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German Authorities Sold $14 Million in Seized Cryptos Over Price Fears
May 29, 2018 at 10:00 | Wolfie Zhao
Prosecutors in Germany have made an emergency sale of cryptocurrencies seized in two investigations due to concerns over price volatility.
Bitcoin Price Faces Last Major Support Level Before $5K
May 29, 2018 at 09:00 | Omkar Godbole
Bitcoin is down again and looks set to test another key support level at $6,900, the technical charts indicate.
Bitcoin Bears In Charge But Indecision Could Spur Rally
May 28, 2018 at 10:25 | Omkar Godbole
While the odds are still stacked in favor of bitcoin's bears, marketplace exhaustion may have provided a chance for a brief rally.
IHS Markit Has A Plan to Tokenize A $1 Trillion Loan Market
May 28, 2018 at 04:00 | Ian Allison
IHS Markit is developing a blockchain-based system to handle cash payments in syndicated loans – and eventually, in a wider range of transactions.
Just One Top Crypto Bucked This Week's Market Downturn
May 25, 2018 at 15:15 | Omkar Godbole
Shadowing the losses in bitcoin, the top-25 cryptocurrencies have all fallen over the last seven days – all bar one, that is.
Bitcoin Faces Close Below Long-Term Support In First Since 2015
May 25, 2018 at 10:00 | Omkar Godbole
If bitcoin closes the week below the 50-week moving average it will increase the likelihood of a sell-off to $6,000
Revolut App Adds XRP, Bitcoin Cash to Crypto Options
May 24, 2018 at 14:35 | Daniel Palmer
Mobile banking app Revolut now lets users buy, sell and hold Ripple's XRP and bitcoin cash, in addition to bitcoin, litecoin and ether.
Bitcoin Faces Drop to $7K as Bull Defense Crumbles
May 24, 2018 at 09:30 | Omkar Godbole
Bitcoin looks set to test $7,000 in the next 24 hours, courtesy of a bear flag breakdown on the technical charts.
Coinbase Is Rebranding Its Crypto Exchange Service
May 23, 2018 at 20:26 | Nikhilesh De
Coinbase announced Wednesday it was rebranding its GDAX platform as Coinbase Pro. Additionally, the company has acquired Paradex, a relay platform.
Bitcoin Price Faces Bear Indicator Not Seen Since 2014
May 23, 2018 at 09:00 | Omkar Godbole
Following bitcoin's recent losses, a key long-term trend indicator is looking increasingly bearish.
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Crypto Payroll Processor Bitwage Launches ICO Advisory Firm
May 29, 2018 at 13:00 | Nikhilesh De
Bitcoin payroll firm Bitwage has launched an advisory company aimed to make it easier for companies to launch token sales.
German Authorities Sold $14 Million in Seized Cryptos Over Price Fears
May 29, 2018 at 10:00 | Wolfie Zhao
Prosecutors in Germany have made an emergency sale of cryptocurrencies seized in two investigations due to concerns over price volatility.
Bitcoin Price Faces Last Major Support Level Before $5K
May 29, 2018 at 09:00 | Omkar Godbole
Bitcoin is down again and looks set to test another key support level at $6,900, the technical charts indicate.
Bitcoin Bears In Charge But Indecision Could Spur Rally
May 28, 2018 at 10:25 | Omkar Godbole
While the odds are still stacked in favor of bitcoin's bears, marketplace exhaustion may have provided a chance for a brief rally.
IHS Markit Has A Plan to Tokenize A $1 Trillion Loan Market
May 28, 2018 at 04:00 | Ian Allison
IHS Markit is developing a blockchain-based system to handle cash payments in syndicated loans – and eventually, in a wider range of transactions.
Just One Top Crypto Bucked This Week's Market Downturn
May 25, 2018 at 15:15 | Omkar Godbole
Shadowing the losses in bitcoin, the top-25 cryptocurrencies have all fallen over the last seven days – all bar one, that is.
Bitcoin Faces Close Below Long-Term Support In First Since 2015
May 25, 2018 at 10:00 | Omkar Godbole
If bitcoin closes the week below the 50-week moving average it will increase the likelihood of a sell-off to $6,000
Pink Taxis, Red Flags: A Deep Dive Into a Sketchy ICO
May 25, 2018 at 08:00 | David Floyd
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The Record-Breaking $152 Million Battle Over Blockchain Betting Tool Augur
May 25, 2018 at 00:40 | Marc Hochstein and Ada Hui
An investor and three founders are being sued in a landmark cryptocurrency case centered on the ethereum decentralized application Augur.
