Trading bitcoin

Bitcoin Futures and Options Exchange 'Deribit' Announces Zero-Fee Trading

The removal of trading fees on Deribit for rest of the year now allows traders to make more than usual profits. Interested traders can register here. Deribit is a Bitcoin-only derivatives exchange for vanilla options and futures trading. Deribit has been ... read more

Bitcoin Is Soaring: Up Over 10% In One Week On Chinese Buying Spree

Earlier this week, we pointed out that after tracking the recent drop in the Yuan (alternatively, rise in the dollar), bitcoin unexpectedly spiked breaking out of its recent rangebound trade and rising to three month highs following news that China had ... read more 

Swiss railway ticket machines to sell Bitcoin digital currency

Switzerland's national rail service (SBB) plans to start selling the digital currency Bitcoin at stations next month. From 11 November, customers will be able to trade Swiss francs for Bitcoins using ticket machines. They will not be able to buy tickets ... read more

Five Reasons Why Bitcoin Price Will Reach $1000 in 2017

Few factors that may lead to over 40 percent increase in the price are: Bitcoin is increasing being used as a medium of value exchange than a financial instrument for long-term investments. Even though the cryptocurrency was originally created for the ... read more

Metric Shows Bitcoin Trading Volumes, Users, App Downloads Grow In Nigeria

Interest in the world’s top digital currency Bitcoin is growing rapidly in Nigeria, says an official of BitX which recently announced that its smart wallet hit 100,000 downloads on Google Play. BitX is one of the three most popular Bitcoin exchanges ... read more

Bitcoin Prices Roar Past $700 But Zcash Steals The Show

In anticipation of the launch, nascent Zcash futures markets saw robust trading. The pairs, which traded against bitcoin prior to the release of zerocoins, rose from a low of 0.027 BTC ($18.50) on 15th September to 0.78 BTC ($535) on 28th October. read more

Bitcoin set for best week since June on strong Chinese demand

Bitcoin rose almost nine percent through the week and was trading at $688.40 as of 14:17 GMT on Friday. That’s the biggest gain since June when its value rose with the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. Investors turned to the digital currency as a ... read more

Deribit Removes Futures Trading Fees for year-End Promotion

Deribit, a bitcoin futures and options exchange platform, has removed all trading fees for the rest of 2016 as part of a promotion to drive more customers to the service. Disclaimer: This article is sponsored by Bitcoin PR Buzz. Deribit CMO Marius Jansen ... read more

Burned Users of South Florida's Cryptsy Bitcoin Exchange May Get $1 Million Settlement

When his Bitcoin exchange went under last year, Cryptsy CEO Paul Vernon left the company's headquarters in Delray Beach and fled to China with his mistress. Things weren't great — his marriage was over, his company was kaput, and his customers were pissed. read more

Homeless man, Veteran, finds 30k BTC on hard drive!

The decision to turn down money in exchange for inspecting a computer and hard drive ... I plugged it into my computer and there was a folder labeled “Bitcoin”. I opened it and there was a text file with a “master key” and a bitcoin address. read more