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Advertisement Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. Peter Smith, the CEO of Blockchain, the second most widely utilized cryptocurrency wallet behind Coinbase, stated that central banks will begin to hold major digital currencies like bitcoin and Ethereum’s native token Ether in 2018. “I think this year will be the first year we start to see central banks start to hold digital currencies as part of their balance sheet. Bitcoin is already a top 30 currency by supply, and this trend, and pressure to hold digital currency as part of reserves will only accelerate as the price rises,”  said Smith. Some Central Banks Already Sitting on Bitcoin In December 2017, it was reported that the Bulgarian government has more than $3 billion in bitcoin in its account, mostly from funds seized during law enforcement investigations and crackdown on dark web marketplace operators. In May, the Bulgarian authorities officially sta...

Advertisement Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. The US Marshals Service is holding its first bitcoin auction in over a year.  The agency first held  a series of auctions  in 2014, selling  Bitcoin forfeited by Ross Ulbricht  in the United States clamp-down on the darkweb drug marketplace the Silk Road. In the  last of these auctions , the agency sold 2,700 Bitcoin for $1.6mln (worth about $37.8mln today).  Now, the Marshals Service will be auctioning 3,813 Bitcoin valued just around $53.3mln. Overseen by the US Department of Justice,  the auction  is slated for January 22nd and will include Bitcoin assets seized in various federal court cases. As they have in the past, the Marshals Service will divide the contents of the auction into multiple bidding blocks: “This sealed bid auction for approximately 3,813 bitcoin separated into three series: Series A (5 blocks of 500 ...

Is Amazon preparing to accept payments in Bitcoin? The e-commerce giant has registered a range of cryptocurrency domains, driving speculation it will accept them as payments. 15:39, UK, Thursday   02   November   2017 Image: Amazon has registered three new cryptocurrency domains       Amazon may be set to announce that it will be accepting Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on its e-commerce platform. Amazon has registered three new domains related to cryptocurrency, prompting speculation it may be about to announce a move into the sector. The company has not made an announcement regarding the reason for the registrations, but it could be preparing to accept the currencies as payment or launching an exchange for customers to purchase them. Amazon's legal department is listed as the registrant for the .com domains amazonethereum, amazoncryptocurrency, and amazoncryptocurrencies. Amazon registered amazonbitcoin.com t...

Advertisement Get Trading Recommendations and Read Analysis on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. The cryptocurrency market cap achieved a new all-time high on Thursday, briefly rising above $770 billion amidst a widespread altcoin rally. The ethereum price rode this wave across the $1,000 threshold, while the ripple price appears determined to extend what has been a remarkable rally. After entering the day at $683 billion, the  cryptocurrency market cap  climbed as high as $772 billion — an intraday increase of 13 percent. Following a Thursday morning dip, the combined value of all cryptocurrencies is now $753 billion. Source: CoinMarketCap Bitcoin Price Dips Below $15,000 The rally was accomplished without the help of bitcoin, which posted a daily decline of approximately one percent. This forced the bitcoin price below $15,000, a mark to which it had recovered on Tuesday following a  report  that a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital ...

The recent ripple price surge has undoubtedly made many investors quite wealthy. On Thursday, the global average  ripple price  rose to an all-time high of $3.84, meaning that a hypothetical $1,000 investment made on Jan. 1, 2017, would now be worth more than $600,000. No one, however, has benefited more than Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen, who is currently the firm’s executive chairman and formerly served as its CEO. Citing a source at Ripple,  Forbes  reports that Larsen personally owns 5.19 billion XRP and has a 17 percent stake in the company, which is currently holding 55 billion XRP in escrow. Based on the value of these holdings, Larsen is worth at least $55.8 billion, an estimate that excludes Ripple’s value as a company apart from its XRP balance. According to  Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index , this makes Larsen the eighth-wealthiest person in the world, ranking him just ahead of Google co-founder Larry Page and a few billion dollars behind ...

BITCOINS In this email we are going to discuss Bitcoin, and yes, we use to be afraid of it as well, and had many misconceptions of why people used it. We thought it was only used by scammers and people that wanted to hide their money or rip people off..We could not have been more wrong. The Six Biggest Misconceptions About Bitcoin http://www.investopedia.com/slide-show/six-biggest-misconceptions-about-bitcoin Please take a look at this article from the link below, and you will see, that there are numerous well known companies and product sellers, now accepting bitcoin, and the number of companies that are accepting it as a form of payment is increasing extremely fast. Many of these companies you know very well. http://www.coindesk.com/information/what-can-you-buy-with-bitcoins/ "Acceptance is what starts mass worldwide use" Why Bitcoin? With all the insecurity revolving Paypal, and there recent actions, this has led us to go out ...