Revolut App Adds XRP, Bitcoin Cash to Crypto Options
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Crypto Payroll Processor Bitwage Launches ICO Advisory Firm
May 29, 2018 at 13:00 | Nikhilesh De
Bitcoin payroll firm Bitwage has launched an advisory company aimed to make it easier for companies to launch token sales.
German Authorities Sold $14 Million in Seized Cryptos Over Price Fears
May 29, 2018 at 10:00 | Wolfie Zhao
Prosecutors in Germany have made an emergency sale of cryptocurrencies seized in two investigations due to concerns over price volatility.
Bitcoin Price Faces Last Major Support Level Before $5K
May 29, 2018 at 09:00 | Omkar Godbole
Bitcoin is down again and looks set to test another key support level at $6,900, the technical charts indicate.
Bitcoin Bears In Charge But Indecision Could Spur Rally
May 28, 2018 at 10:25 | Omkar Godbole
While the odds are still stacked in favor of bitcoin's bears, marketplace exhaustion may have provided a chance for a brief rally.
IHS Markit Has A Plan to Tokenize A $1 Trillion Loan Market
May 28, 2018 at 04:00 | Ian Allison
IHS Markit is developing a blockchain-based system to handle cash payments in syndicated loans – and eventually, in a wider range of transactions.
Just One Top Crypto Bucked This Week's Market Downturn
May 25, 2018 at 15:15 | Omkar Godbole
Shadowing the losses in bitcoin, the top-25 cryptocurrencies have all fallen over the last seven days – all bar one, that is.
Bitcoin Faces Close Below Long-Term Support In First Since 2015
May 25, 2018 at 10:00 | Omkar Godbole
If bitcoin closes the week below the 50-week moving average it will increase the likelihood of a sell-off to $6,000
Pink Taxis, Red Flags: A Deep Dive Into a Sketchy ICO
May 25, 2018 at 08:00 | David Floyd
No team, plagiarized white paper, McAfee pump, promises of bitcoin-like returns, brand hijacking, a fake blog. Welcome to ICO-land.
The Record-Breaking $152 Million Battle Over Blockchain Betting Tool Augur
May 25, 2018 at 00:40 | Marc Hochstein and Ada Hui
An investor and three founders are being sued in a landmark cryptocurrency case centered on the ethereum decentralized application Augur.
Revolut App Adds XRP, Bitcoin Cash to Crypto Options
May 24, 2018 at 14:35 | Daniel Palmer
Mobile banking app Revolut now lets users buy, sell and hold Ripple's XRP and bitcoin cash, in addition to bitcoin, litecoin and ether.
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Here's How a Bitcoin Crash Could Bring Down the Entire Stock Market
Conventional wisdom says that even if the Bitcoin bubble pops, as it’s been threatening to lately, the damage won’t spill over into the broad stock market.
That’s because in dollar terms, the cryptocurrency craze remains tiny compared to, say, the dotcom boom, which led the broader market to a painful crash in 2000.
Internet stocks in the late 1990s represented a substantial portion of what was then (and is again) the largest sector of the economy: tech. By comparison, the sum total value of all Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies circulating in the world now is smaller than the current market capitalization of just one company: Microsoft.
“For a potentially destructive bubble to form, cryptocurrencies need to be far more adopted and become a much larger share of household assets or the assets of leveraged investors like banks or some hedge funds,” says Jeffrey Kleintop, chief global investment strategist at Charles Schwab.
Still, there are three plausible ways the bursting of the Bitcoin bubble could gore the aging bull market in stocks, which is about to turn 9 years old in March.
Scenario #1: The Bitcoin bubble bursts investor confidence.
“The real thing that Bitcoin’s rise represents is the growing sense of confidence in this recovery,” says Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at The Leuthold Group, an asset management firm based in Minneapolis.
Paulsen points out that Bitcoin prices didn’t really start to rise dramatically until the end of the third quarter of 2017, when it became clear that the economy was accelerating.
In that sense, Bitcoin has a tangible connection to stocks. The same investor confidence that’s been fueling risk-taking and speculation in the global equity markets has also been behind the cryptocurrency rise that accelerated in the fourth quarter of last year.
