Stellar Blasts Into 2018 Cryptocurrency Top 10: Online Gambling Site Now Accepts It

Stellar Blasts Into 2018 Cryptocurrency Top 10: Online Gambling Site Now Accepts It

Stellar is described is an open-source project with a “distributed, hybrid blockchain”. It “exists to facilitate cross-asset transfers of value, including payments.

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Investor With Excellent Track Record Calls Bitcoin 'a Bubble'

In a letter to investors on Wednesday, Boston-based investment management firm GMO co-founder Jeremy Grantham insisted that Bitcoin is a bubble.

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Online Bookmaker Embraces Ripple as Cryptocurrency Surges

Bookmaker .eu, North America's oldest established online sportsbook, says it plans to continue offering the cryptocurrency Ripple to its thousands of clients across the world. 

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Egypt's Top Cleric: ‘Bitcoin Goes Against Sharia Law’

Egypt's Top Cleric: ‘Bitcoin Goes Against Sharia Law’

Halal or not?  One of Egypt's top clerics has come out against the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, saying it's a “form of deception that falls under legal liability.”

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Roger Ver: Easy to Understand Why Bitcoin Cash Better Than Bitcoin Core

Roger Ver: Easy to Understand Why Bitcoin Cash Better Than Bitcoin Core

In a tweet posted Thursday morning, one of the original Bitcoin millionaires and proprietor of the Bitcoin.com website, Roger Ver, attempted to demonstrate reasons why Bitcoin Cash "is better than Bitcoin Core".

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Reports Of Peter Thiel's Big Bet On Bitcoin Sends Cryptocurrency Higher

Reports Of Peter Thiel's Big Bet On Bitcoin Sends Cryptocurrency Higher

Peter Thiel coming into the space is just another way of showing people are making money, says David Drake, LDL Capital chairman, discussing the future of digital currencies and CNBC says this move helped boost the price of Bitcoin Tuesday.

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BetterBetting CEO: '2018 the Year We Deliver The Future of Betting'

BetterBetting CEO: '2018 the Year We Deliver The Future of Betting'

BetterBetting.org CEO and founder Adriaan Brink was set to meet in Estonia this week to discuss his company's ICO. 

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Top Pay Per Head Offers Great Sportsbook Services With Low Prices

Top Pay Per Head Offers Great Sportsbook Services With Low Prices

The aim of any business is to make money. The amount of profit varies from business to business. Price per head bookie business is not exceptional. 

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Online Gambling Sites Begin Accepting Ripple as Cryptocurrency Boom Takes Hold

Online Gambling Sites Begin Accepting Ripple as Cryptocurrency Boom Takes Hold

The oldest online gambling firm in North and South America, Bookmaker.eu, announced recently that it had implemented the popular cryptocurrency Ripple along with nearly five dozen other digital anonymous currencies.

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CoinGeek’s bComm Conference to be Held at The Four Seasons Hong Kong

CoinGeek’s bComm Conference to be Held at The Four Seasons Hong Kong

One of the most anticipated conferences in the world of cryptocurrencies is to take place this May in Hong Kong.

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Bitcoin’s ‘Millennial’ Surge Doesn’t Make It To Hit Top 10 Cryptoassets

Bitcoin’s ‘Millennial’ Surge Doesn’t Make It To Hit Top 10 Cryptoassets

The price of the Bitcoin shoots by nearly 1000% in 2017. Above all, this is a great achievement this digital coin reaches. Digital currency investors make lots of money.

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Bitcoin Bet Wins Big for Peter Thiel

As reported yesterday, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund hopes to capitalize big on the Bitcoin craze.

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Crypto-Currencies See Nice Start to New Year, Bitcoin Market Cap at New Low Though

Crypto-Currencies See Nice Start to New Year, Bitcoin Market Cap at New Low

Bitcoin core markets were up 4% following a holiday slump to kick off the new year. The price of Bitcoin was averaging between $14,600-14,800 across global exchanges as of Tuesday

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XWIN CryptoBet Secures Belize Gaming License

Following reports that Ethereum-based Edgeless online casino has secured a gaming license in the jurisdiction of Curacao comes word that XWIN CryptoBet has obtained a gaming license in the Central American nation of Belize.

