How Institutional Investors Are Changing the Cryptocurrency Market
Institutional investors trading cryptocurrency gained ground in 2018, with a number of high profile players edging in and taking a seat at the table. Increased interest from larger investors may...
Mt.Gox: Leaked Info Purportedly Shows $318 Billion Cryptocurrency Sell-Offs on BitPoint
A copy of the bank book from the exchange’s...
Mark Karpeles Will Attraction Mt. Gox Conviction
Mark Karpelès, the previous CEO of the defunct Mt. Gox Bitcoin alternate says he'll attraction his conviction on digital knowledge manipulation costs. In the meantime, prosecutors on the case...
Bitcoin History Part 6: The First Bitcoin Exchange
Aside from mining, the only way to obtain bitcoin in the very early days was by trading it on forums or IRC. This arrangement relied on the other party...
Japanese Banks Launching Digital Currencies Could Inspire the Traditional Cash Society
Can a largely cash-based society become the leader in...
Former Mt. Gox CEO Says He Is Sorry But Maintains His Innocence as Trial...
Mark Karpeles, the former chief executive officer of the now-defunct Mt. Gox, has reportedly apologized for the losses that led to the demise of the cryptocurrency exchange. However, the...
Hacker from the 2016 Bitfinex Breach Transfers $21M Worth of Bitcoin to Unknown Wallets
On Wednesday morning (ET), around 2,034 BTC ($21.6 million) from the 2016 Bitfinex hack moved into a few unknown wallets. The action was caught by the Btcparser program as...
Former Mt Gox CEO Reflects on Incarceration in Japan While Facing More Prison Time
The infamous Mark Karpeles, former CEO of the now defunct bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, appeared in an exposé interview on Monday and publicly discussed how he tolerated Japanese jail. Karpeles...
Mt. Gox Bitcoin Dump Killed Last Summer’s Price Rally, New Report Suggests
A new report by GoxDox, allegedly shows that Mt.Gox trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi dumped bitcoin on cryptocurrency exchanges despite maintaining claims to the contrary. Leaked documents presented in the report...
Bitcoin History Part 7: The First Major Hack
Hacks and heists have been a threat for as long as bitcoin has been worth stealing. By 2011, as Bitcoin was easing into its second year of life and...