#bitcoin price

September 8, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Bitcoin, News

Bitcoin suffered a steep drop on September 8, as rumors circulated that Bitcoin exchanges in China were to be banned. The event and reactions somewhat mirror the ICO ban on September 4, with crypto markets in the red. BTC-USD fell from the September 8 high of $4679.97 to a fresh...

Bitcoin Price Regains $4600, Market at Rest in Equilibrium

September 7, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at News

Following the ban of initial coin offerings in China, sentiment in cryptocurrency markets was dampened, sending BTC-USD as low as $4001.93 on the Bitstamp exchange on September 5. However, two days later and bitcoin’s price has already recovered to around $4635 at the time of writing. The cryptocurrency looks on...

Bitcoin Price, Consistently Posting Record Highs, Approaches $4000

August 12, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Price Analysis

Bitcoin enjoyed large gains over the week, breaking the all-time high numerous times, and peaked at $3934.00 on the Bitstamp exchange during August 12's trading session. At the time of writing, the price of bitcoin is at $3867.84, up over six percent on the day. The recent price rise also...

BIP 91 Likely to be Locked in Within 24 Hours, Bitcoin Displays Highest Ever Daily Gain

July 21, 2017 by Joseph Young at Bitcoin, Commentary, News, Price Analysis

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 91, or BIP 91 for short, a miner-activated soft fork (MASF) developed by James Hilliard, passed its 80 percent activation threshold on July 16 and is set to be locked in within 24 hours. The compromise between developers and the mining community has coincided with buoyant markets,...

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Approves Bitcoin Options Trading

July 11, 2017 by Alex Lielacher at Bitcoin, Finance, News, Regulation

U.S. financial regulators are not (yet) comfortable with a publicly-traded bitcoin ETF as witnessed by the SEC’s rejection of the Winklevoss Coin ETF. However, it turns out that they are comfortable with granting institutional investors access to bitcoin derivatives. On July 6, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced...

Coinbase Experienced Degraded Performance Amidst Bitcoin Surge

June 5, 2017 by Evan Sixtin at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, News

On May 22, Coinbase.com, the largest centralized online bitcoin exchange, operating in 32 countries, experienced a partial outage resulting in degraded performance, deposit/withdrawal delays, and some customers were unable to log in to their accounts. Bitcoin crossed the $2000 mark on May 20, 2017, and continued to climb to a...

South Korea: Government Mulling Taxing Cryptocurrency Capital Gains

South Korean Researchers Predict Bitcoin Price Using Forum Data

June 3, 2017 by Evan Sixtin at Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, News

An open access, peer-reviewed research paper published on May 12, 2017, by researchers from Korea University and Kangnam University in South Korea has explained a method for predicting the fluctuation in the bitcoin price and transactions based on user opinions posted on online forums. The paper, entitled "When Bitcoin encounters...

BitVal: Measuring Bitcoin Based On Money Laundering

May 25, 2017 by Nigel Dollentas at Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, News

With bitcoin skyrocketing in price and looking to break $3,000 if the current trajectory holds, how much is too much? What is one bitcoin really worth? BitVal, a beta metric, tries to put a valuation measure on the cryptocurrency in a way that makes logical sense. For stocks, this value...

Bitcoin Price Analysis: A Test of $1892 Incoming

May 14, 2017 by Jamie Holmes at Bitcoin, News, Price Analysis

BTC-USD has bounced back above $1800 momentarily on May 14 after dipping as low as $1601.46 on the Bitstamp exchange on May 13. After posting a fresh all-time high at $1892.00 earlier in the week, the market has completed a retracement to the 61.8 percent Fibonacci level and closed higher...

Upward Momentum in Bitcoin Price Intensifies on Litecoin’s Role as SegWit Testbed

May 9, 2017 by Joseph Young at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, News

Over the past month, the price of bitcoin has consistently maintained its upward trend and momentum, increasing from around $1,185 to $1,624 as litecoin moves to implement SegWit. In the past seven days, bitcoin price recorded a 15 percent weekly gain, breaking the $1700 barrier on May 9 for the...

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