It’s time for your Friday coin rundown. Here are your coins. Bitcoin market cap $172,374,936,923 Earlier today Goldman Sachs indicated their displeasure with Bitcoin, suggesting
The beautiful thing about bitcoin and cryptocurrency is that their progress mirrors the natural world in many different ways. The first, and really the only
It’s pizza day today, and we discuss what that means for you and for bitcoin today. So now it’s time for your Friday coin rundown.
Voyager Digital Canada (VYGR.C) partnered earlier this month with regulatory cost basis processing solution provider, Silver Cost Basis, to deliver year-end cryptocurrency gain/loss statements for
CoinPayments, a crypto payment processor based on the Cayman Islands, penned a deal with Shopify (SHOP.NYSE) that will result in its platforms integrated, bringing more
DMG Blockchain Solutions (DMGI.V) has energized their new miners post-halving, and added a new director. We entered into Bitcoin’s great third age earlier this week
Bitcoin halved for the third time in its history earlier today, reducing its block reward from 12.5 to 6.25 BTC per closed block. Beyond the
Bitcoin’s third halving is due in a matter of days, and the majority of the crypto sphere is holding its breath waiting for it to
We get a lot of clients wanting to be written about on Mondays because that’s when everyone drops their good news. I usually try to
If ever you needed some proof of the logic that altcoin fluctuations follow Bitcoin’s fate, you have it this week. The only exception to this
Cryptomining comes in three different types. The first and most obvious is through ASIC chips or application-specific integrated circuits. They’re the wall to wall computers
Riot Blockchain (RIOT.Q) picked up 1,000 Bitmain S19 Antminers for $2.4 million from Bitmain earlier this week putting them firmly in line towards surviving Bitcoin’s
Big movie theaters will time their release of summertime blockbusters to coincide with movies they think they can beat at the box office. That way
BTCS (BTCS.OTC) has strengthened its cash position by $500,000 in a convertible note financing to take advantage of the tricky economic situation caused by COVID-19.
A new crypto derivatives exchange known as Alpha5 is planning to launch in the next two months. Backed by Polychain Capital, Alpha5 plans to offer
On April 20, 2020, Taal Distributed Information Technologies (TAAL.C) entered into a 10-year strategic licensing agreement with nChain Group Holdings to use key elements of
Last month, Bitcoin’s price cratered because the coronavirus caused Chinese authorities to shut the country down, effectively making it impossible for miners to get to
Hive Blockchain Technologies (HIVE.V) closed its previous announced acquisition of the dedicated cryptocurrency mining operation in Lachute, Quebec from Cryptologic (CRY.C) today. Don’t you love
Cryptostar (CSTR.V) has signed an LOI with an Alberta based private energy company for 120 megawatts at among the lowest electricity rates in North America
DMG Blockchain Solutions (DMGI.V) has increased both their own mining and their hosted mining capacity by adding next generation ASIC technology to meet the new
World governments started paying serious attention to Bitcoin around the time of Mt.Gox and when Dread Pirate Roberts rode the Silk Road straight to jail.
If you’re involved or invested anywhere in the cryptocurrency space, then you know that the Bitcoin halving is the biggest event on everyone’s minds. If
The bitcoin halving is coming and it’s anybody guess as to what companies are going to survive. The game is going to get a lot
Interlapse Technologies (INLA.V) bought BuyBitcoinCanada.com, a virtual currency brokerage platform from Bitaccess Inc., a Canadian blockchain company, in an all share deal today. This move
Digital Farms, the crypto mining subsidiary of DPW Holdings (DPW.NYSE), has permanently closed its doors crying about the hashrate, even despite market recovery. The idea
Bitcoin’s volatility is hard to gauge. Minor spikes and dips happen all the time, and what cryptocurrency enthusiasts consider to be minor are catastrophic and
Blockchain-based Future FinTech Group (FTFT.Q) entered into a non-binding equity acquisition agreement with Joyrich Enterprises Limited to acquire 51% interest in Nice Talent Asset Management
All the focus so far has been on Bitcoin’s price cratering earlier this week due to the coronavirus, and the fates of bitcoin dependent companies.
