Author: Ryan Tucker

China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) recently published a draft paper that highlighted Bitcoin mining as an undesirable industry for the country. Bitcoin miners have long flocked to areas with cheap and abundant sources of electricity, which in practice means hydroelectric or geothermal energy production. Rural areas of China, upstate New York and parts […]

It’s no secret that the cryptocurrency boom that catapulted Bitcoin past $20,000 a couple years ago brought quite a few investing neophytes into the cryptocurrency ecosystem. At a time when prices seemed to be doubling every month, it seemed that the sky was the limit and that all you had to do was buy Bitcoin […]

One of the advantages of Bitcoin that appealed to many first adopters of the technology was the fact that it had no central authority. The only central entity was the protocol itself, which was used by miners, consumers, and investors across the globe. That meant that no single entity could create new bitcoins out of […]

Bitcoin has revolutionized the world of payments, allowing individuals to transact with each other without the use of banks or other centralized payment processors. Those transactions can even take place across international borders, with greatly reduced cost versus what would normally occur through the banking system. But the one knock on Bitcoin is that, as […]

A few weeks ago US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase came in for a tremendous amount of criticism from consumers and investors after a recent acquisition. The exchange purchased a blockchain analytics firm, Neutrino, whose CEO, CTO, and chief resource officer had all previously worked at the security firm Hacking Team. Hacking Team was notorious in the […]

Since the financial crisis more and more people have become familiar with the concept of stress tests, the tests which central banks and financial regulators use to determine the strength and resilience of the banking system. Stress tests require banks to analyze their potential performance under a series of hypothetical scenarios. The tests are designed […]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) now has not one, but two Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposals to decide on. The first major Bitcoin financial products to gain regulatory approval were Bitcoin futures, approved in late 2017 by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Since that time Bitcoin ETF proposals have languished at SEC, […]

After several months of price declines and back and forth movement, it looks like Bitcoin has finally bottomed out and started to rebound. At one point naysayers thought it likely that Bitcoin would drop below $3,000, but now it looks like Bitcoin is set to break through the $4,000 barrier it has been challenging for […]

Most Bitcoin investors and enthusiasts understand the many advantages of Bitcoin and its usefulness both as a currency and as an investment. But while Bitcoin stands on the cusp of revolutionizing currency and payment systems throughout the developed world, it also plays a vital role in much of the developing world. In countries facing corrupt […]

In a further sign that Bitcoin continues down the path toward joining the financial mainstream, stock exchange operator Nasdaq has announced that it will add quotes for Bitcoin and Ethereum to its data service offered through the Nasdaq Global Index Data Service (GIDS). That change will take effect on February 25. Since Bitcoin, Ethereum, and […]