This is what you need to know about the upcoming bitcoin halvening June 23, 2016 Bitcoin has several unique properties over traditional currencies that, depending on your economic belief system, are either advantages or disadvantages. Within the next month, we will see one of those unique properties in action: Bitcoin's deflationary nature, embodied in the event known as either the halving or halvening. In order to understand the halving and what it [...]
EU referendum wipes more than $100 off the price of bitcoin June 23, 2016 The bitcoin price was hammered on Thursday, losing almost $130 (£89) over 24 hours, as Britons took to the polls to cast their ballots in the EU referendum. By 5.30pm (GMT) the price of a single bitcoin was trading down 3.7 per cent at $573, according to the Bitstamp market exchange. However the day's low, mostly prompted by the EU referendum's [...]
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Bitcoin price stays flat following outage at Bitfinex exchange and huge value fall on Tuesday June 22, 2016 The bitcoin price hovered between $660 (£449) and $670 for much of Wednesday, failing to make more than modest gains after the cryptocurrency fell by 10 per cent in value on Tuesday. By 1pm (GMT), bitcoin was trading just over $663, according to the Bitstamp price index. Last Thursday it reached a more than two-year price high after [...]
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