When the savings and loan crisis in the US hit in 1989, a lot of slow-moving investors lost their dough thinking the worst couldn’t possible
Bitcoin is supposed to be a safe-haven currency. When the markets go to shit like they are today, in theory people evacuate their traditional positions
Hive Blockchain (HIVE.V) announced the expansion of its GPU base digital currency mining facility in Sweden today. It’s only 65 days to the Bitcoin halving,
The Bank of Canada has said that issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) isn’t in the cards right now, but they haven’t ruled it
Two child-rape perverts killed themselves after the darknet’s “largest-known site of child exploitation videos” was busted. The South Korean website operator is in prison and
Mastercard (MA.NYSE) joined PayPal (PYPL.Q) and Visa (V.NYSE) with its announced exit from Facebook’s (FB.Q) Libra support group today, leaving the once famed project listing
Facebook’s (FB.Q) Libra project endured another wild setback in France when Finance Minister, Bruno LeMaire, put the kibosh on Zuckerberg’s cryptocurrency dreams. We’ve been talking
Paxos Trust Company launched PAX Gold, the first crypto-asset redeemable for physical gold today. PAX Gold is an asset-backed digital token, each representing one fine
Cryptocurrency token exchange, Hyperion Technologies, acquired two blockchain technology products from Vanbex Labs, which is presently being investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, proposed an overhaul of the global financial system in favour of a stablecoin like Facebook’s (FB.Q)
Overstock.com (OSTK.Q) subsidiary, tZERO, now offers Ravencoin on their mobile wallet, and the real question is – why? The wireless app already uses Bitcoin and
DPW Holdings (DPW.NYSE) jumped 157% after its subsidiary, Digital Power Lending, completed their beta testing of its fintech portal today. The fintech site is MonthlyInterest.com,
Facebook’s (FB.Q) stock price has cratered by more than $20 in the past two months on the back of privacy scandal after scandal. We can
Originally, Satoshi Nakamoto intended Bitcoin to act as a hedge against the greed and incompetence of central bankers, which he saw as central to most
Nvidia’s (NVDA.Q) new RTX Studio laptops are helping the company climb back to form after a bad fall in 2018 featuring a class-action lawsuit for
While the hype around Libra and Bitcoin’s latest run is drawing everyone’s attention, there are real no-bullshit blockchain companies making big strides towards mainstream acceptability.
The advent of cryptocurrency has given rise to ancillary companies piggybacking off of its success. These companies have either sought to capitalize on the opportunity
So Donald Trump doesn’t like Libra, Bitcoin or cryptocurrency in general. Does anyone remember when the United States President was someone to be admired and
More hacks this week are troubling crypto exchanges and Facebook’s Libra is turning heads, including the 45th when he isn’t glued to Fox and Friends.
The canon goes that blockchain technology was invented in 2009 by an unknown programmer named Satoshi Nakamoto. He added a white paper, which reads like
Another seven days have passed and the crypto-currency world remains on a tear, particularly a digital coin that everybody, including its creators, thought was a
The cryptocurrency markets are considered to be the wild west of trading and it’s a well-earned distinction. Normally if you’re a little light on your
Bitcoin had already begun its ascendancy in September 2017, pushing well over USD$5,000, so it was big news when Frank Giustra-backed HIVE Blockchain Technologies (HIVE.V)
Facebook’s (FB.Q) recently announced cryptocurrency, Libra, is the biggest thing in the cryptosphere right now. One of the strengths of cryptocurrency include its ability to
This is the last segment of Crypto 101 and I hope you’ve found some value in it. Today we’re going to be covering a cross
We discussed exchanges and what role they pay in the cryptocurrency investment ecosystem in last week’s Deciphering Cryptocurrency. Next up is wallets and security. You
The crackdown on crypto went into full swing this month as the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) launched a lawsuit against Canadian-based Kik Interactive for
We started writing about Blockchain Foundry (BCFN.C) in the summer of last year when blockchain companies were busy doing the rope-a-dope from frequent market poundings. They
We’ll be focusing on cryptocurrency 101 for the next few weeks, and specifically how to get involved and what due diligence looks like for the
Cryptocurrency is a hard sell for most people. The average person isn’t interested in things like censorship resistance, immutability, security, peer-to-peer services and other things
Blockchain Foundry (BCFN.C) entered into the first first phase of a blockchain development and marketing agreement with blockchain-based real estate lending firm Noteblock today. Noteblock
Blockchain’s a dense topic with a lot of moving parts that can be confusing to the uninitiated. It’s one of those topics that you never
Whiteblock, a blockchain testing platform, has released its transactions per second speed results for Blockchain Foundry’s (BCFN.C) patent-pending Zero Confirmation Acyclic Graph (Z-Dag) technology built
There is lots of speculation about why Bitcoin is up this week ranging from an insecure reaction to Trump’s trade war with China, to new
Bitcoin has climbed up to five digits for the first time since July 2018. This is excellent news for investors and crypto-holders, who have been
Blockchain Foundry (BCFN.C), the enterprise blockchain company behind Syscoin (SYS), has filed a patent application in the United States for its new scalability technology designed
The narrative on the revolutionary properties of blockchain is old and tired. Its distributed ledger system will not solve every problem, nor revolutionize every business;
I’ve been hanging with the crypto kiddies for a few months now and sold the bulk of my holdings on the spike late last week.