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WSJ: Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Make Monster Bet on Bitcoin

WSJ: Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Make Monster Bet on Bitcoin

Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has amassed hundreds of millions of dollars of the volatile cryptocurrency, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

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Bitcoin Being Fueled by 'a Class of Really Stupid Speculators' Expert Claims

Bitcoin, the digital anonymous crypto-currency, is due to crash and burn as a result of speculators, claims David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's former director of the Office of Management and a relentless Wall Street bear.

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Growing Pains for Bitcoin, Other Crypto-Currency Online Poker Rooms

Growing Pains for Bitcoin, Other Crypto-Currency Online Poker Rooms

Professional Rakeback this week identified some of the causes for Bitcoin and other crypto-currency-based online poker rooms struggles to close out 2017 at a time when Bitcoin is inching towards the $20,000 mark.

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Jordan Belfort: "Bitcoin Value Will Fall to Zero'

Jordan Belfort: "Bitcoin Value Will Fall to Zero'

‘Way of the Wolf’ author Jordan Belfort explains why the lack of scarcity of bitcoin -- and the readily available forms of other cryptocurrencies -- will ultimately decrease its value close to zero.

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Decentralized Casino on Ethereum Edgeless Receives Curacao Blockchain License

The Dutch Antilles island of Curacao, long a hub for the online gambling sector, has issued a casino license to Edgeless, a decentralized application launched on top of the Ethereum protocol.

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Bank of England could Have Its Own Bitcoin-Style Digital Currency

Bank of England could Have Its Own Bitcoin-Style Digital Currency

The over 300-year-old Bank of England is considering launching its own Bitcoin-style digital currency according to local media reports following nearly three years of research into linking the sterling with a state-backed crypto.

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Ripple the Top 10 Cryptoasset of 2017

Ripple the Top 10 Cryptoasset of 2017

Ripple, not Bitcoin, was named the top cryptoassets of 2017 according to Joon Ian Wong of Quartz.

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Commodities King Dennis Gartman: "Bitcoin Is Nonsense'

With Bitcoin over $14,00, Commodities King Dennis Gartman was asked how much of that is he gonna buy.

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Bitcoin Developer Released After $1m Bitcoin Paid to Kidnappers

Victim said to be "safe" but 'stressed"

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Latest Bitcoin Hard Fork Attempt Causes Worries in Crypto-Currency Markets

Latest Bitcoin Hard Fork Causes Worries in Crypto-Currency Markets

Prior to Bitcoin's latest hard fork attempt Thursday, Jim Cramer of CNBC said that "Bitcoin is not an investment".

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Bitcoin and the Incredible Rise From $900 to $20,000 in 2017 Revisited

Bitcoin and the Incredible Rise From $900 to $20,000 in 2017 Revisited

CoinDesk.com on Friday examined the wild ride the crypto-currency Bitcoin has taken during 2017 with the price hovering between $930 and $970 at the start of the new year.

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Billionaire Tilman Fertitta Says Bitcoin Here to Stay But New Buyers Want Insurance

Billionaire Tilman Fertitta Says Bitcoin Here to Stay But New Buyers Want Insurance

Billionaire Tilman Fertitta gave his fairly bullish take on the wildly popular digital currency bitcoin in an interview with CNBC Thursday. 

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Bitcoin Drops Amidst Regulatory Concerns

The "Squawk on the Street" crew talks about the drop in bitcoin and the good year for U.S. stocks.

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Crypto Entrepreneur Kidnapped in Kiev

Crypto Entrepreneur Kidnapped in Kiev

Authorities in the Ukraine are investigating the kidnapping of 40-year-old Russian programmer and cryptocurrency investor Pavel Lerner in Kiev.

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My 400 Bitcoin Bet Paid Off, But is it too Late for Others

Allasandra Sollberger, Chief Executive of Evermore Health, talks to the BBC about her experience buying and managing the crypto-currency Bitcoin.

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Regulator: Bitcoin 'Doesn't Pass the Smell Test’

Regulator: Bitcoin 'Doesn't Pass the Smell Test’

Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Galvin is claiming that, when it comes to the crypto-currency Bitcoin, “there is no product here.”

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