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BitMEX crypto exchange lays off a quarter of staff after failed acquisition

Derivatives-focused crypto exchange BitMEX has laid off about 75 employees, or a quarter of the company’s staff, days after its founders’ plans to acquire a German bank fell through. Staff

Bitcoin passes $20K and reaches all-time high

After reaching a previous all-time high on November 30th, 2020 and December 1st, 2020, bitcoin is now trading well above $20,000 and has surpassed its previous peak price. Bitcoin’s value has rapidl

Bitcoin is also having a very, very bad day

Bitcoin is going through a remarkably bad day. It turns out all assets are having a rough month — including cryptocurrencies. A couple of hours ago, the average price of BTC dropped by 15% in just 2

Bitcoin price falls but doesn’t flatline

Those not looking at the Bitcoin markets lately will either gasp or smile. Bitcoin, down from its all time high of around $19,000, is now floating at $6,785 as of this writing. To many this means that

Crunch Report | CNN shuts down Casey Neistat’s Beme

Robinhood is going to let you buy and sell crypto soon, CNN shuts down Casey Neistat's Beme and Sotheby's acquires Thread Genius. All this on Crunch Report.

Bitcoin drops below $10K after three days of cryptocurrency correction

The crypto crash that began two days ago accelerated yesterday and today, with essentially all top 100 coins down anywhere between 15-30 percent. The total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencie

Bitcoin futures are now tradable on the CBOE

Bitcoin futures trading on CBOE, the world’s largest futures exchange, just launched at 5pm CT. Within a minute of the launch bitcoin spiked about 10% from ~$14,700 all the way up to $16,200 be

One bitcoin is now worth $10,000

It happened. One bitcoin is now worth $10,000. The milestone was hit on international exchanges earlier in the day (where prices are normally a few percent higher) and was just crossed on U.S exchange

Bitcoin just passed $8,000

Bitcoin has been on a wild run. Yesterday the price shot past $8,000 for the first time, and per usual when it breaks through a milestone is now trading solidly above it at $8,250. 

Crunch Report | The Many Faces of SpaceX Explosions

SpaceX releases a fail video showing all of its explosions, marijuana delivery startup Eaze raises $27 million, Nestlé buys a majority stake in Blue Bottle Coffee and BTC China is suspending trading.

ProtonMail adds Bitcoin support so you can pay for e2e encrypted email more privately

End-to-end encrypted email provider ProtonMail has added official support for payment in Bitcoin. In a blog about the addition, it notes: "Starting from version 3.11 of ProtonMail it is now possibl

WTF is bitcoin cash and is it worth anything?

Early yesterday morning bitcoin's blockchain forked -- meaning a separate cryptocurrency was created called bitcoin cash. Right now, bitcoin cash is actually worth quite a bit -- on paper at least. So

The price of Bitcoin just hit an all-time high

Wow -- Bitcoin just hit an all-time high. The digital currency is currently trading at around $1,186 -- which is about $20 more than its previous all-time high of ~$1,165, which it hit in November 201

Bitcoin price jumps 21 percent over 4 days, reaching a 21-month high

Bitcoin is back! Or at least, there are positive signs indicating that bitcoin might not be as dead as everybody thought. Bitcoins are now trading at $547.40 on Bitfinex (the largest USD/bitcoin excha

Coinbase is finally letting you instantly buy Bitcoin with a debit card

Anyone who has been a long-time user of Coinbase knows that the cryptocurrency startup hasn’t exactly always made it easy to buy Bitcoin. In the early days you had to link your U.S bank account,

BTXDeals Is An Online Marketplace For Blowing Bitcoin

Got some Bitcoin burning a hole in your virtual wallet? There's an online marketplace for that... U.K.-based BTXDeals.com has just launched an e-tail website where sellers are offering goods and serv

Hardware Battlefield Finalist CubeSensors Raises A $700,000 Seed Round In Bitcoin

Bitcoins are everywhere these days! CubeSensors, a Slovenian hardware startup that is making mini environmental sensors for homes, has just received a $700,000 seed round from the founders of BTC paym

Apple Starts Letting Bitcoin Transfer Apps Back Into Its App Store

Apple’s Bitcoin freeze appears to be thawing fast, with bitcoin wallet apps that offer the ability to transfer BTC now filtering back into the App Store. The move was picked up by Coindesk yes

Netagio, A ‘Cold Storage’ Bitcoin Vault, Adds The Ability To Trade BTC For Gold Bars (Or Vice Versa)

Keeping bitcoin safe isn't easy. If the wild currency fluctuations don't get you, then it'll be the exchanges going pop in the night and taking a chunk of BTC with them, or the myriad digital wallets

Robocoin Spreads Its Bitcoin ATMs Further

Robocoin, the bi-directional Bitcoin ATM, is ramping up its nascent footprint -- with launches planned for 10 more global locations. The company said today it will be shipping its first Bitcoin ATMs t
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