Coinbase is about to get a serious run for its (cryptographic) money. Robinhood Crypto, the zero-fee cryptocurrency trading platform announced last month by Robinhood, has begun rolling out to the first wave of customers over the past few days. The service will initially be available in customers in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, and New Hampshire- with […]
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Litecoin Creator Announces He’s Sold All of His Coins
Citing concerns over possible conflict of interest, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee announced on Reddit earlier that he had either sold or donated all of his Litecoins. He explained that some people seemed to be concerned about the amount of influence he was having over the price of Litecoin by promoting it, and may see him […]
Bitcoin Cash Comes to Coinbase- But Not Everyone is Happy
Coinbase announced earlier today that Bitcoin Cash has been added on their platform- not just the ability to claim coins that users were entitled to after the hard fork, as they had done with Ethereum Classic, but full support for sending, receiving, and trading on Coinbase and GDAX. As this Reddit conversation points out, though, […]
Bitcoin Crosses $10,000 For The First Time
Earlier today the price of a single bitcoin crossed the very significant $10,000 barrier for the first time, only days after crossing $9,000- and there seems to be no sign of a slowdown. The CME announcement of Bitcoin Futures coming next month has attracted a lot of interest, especially from traditional institutional investors looking for […]
McRocket: Bitcoin’s Market Cap Is Now Higher Than McDonald’s
Bitcoin has reached another major milestone that will make it harder to dismiss and ignore. As of right now, 1:14 am on 11-22-17, according to Coin Market Cap, the total market value of all Bitcoins in circulation is higher than the market cap of McDonald’s. Yes, you read that right. And while some may say […]
Bitcoin Price Crosses $6000 For The First Time
Earlier today, the price of a single bitcoin rose above $6000 for the first time, only weeks after crossing the $5000 milestone. It’s not entirely clear what’s behind the current rapid price rise, but it’s most likely at least partially due to the upcoming Bitcoin Gold and Segwit 2X hard forks planned for later this […]
Bitcoin’s Market Cap Is Now Higher Than Goldman Sachs
Not long after crossing the $5000 mark, Bitcoin reached another all-time high on Thursday, with prices going above $5800. When that happened, Bitcoin’s market cap went above $95 billion, and at the time of this writing is now back at $95 billion after dipping down briefly- which brings Bitcoin to yet another significant milestone. For […]
After Passing $4000, Bitcoin Shows Few Signs of Slowing down
After passing $4000 over the weekend, the price of a single Bitcoin has continued to climb upward the past couple days. After passing $4100 it pulled back a bit, but today it moved upward again to pass $4200 then $4300, and peaked earlier around $4430. The recent lock-in of SegWit, which should be fully activated […]
Fidelity Partners with Coinbase to Add Digital Asset Tracking to Portfolios
Today Fidelity Investments announced the launch of a test phase of a new integration feature that will allow Fidelity customers to track the value of Bitcoin and other blockchain assets in their Coinbase wallet alongside other accounts in their portfolio of investments, directly on the Fidelity website. They have a YouTube video that explains how […]