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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin market cap rivals world’s largest beer company’

Aug16
by on August 16, 2019 at 9:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, Insider


Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Nikola Tesla used to say: Bob’s your uncle! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, August 15 2019, at a price of $10,311. That’s a respectable 2.72 percent increase in 24 hours, or $273. It was the highest closing price in one day. We’re still 48 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day…

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Tech journalist breaks first rule of holding cryptocurrency, loses $30,000

Aug16
by on August 16, 2019 at 8:56 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


It’s never funny when someone is scammed or robbed of their cryptocurrency. It’s especially bad when the victim is at the mercy of attackers and seemingly can’t do anything to get their money back. That’s the situation tech journalist Monty Munford has been left in after losing over $30,000 (£25,000) worth of cryptocurrency. The writer and journalist shared his account with the BBC as a warning to Bitcoin beginners who might be thinking about making their first step in to, as Munford put it, “the murky world of cryptocurrency investment.” How Munford lost his cryptocurrency is painfully simple and it boils down to breaking…

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