Wired editor Mark Frauenfelder shared an enchanting story about how he almost lost $ 30 thousand in bitcoins due to the lost several digits of the PIN-code. Trezor: January 4th 2016: 7,4 BTC = $ 3 In January 000 I spent 2016 ...
For 15 years, the Danish bank Saxo Bank has been identifying 10 events whose likelihood is greatly underestimated. This year, the list published in the annual “Shocking Predictions” report included the collapse of Bitcoin, the triumph of corporate feminism, the weakening of Apple and the change in the mood of the American electorate, writes Russian...
The Winklevoss twin brothers became the world's first Bitcoin billionaires. They own 1% of this cryptocurrency, according to The Telegraph. Earlier, the brothers filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg for stealing the creation of the social network Facebook. As a result, they received $ 66 million in compensation, $ 11 million ...
Visitors to chef Didier Pavlicki's French restaurant La Sirène can pay for food in cryptocurrency - bitcoins. The contemporary French eatery, which opened on the Upper West Side on October 13, doesn't accept Mastercard or Visa and only accepts cash, check or...
The court of the Greek city of Thessaloniki at a hearing on Wednesday granted the US request for the extradition of Russian Alexander Vinnik. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Athens News Agency. The court also ruled to transfer to the American side a laptop, tablet and mobile phones seized ...
In the Greek Halkidiki, at the request of the United States, Russian Alexander Vinnik was detained, who is accused of organizing operations to launder at least $4 billion using bitcoins. On Thursday he was formally charged, writes Current Time. The police said that the detained Russian was 38...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has recognized bitcoin and other virtual currencies as the same financial instrument as oil futures. At the same time, the department turned to the Coinflip exchange, where you can sell bitcoin derivatives, with the requirement to officially register in order to comply with the rules of ordinary exchanges. The company agreed to the authorities' terms. As Bloomberg notes, the decision ...
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has begun tracking the value of bitcoin. The exchange website now has a widget that shows how much Bitcoin is worth in relation to the dollar. So far, the exchange tracks the value of virtual currency only for one service, Coinbase, in which it has a minority stake. In the future, to calculate the bitcoin index will be ...