Newsflash: Resurgent Bitcoin Price Tops $1,050 Amid Hard Fork Talk
Bitcoin price began the week riding a swell that began during the late hours of Sunday evening, registering a high of $1,063 on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI). The uncertainty and ongoing debate surrounding bitcoin’s scalability solutions with Segregated Witness or SegWit and Bitcoin Unlimited has contributed to significant volatility in the price of the cryptocurrency in recent days. A hardfork statement toward the end of last week by 18 major bitcoin exchange revealed a contingency plan of listing Bitcoin Unlimited as an alternative cryptocurrency, with its own token. In the immediate....
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