The price of bitcoin briefly peaked above $45,000 over the weekend, as an industry-wide surge added more than $200 billion to the overall crypto market.Bitcoin has since dipped slightly and is now trading at around $43,500 on Monday morning, but remains 50 per cent up since crashing below $30,000 three weeks ago.The remarkable gains look…
Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market are continuing to swing after a good – and then bad – week.The value of digital currencies was sent soaring last week, amid reports that Amazon was planning to introduce bitcoin payments to its store. First a job ad showed that it was hiring crypto experts, and then…
Ethereum, the technology underpinning the ether cryptocurrency, has just activated its “London” hard fork.The upgrade to the digital ledger - and the world’s second biggest cryptocurrency - changes the way transaction fees are estimated.Currently, users must bid for how much they would pay to have a transaction picked up by a miner, which can be…
Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market are continuing to swing after a good – and then bad – week.The value of digital currencies was sent soaring last week, amid reports that Amazon was planning to introduce bitcoin payments to its store. First a job ad showed that it was hiring crypto experts, and then…
Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market are continuing to swing after a good – and then bad – week.The value of digital currencies was sent soaring last week, amid reports that Amazon was planning to introduce bitcoin payments to its store. First a job ad showed that it was hiring crypto experts, and then…
Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market is continuing to fluctuate after a dramatic week.The cryptocurrency market was down as a whole on Monday, led by a dramatic 4.36 per cent drop in the value of bitcoin. Its price was around $39,700 – still a long way from recent weeks, when it was hovering much…
A “cryptocurrencybillionaire” has ensured they will be safely protected at home - with the purchase of a $83m mansion outfitted with two panic rooms.The purchase of the Pacific Palisades mansion, which marks the second-most-expensive residential sale in California this year, according to real estate website Dirt, also provides the new owner with 20,000 sq ft…
Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market has recovered from recent plunging prices in spectacular fashion.Monday saw a rapid recovery in the price of all cryptocurrency, with bitcoin gaining as much as 15 per cent. Tuesday then saw it fall again, not wiping off all those gains but removing many of them.Now Wednesday has…
Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market has recovered from recent plunging prices in spectacular fashion.Monday saw a rapid recovery in the price of all cryptocurrency, with bitcoin gaining as much as 15 per cent. Tuesday then saw it fall again, not wiping off all those gains but removing many of them.Now Wednesday has…