Posts published in February 2015

Bitcoin (BTC/USD) has broken its streak of some of the in 2015, dropping sharply by as much as 5% to $225 on BTC-e. After a…

Alpari Japan, a subsidiary of the , has informed its former clients today that they must login to their MT4 terminals or Alpari Direct platforms…

The euro declined today against other most-traded currencies after the German business climate missed projections, reigniting concerns about the financial stability of the eurozone. The Ifo Business Climate Index for Germany rose…

The police department in Midlothian, a town outside Chicago, Illinois, was reportedly hit last month with a form of the Cryptoware virus. The virus encrypted critical files,…

  What effect will Greece have on the Euro this week? Once again this last week we traded not on fundamental data or from a…

Hiroshi Mikitani, chief executive at Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten, to accept bitcoin. Rakuten’s e-commerce operation is the largest in Japan and one of the largest in…

If the wild price of moves of bitcoin from 2013 to 2014 did nothing more than get people’s attention about the blockchain than arguably it…

The Japanese yen was stable today after the release of the Bank of Japan monetary policy minutes. At the same time, the yen rallied together with other currencies against the euro. The Bank of Japan released…

A New York City firefighter, Dwayne Richards, was reportedly stabbed and robbed of bitcoins. He survived the incident and is recovering. Richards had arranged to meet…

is back up and running after being down for several days following a of 7,170 BTC ($1.7 million) from its cold wallet. The China-based exchange…