So while a collapse in cryptocurrency prices won’t necessarily have an economic impact on equities the way the Internet bubble did, it could have a domino effect on investor psychology.
“If there’s a collapse in Bitcoin, the direct financial impact won’t be overwhelming, but it could set off a lot of fear and very radically alter people’s mindset—which in turn could be damaging for stocks,” Paulsen says.
And if cryptocurrencies “really crashed and burned, that could really shake people and be enough to create a real market impact,” he adds.
Scenario #2: Companies jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon just before a crash.
In the late 1990s, investors started noticing something: All a company would have to do was to put a dotcom at the end of its name or include a sentence in a press release about launching an e-commerce site, and the stock would jump.
Well, something similar is happening with cryptocurrencies today, and that’s pulling more and more companies into this frenzy—making its impact on the economy much larger than the market value of cryptocurrencies would suggest.
The imaging company Eastman Kodak recently hitched its struggling wagon to cryptocurrencies—initially by launching its own virtual currency, KodakCoin, which can be used by photographers to securely sell the rights to their photo and receive payments using blockchain technology.
That move sent Kodak stock, which lost 80% of its value in 2017, soaring. Since the announcement, on Jan. 9, Kodak shares have more than tripled in value.
Kodak then doubled down on crypto. According to news reports out of the CES consumer technology show, Kodak plans to partner with a company that will lease Kodak KashMiner computers to mine for Bitcoin.
And Kodak is hardly alone. In recent months, KFC Canada introduced a special “Bitcoin Bucket”—which includes 10 chicken tenders, fries, a medium side dish, gravy, and dips—that can only be purchased using the virtual currency.
And after restaurant operator Chanticleer, which operates a number of Hooters franchises, announced at the start of the year that it was launching a rewards program using cryptocurrencies, its stock—which had sunk 96% between the start of 2012 and the end of 2017—rebounded 20%.
Some companies aren’t just dabbling in cryptos. They are changing their entire business models.
Late last year, the biotech equipment maker Bioptix changed its name to Riot Blockchain and its business plan to investing in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Within weeks, the stock soared 650%.
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The same thing happened with Long Island Iced Tea, a little-known beverage maker that changed its name to Long Blockchain and its business model to investing in blockchain technology. The stock soared more than 200% shortly after the news.
It all sounds promising. But as many market watchers point out, Pets.com and Webvan.com were considered winning bets in the late 1990s—until the bubble burst and the fog lifted.
Scenario #3: A cryptocurrency crash has a Wile E. Coyote effect.
Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago, recently told MONEY that stocks sometimes “act like a cartoon character who’s run off a cliff. Once they realize there’s nothing support them, they start to drop.”
In other words, investors are often willing to keep going in one direction, even if it seems risky or irrational, until they’re jarred. But when they are scared or shaken enough—for instance, by a financial collapse, like in the global financial panic in 2007—they start looking down at their feet and notice how dangerous their strategy really is.
Is a crash in Bitcoin a big enough to get investors’ attention?
It’s too soon to tell, but as Paulsen points out: “You can’t hardly go anywhere in the financial world or financial press without seeing a mention of Bitcoin.”
Bitcoin Market Analysis, Market Size, Application Analysis, Regional Outlook, Competitive Strategies And Forecasts, 2014 To 2020
Bitcoin is a form of digital currency which allows performing transactions without the need for a central bank. Bitcoins can be used to purchase goods and services from vendors who accept them as a mode of payment. Bitcoins may be transacted with other bitcoins with the help of peer-to-peer technology carried out by the network. Since they are open source, their design and control is open for all. Traditional currencies are managed by the central bank, while bitcoins are not regulated by any authority; instead, they are maintained by an online community. Since bitcoin is not a country-specific currency, international payments can be carried out more economically and efficiently. Bitcoins can be transferred among people using mobile apps on smartphones or computers. Bitcoins are stored in a digital wallet that may exist on cloud or physical storage of the user.
The unregulated nature of bitcoins has been instrumental in proliferating demand in the market. Increasing spread of wireless communication and rising number of online transaction activities could drive the market over the coming years. However, security threats and rising criminal activity may pose a restraint for the market’s growth. Government regulations could serve a challenge for the growth of the market. For example, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a U.S. Government agency, laid down regulations to tax all virtual currencies including bitcoins as a property rather than as currency. Thus users will have to maintain a record of all bitcoin purchases made over the period of one year. This would negatively impact the market due to the increased accounting complexity.
