Category: Bitcoin

First Lightning Network Transaction Performed by BitMari

Having recently crossed the 2,000 mark of active nodes with 5,801 open channels on the main network, the Lightning network…

April 26, 2018 8:20 am

Disgraced Mt. Gox CEO Appointed as London Trust Media CTO

The last four years have been pretty tough for Mark Karpelès, the Chief Executive Officer of Mt. Gox, the bitcoin…

April 20, 2018 8:41 am

Bitcoin Declared “Generally Permissible” Under Islamic Law

Yesterday, the value of Bitcoin went from $6,962.6 to $7,720.27 in less than one hour sparking a whole lot of…

April 14, 2018 8:52 am

Crypto Trading Has Not Been Banned In India, Govt. Confirms

As mentioned in the Friday news post, the cryptocurrency situation in India is quite unstable at the moment. Still, it…

April 8, 2018 9:38 am

RBI Bans Regulated Entities from Dealing in Cryptocurrencies

Even though it is currently exploring the creation of its own cryptocurrency, India’s central bank on April 5 escalated a…

April 6, 2018 8:40 am

Bitcoin Crashes Again amid Social Media Ban on Crypto Ads

Just a few months after Facebook banned cryptocurrency adverts on its platform, Twitter has followed in its footsteps by confirming…

March 28, 2018 7:32 am

Bitcoin Price Brushes Aside Child Abuse Report, Nears $9,000

On Tuesday evening, bitcoin’s price rose above $9,000 for the first time in a week regardless of reports that its…

March 22, 2018 7:44 am

Bitcoin Mining Has Just Been Banned in Small New York Town

Plattsburgh, a small lakeside town in northeastern New York has banned the establishment of new bitcoin mining firms for the…

March 17, 2018 8:23 am

India Can’t Regulate Bitcoin, Says Former Indian Bureaucrat

India has been struggling with regulating cryptocurrencies for quite some time now mostly because of the strong aversion the governments…

March 12, 2018 8:03 am

Crypto Prices Drop Amidst Trader Suspicion of Binance Hack

The major cryptocurrencies on Wednesday experienced sharp price drops as reports of system errors at Binance, a renowned crypto exchange,…

March 8, 2018 8:27 am