You can invest in cryptocurrency. You can make charitable donations using cryptocurrency. And now, increasingly, you can use it to safely pay for everyday items in your shopping cart—worldwide. This week, TNC IT Group launched its Buyaladdin app, creating a virtual shopping mall that facilitates digital currency as a way to pay. This app allows…
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With every new Bitcoin milestone, more and more crypto bears are coming to appreciate the staying power of the cryptocurrency. Furthermore, as blockchain challenges the world monetary system, investors are increasingly diversifying their retirement savings with a Bitcoin IRA. Despite this, numerous misconceptions abound about Bitcoin IRAs (a.k.a. Digital IRAs or Crypto IRAs). Like almost…
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Once fiat currencies become shaky and the global economy sends off warning signals, it doesn’t take long for investors to flock to safe haven assets in order to preserve their wealth. And while the mainstream interpretation of safe haven assets has seemingly been set in stone, the roster appears to be primed for a new…
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The wide range of potential applications for innovation via blockchain solutions spans across all industries. As a result, our interest is always piqued when we hear the term “blockchain,” and we anticipate a creative application to a mission near and dear to someone’s heart. We knew we had to interview BlockPunk‘s CEO and Co-founder Julian…
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are often cited as some of the most volatile assets, and with good reason. Few assets can claim to have experienced a rise as sharp as that of 2017, a bearish run as severe as that of 2018, and as stellar of a rebound as the crypto market has seen in the last three months…
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Bitcoin’s turnaround this year has raised even the most bearish of eyebrows. After a doom-calling 2018 that saw the top coin sink to a low of about $3,200 from a high of nearly $20,000, some saw the latter figure, from December 2017, as a one-and-done deal, or an unsustainable bubble. Over the past three months,…
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Anu Bhardwaj is a dynamo focused on tackling women’s issues on a global scale, including facilitating entrepreneurship and investing. Anu collaborates with key industry players to obliterate barriers to entry and demonstrate to women that systems meant to intimidate them can be easily mastered. She’s already inspiring the next generation, as seen from…
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After months of rumors and speculation, the social-media giant, Facebook, finally announced its own crypto coin, Libra. Details spread quickly, especially when it became apparent that Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg have far greater ambitions for the Libra than previously expected. Instead of merely acting as an in-app payments solution akin to the Apple…
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In a recent series of articles, various Bitcoinist contributors examined the myriad of reasons why Bitcoin might be the most durable of all assets, despite having no physical foothold. Ever since Bitcoin’s boom towards the end of 2017, numerous governments have tried to impose bans on cryptocurrencies in various forms…
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