In 2015, when we started this outfit, our business model was to steer clear of conventional wisdom and the same old pubco marketing techniques, and
After all the kicks cryptocurrency, and Bitcoin in particular, has taken in the past year, some might find it hard to believe there are companies
After an already success-filled year, CUV Ventures (CUV.V) finally crossed a financial goal line with RevoluPAY. RevoluPAY, CUV’s subsidiary, processed its first USD $25,000 worth
Good trading ideas naturally bubble to the surface if you spend enough time watching the markets. So it was last Sunday when I felt the
2019 will mark the ten year anniversary of crypto-currency being a thing, and oh what a wild ride it’s been! But what’s more important than
The markets haven’t exactly looked kindly on blockchain over the past year. Don’t listen to the zealots and true believers on message boards, the hype
When someone says the word blockchain, what comes to mind? If you’re like me, it’s investors pulling out their hair, rending their clothes, or regretting
If you’ve been to a Cambridge House investor conference or two, you’ve probably seen your share of public company CEOs presenting their investor decks and
The MVIS Crypto Digital Assets 10 Index tracks the performance of the 10 largest and most liquid digital assets including bitcoin. In 2018 it has
Investors like to complain. “This company sucks, they never talk to investors.” “Insiders know about early financings and we’re always left out.” “Does anybody know
With the blockchain sector still not being discussed in polite company after early 2018’s stock price meltdown, it’s easy to miss that companies are still
Consistent with their last six months of moves as a public company, HashChain Technology (KASH.V) has acquired two cryptocurrency mining companies, adding an additional 2,500
If I walked into the Cactus Club on Burrard Street with two supermodels on my arm and an eight ball in my pocket and $5k
We’ve been talking about CUV Ventures’ (CUV.V) plans to open a crypto-backed, blockchain-enabled, tourism/lending/remittance platform for some time, and for the most part you guys
Pity the 346 investors who saw former Goldman Sachs (GS:NYSE) macro trader Michael Novogratz launching his ‘crypto merchant bank’ Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY.V) in November of
On July 26, 2018, DMG Blockchain (DMGI.V) announced that it is installing an 85-megawatt capacity transformer and electrical substation to power the expansion of DMG’s
The crypto gurus at HIVE Blockchain (HIVE.V) posted financials for Q4 2018 today, and the documents make for interesting reading. While the big spotlight shines
On July 12, 2018 HashChain (KASH.V) announced that it has closed a deal for two cryptocurrency mining companies, “contributing an aggregate total of 5,000 more
Cryptobuyer Technologies, which had planned to amalgamate with Pontus Capital Corp and go public on the CSE, has canceled its move for a public listing
When you’re looking to tell the story of a public company in a way that will resonate with an audience, with a succinct, tagline-sized parable,
In the span of 13 days – from May 9 to May 22, 2018 Hashchain (KASH.V) announced four significant pieces of news [more on that
TD Mortgage Hike, AB Still Trying To Give BC The Pipe, Small Caps Are Snoozy, A New, Empty Throne In the Pot Sector, And A
US Treasuries YIELD, Blockchain & Gold Caught in the Draft The US markets, who are obsessed with round numbers, largely steadied themselves after the fallout
It’s been on a little rip the last few days while putting out ‘we have no idea why’ news releases, but Hashchain Technology (KASH.V) finally
When the first blockchain profit party ended last December, and companies that had been on an absolute tear of upward multiples began to turn the
When last we checked in with eXeBlock Technologies (XBLK.C), they were not exactly chatty. Maybe this is why: Alternately, maybe this is why: Exeblock (XBLK.C)
Every now and then a company comes along that wants to raise a whole whack of cash from you so they can do what you
Part of my job is to keep an eye on the news, and online chatter for under-reported news and analysis about our clients and the
when you ask Steve Marshall, CEO of CUV Ventures (CUV.V) about Cuba, he says, “It’s a lovely place. Great people. Lots of opportunity.” He doesn’t
After the Great Data Rush of 2017, the blockchain sector is cooling. Opportunistic companies like “Organic Blockchain Landscaping” and “Zesty Blockchain Pizza” are melting in
Icelandic cops are taking mugshots of eleven people they’ve arrested as part of the biggest theft in that nation’s history. But what was stolen wasn’t
There’s no way to properly know how important the health of HIVE Blockchain (HIVE.V) is for other companies in the blockchain sector, but just as
Some news to report on both DMGI.V and KASH.V today. Both are cryptominers who we cover regularly. Both of these fine companies also have the
There’s so much happening in Quebec in the areas we cover I thought it best to cover each one distinctly (no pun intended). This piece
