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Bitcoin beaten? new cryptocurrency ripple surpasses bitcoin in meteoric value increase

Bitcoin beaten? new cryptocurrency ripple surpasses bitcoin in meteoric value increase

A single Ripple token, referred to as XRP, is worth a modest $1.13 today but could be had for just $0.006 in January, according to the latest figures from CoinMarketCap. The massive rise equates to an eye-watering 1,783 per cent appreciation in value since the start of the year. Nearly $43billion is invested in to Ripple across the world, and the digital currency has a number of high-profile users -...

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Popular bitcoin fund suspended ahead of new eu rules

Popular bitcoin fund suspended ahead of new eu rules

The broker is still allowing investors to buy the popular XBT Bitcoin tracker – a fund that tracks the price of bitcoin.  The fund, offered by a Swedish company, XBT Provider, is structured as an "exchange-traded note". Like the investment trust, this is a fund listed on the stock exchange, meaning it can be bought and sold like a share. Bitcoin has plummeted in price in recent days, dropping 30pc. It fell from an all-time high...

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Bitcoin slides 14 percent on crackdown fears, hits four week low

Bitcoin slides 14 percent on crackdown fears, hits four-week low.

LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin slid as much as 14 percent on Tuesday to hit a four-week low below $12,000, as fears grew of a regulatory crackdown after reports that South Korea’s finance minister had said banning trading in cryptocurrencies was still an option.

South Korean news website Yonhap reported that Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon had told a local radio station that the government would be coming up with a set of...

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Bitcoin blow: mainstream hopes could collapse as bank of america bans cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin blow: mainstream hopes could collapse as bank of america bans cryptocurrencies

GETTYWall Street in New York is a global financial capitalMerrill Lynch’s decision to block access to the fund comes after concerns were raised by bank chiefs over the "suitability and eligibility standards of this product”, according to an internal memo circulated to approximately 17,000 advisers. The ban extends to clients trading in Grayscale's Bitcoin Investment Trust, a fund led by bitcoin...

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Where did wikileaks $25 million bitcoin fortune go?

Where did wikileaks $25 million bitcoin fortune go?

Everyone from early investors to cybercriminals has benefited from the huge spike in the value of bitcoin in the past few weeks. It’s a boon for one other outfit that has likely racked up tens of millions of dollars’ worth of the cryptocurrency: WikiLeaks. The transparency organization may be sitting on a stockpile of bitcoin valued at around $25 million, and has likely exchanged several other large cryptocurrency caches for fiat cash,...

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