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Cryptocurrencies Continue Recovery, Resume 2017’s Growth Trend

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Cryptocurrencies Continue Recovery, Resume 2017’s Growth Trend Cryptocurrencies continued their recovery from last week’s massive price fallout, resuming the upward trend that has characterized 2017. All but 12 of the top 100 cryptocurrenices posted gains in the last 24-hour period.   Market leaders bitcoin and Ethereum had the smallest gains the last 24-hour period, with … Continue reading Cryptocurrencies Continue Recovery, Resume 2017’s Growth Trend →

Cryptocurrency: How We Hook the Masses

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Cryptocurrency: How We Hook the Masses In this opinion piece, Svinkin argues that using cryptocurrencies for rewards schemes can demonstrate the value of the technology and ultimately help bring mass adoption. Before the hype and before the price explosions of the past year, I sat down and looked at cryptocurrencies from a UX perspective. That … Continue reading Cryptocurrency: How We Hook the Masses →

Bitcoin Will Make Lots of Millionaires Before “Returning Down to Earth”: Economics Professor

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 Bitcoin Will Make Lots of Millionaires Before “Returning Down to Earth”: Economics Professor   Despite its price volatility, Bitcoin is likely to make more millionaires. Panos Mourdoukoutas, chair of the department of economics at LIU Post in New York City, whose works are published by Forbes and The New York Times, thinks Bitcoin is … Continue reading Bitcoin Will Make Lots of Millionaires Before “Returning Down to Earth”: Economics Professor →

Teenage bitcoin millionaire can see the cryptocurrency’s value shooting as high as $1 million

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Teenage bitcoin millionaire can see the cryptocurrency’s value shooting as high as $1 million If this teen entrepreneur, high-school dropout and bitcoin millionaire has any predictive powers at all, then we’ve hardly seen the top of the market for the hot cybercurrency. Meet Erik Finman, who started picking up bitcoin at $12 apiece back in … Continue reading Teenage bitcoin millionaire can see the cryptocurrency’s value shooting as high as $1 million →

Top 3 Reasons Not to Use an Exchange Wallet to Participate in a Cryptocurrency ICO

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Top 3 Reasons Not to Use an Exchange Wallet to Participate in a Cryptocurrency ICO Even though cryptocurrency ICOs have been going on for quite some time now, a lot of basic questions continue to show up. It appears there is a lot of confusion as to why one should never send funds to an … Continue reading Top 3 Reasons Not to Use an Exchange Wallet to Participate in a Cryptocurrency ICO →

Bitcoin prices likely to continue wild ride

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Bitcoin prices likely to continue wild ride SAN FRANCISCO — What goes precipitously up, often comes crashing down to earth. So it was with bitcoin on Thursday, when the price of the digital currency plunged 19% — its steepest drop in more than two years — after a record run. The volatility remained on full … Continue reading Bitcoin prices likely to continue wild ride →

Traders Plan for Correction as Crypto Market Falls Below $100 Billion

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Traders Plan for Correction as Crypto Market Falls Below $100 Billion The total value of all publicly traded cryptocurrencies may be at an all-time high, but trader confidence isn't keeping pace. After rising more than 1,500% from just over $7bn on 1st January, the market is beginning to show signs that its rapid ascent in … Continue reading Traders Plan for Correction as Crypto Market Falls Below $100 Billion →

Getting High on Cryptocurrencies

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Getting High on Cryptocurrencies There are now four times as many cryptocurrencies in circulation as fiat currencies.That's amazing. And encouraging.According to the Swiss Association for Standardization, which maintains the International Standards Organization database, there are 177 national currencies currently in use. That list generously includes four precious-metals and four bond-market units (codes XBA to XBD, … Continue reading Getting High on Cryptocurrencies →

Bitcoin, Ethereum and a New Direction for Cryptocurrency Investment

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Bitcoin, Ethereum and a New Direction for Cryptocurrency Investment This week CoinDesk released its State of Blockchain Q1 2017 study, which details recent trends, statistics and sentiment around cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. While the entire report is worth a read (there are some surprises), two slides especially caught my attention. When put together and compared … Continue reading Bitcoin, Ethereum and a New Direction for Cryptocurrency Investment →