Small businesses may use bitcoins as there are no credit card fees. People may also buy bitcoins as an investment. Bitcoins are available in the marketplace for people to buy and sell using different currencies. Bitcoins can be used to purchase merchandise anonymously. Transactions are recorded in a public log wherein names of buyers and sellers are not disclosed. Thus, users can buy or sell anything without being easily tracked to the item they purchase. This has made the use of bitcoins lucrative for people wanting to buy drugs online or carry out illicit activities such as fund transfer.
The bitcoin market in Europe is slated to suffer setbacks due to a recent directive by the European Banking Authority ordering banks not to hold, buy or sell virtual currencies until financial authorities devise a way to regulate them. In North America, recent regulations have impacted the market; however, it is still expected to be the hub for market growth owing to a large number of bitcoin mining activities in the region. Market participants include ANXBTC Bitcoin Exchange, Expresscoin, Coinbase Inc. and BitPay among others.
This report by Grand View Research provides complete market estimates and forecasts up to 2020. The study also explains in detail various market dynamics including key drivers, restraints, growth opportunities and competitive landscape. Key questions answered by the report include:
- What is the current market size and what are the future growth prospects of the market
- What are the key applications in the market and what is their future potential
- What are the factors driving market growth and what are the key challenges for participants in this industry
- How will key regional markets perform up to 2020
- What is the competitive scenario in the market, which companies are expected to lead the market over the next six years
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a new currency that was created in 2009 by an unknown person using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Transactions are made with no middle men – meaning, no banks! Bitcoin can be used to book hotels on Expedia, shop for furniture on Overstock and buy Xbox games. But much of the hype is about getting rich by trading it. The price of bitcoin skyrocketed into the thousands in 2017.
Why Bitcoins?
Bitcoins can be used to buy merchandise anonymously. In addition, international payments are easy and cheap because bitcoins are not tied to any country or subject to regulation. Small businesses may like them because there are no credit card fees. Some people just buy bitcoins as an investment, hoping that they’ll go up in value.
Acquiring Bitcoins
Buy on an Exchange
Many marketplaces called “bitcoin exchanges” allow people to buy or sell bitcoins using different currencies. Coinbase is a leading exchange, along with Bitstamp and Bitfinex. But security can be a concern: bitcoins worth tens of millions of dollars were stolen from Bitfinex when it was hacked in 2016.
Transfers
People can send bitcoins to each other using mobile apps or their computers. It’s similar to sending cash digitally.
Mining
People compete to “mine” bitcoins using computers to solve complex math puzzles. This is how bitcoins are created. Currently, a winner is rewarded with 12.5 bitcoins roughly every 10 minutes.
Owning Bitcoins
Bitcoins are stored in a “digital wallet,” which exists either in the cloud or on a user’s computer. The wallet is a kind of virtual bank account that allows users to send or receive bitcoins, pay for goods or save their money. Unlike bank accounts, bitcoin wallets are not insured by the FDIC.
Wallet in cloud: Servers have been hacked. Companies have fled with clients’ Bitcoins.
Wallet on computer: You can accidentally delete them. Viruses could destroy them.
Though each bitcoin transaction is recorded in a public log, names of buyers and sellers are never revealed – only their wallet IDs. While that keeps bitcoin users’ transactions private, it also lets them buy or sell anything without easily tracing it back to them. That’s why it has become the currency of choice for people online buying drugs or other illicit activities.
Future in question
No one knows what will become of bitcoin. It is mostly unregulated, but some countries like Japan, China and Australia have begun weighing regulations. Governments are concerned about taxation and their lack of control over the currency.
Bitcoin worth $9M buried in garbage dump
Hoarders everywhere may be feeling smug after a British man threw a hard drive containing more than $9 million in bitcoin into the trash.
Bitcoin worth almost as much as gold
Bitcoin prices have surged to a high of $1,242. That makes the virtual currency only slightly less expensive than an ounce of gold.
Senate takes a close look at Bitcoin
Bitcoins are hotter than ever. Now a U.S. Senate panel is taking a close look at the digital currency.
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