Key Events That Will Drive The XRP Price To $10

A man has accidentally thrown away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins. He is now offering his city 25% of the value of the bitcoins stored in the hard drive for permission to search the city’s landfill site. His bitcoins are now worth almost $300 million at the current price. In Search of Hard Drive Containing 7,500 Bitcoins James Howells, an IT engineer, mistakenly threw away the hard drive of an old computer containing 7,500 bitcoins. The coins, worth almost $300 million at the current price, is now in a landfill site in Newport, South Wales. The 35-year-old explained that he....

Last night was something of a strange one in Bitcoin. While wider economic fundamentals have had something of a muted effect on the value of the digital currency in the past, there have been certain underlying events that have served to drive volatility. Such events include the big US inflation miss we got last year, the Eurozone situation (i.e. Greece and Germany) and-back in September-market uncertainty as to whether the Fed was going to raise interest rates or not. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve in the US did raise its base rate (by 0.25%) and-theoretically-this should have translated....

The global desire for change seems to be growing. It looks like the people just want something different, no matter what. These recent developments have coincided with the recent rise in Bitcoin price and awareness. Examples include events such as Brexit, the U.S. elections and even the general elections in Nigeria, after which Bitcoin awareness has become overwhelming in the African nation. “History has shown us many times that when the economy and the official currency have struggled, people were seeking alternatives,” says Alena Vranova, co-founder and CEO at SatoshiLabs. With the....

Bitcoin price meanders near its low, apparently acquainting itself with long-term support. Chart technicals to one side today, as we consider the question “Do fundamentals drive price?” Today’s article considers the bitcoin price chart in context of similar speculative markets. The discussion focusses on the notion of fundamentals. The term fundamentals is used in its broadest sense, and not in the strict investment definition that refers to company balance sheets, work in progress, and so on. Although there are parallels between the bitcoin price market and other commodity markets, as....

By women and for women: Crypto industry leaders take action to bring equality to the blockchain sector by developing female-centric initiatives. The tech industry is notorious for its male-dominated culture, and unfortunately, the blockchain space may still be exhibiting this, at least for the time being. Although female cryptocurrency investors are on the rise, men still make up the majority of job positions within the blockchain sector. This could be due to a number of reasons, such as a lack of funding for female-led blockchain companies or the ever-present gender wage gap in tech.....