relevant, says the… Read More

June 28, 2019 @ 9:37 am By Cali Haan  |  

Europol has announced that a 14-month-long investigation into a €24 million “typosquatting-based” cryptocurrency theft has netted 6 suspects in the UK and Netherlands. The five men and one woman were arrested “in simultaneous warrants” in Bath Staverton, Amsterdam and Rotterdam yesterday morning. An estimate 4 000… Read More

June 27, 2019 @ 5:27 pm By Cali Haan  |  

American crypto exchange Coinbase went dark Wednesday at the same time as the price of Bitcoins plummeted approximately $1800 dollars in 15 minutes, Coindesk reports. At the company’s Twitter account, Coinbase attributed the outage to cloudflare. [status] Identified: We are currently investigating this issue. We… Read More

June 26, 2019 @ 8:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin is moving, once again. The most popular crypto has earned its wings as a popular speculation vehicle – driven by geopolitical events and perhaps some manipulation. Advocates proclaim its purity and lack of affiliation with any central agency. Detractors denounce it as little more… Read More

June 25, 2019 @ 5:45 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Two computer programmers in Israel, brothers Eli and Assaf Gigi, have been arrested in Jerusalem and accused of operating a sprawling phishing scam that helped them steal 120 000 bitcoins from the Bitfinex trading platform in 2016. According to Israeli crime reporting site Posta, “They… Read More