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It’s that time again. Time to spin the wheel of predictions and see where the needle lands. Will the price increase? Will the price decrease? What about the fundamentals? Will China buy more bitcoins because of capital controls? All of these questions and more will be answered...

Chris Burniske, blockchain analyst and products lead at Ark Invest, told CNBC that bitcoin could be referred to as digital gold. Burniske described the similarities the cryptocurrency has with gold, including a limited supply and a relatively inert state. He went on to explain...

Chinese investors are driving up bitcoin again, pushing prices up by nearly 16 percent in the past four days, reported The Wall Street Journal. Citing data from blockchain.info, the newspaper said the four-day surge in bitcoin since Friday has pumped $1.2 billion in market...

Picture this. You’ve invested a substantial amount of your net worth in a single commodity. You can’t hold it, touch it, or predict the price. It isn’t well understood and the market is extremely opaque; at this point no one even knows who is in the market. Most alarmingly, the...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve likely heard of 21 Inc., one of the biggest stars in the bitcoin ecosystem. The recent launch of their flagship hardware product, which acts as a miner when used in conjunction with any networked computer, was supposed to...

New York-based licensed bitcoin exchange Gemini’s owners, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, in a blog post, have clarified their decision to reverse the large market buy order that was placed by a customer on last Friday evening and that drove up bitcoin’s price on the exchange to...

Today, the United States government started the final auction for bitcoin seized during the prosecution of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. Yahoo News reports the auction began at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Over 44,000 bitcoins are up for auction, consisting of 21 blocks of 2,000...

Bitcoin has enjoyed a strong performance this week. Yesterday, the cryptocurrency hit an eight-week high of around $256, according to Finance Magnates. Today, the currency topped $265. This is good news, as the currency still has a ways to go before it reaches it $309 high in...

Where is Bitcoin going? That’s the question on many minds as the price stays stagnant, hovering near $240. It wasn’t long ago, a year to be precise, that predictions were calling for Bitcoin to breach $2000. But this Christmas gift wasn’t to be. Instead, Bitcoin as an asset has...

Ahhh, everyone loves a little click-bait on Monday afternoons, am I right? But unlike every other bit of click-bait you might see that follows the syntactic rules of the headline to this article – this one is a real rule. What is it? Let’s start off by answering that. The...