Kim Dotcom has sketched out his vision for a “perfect cryptocurrency” that would be fast, cheap and popular enough to keep it outside the influence of the world’s largest financial institutions. Dotcom gave fans the broad strokes of his plan in a Twitter post, saying that high-speed transactions and low fees of a universal cryptocurrency would help transfer control from banks and corporations... 

Bitcoin has long beaten the price of gold which is the most valuable PHYSICAL currency in the world but but….. $10K? For a freaking VIRTUAL money? CASH OUT IMMEDIATELY while you still can! SURE, it may, or may NOT hit 15K, 20K, 30K or God knows how much but eventually this Bitcoin stuff is just an artificial virtual ponzi scheme bubble which will blow up some day. It will blow up one day and... 

Bitcoin is going to implode, repeating the fate of US energy and commodities giant Enron, Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said. “It just doesn’t make sense,” Alwaleed told CNBC’s Squawk Box program when asked about the prospects for Bitcoin. “This thing [Bitcoin] is not regulated, it’s not under control, it’s not under the supervision” of any central... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the issue of a national cryptocurrency, according to Communications Minister Nikolay Nikiforov, after a closed-door meeting. The minister said once the digital currency or CryptoRuble is issued other cryptocurrency mining will be banned and it will be entirely regulated by the government. “I am so confident to declare that we will run CryptoRuble just... 

The value of the world’s largest cryptocurrency bitcoin has broken the $5,800 mark, hitting another all-time high before retreating to the $5,600-$5,700 level, still close to the maximum. Its market capitalization is approaching $97 billion. If bitcoin were a company, its market cap puts it in the same league as some of the world’s top corporations. The cryptocurrency would be in 77th in PwC’s... 

The Jews arrested for the hundreds of bomb threats made against Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) across the U.S.—which Jewish groups falsely blamed on “anti-Semites”—were paid for their work through a bitcoin account, it has emerged. The Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported that police suspect the arrested Jews may have received payment for actions through a Bitcoin account found on one of the... 

The new Slur platform, an open source, decentralized marketplace for selling secret information for bitcoin, aims to protect whistleblowers by granting anonymity to both buyers and sellers, what WikiLeaks failed to do, the platform developer told RT. The Slur platform will have no restrictions on types of information that can be sold or the motives behind the selling, said Thom Lauret, spokesman for... 

There’s a bigger agenda happening with bitcoin that needs to be publicly stated, and this goes far beyond the issue of the financial harm that will be caused when the bitcoin bubble finally implodes. Central banks hate bitcoin. They hate it because it doesn’t allow them to loot bank accounts (Cyprus) and control the movement of capital around the globe. Bitcoin, in fact, threatens the very foundation... 

Already bigger than many sovereign currencies, Bitcoin has broken the $1 billion in value mark this week. In the wake of continuing economic crises and liquidity shortages, this new virtual currency is poised to challenge the euro and US dollar. By not being tied to any particular financial institution and independent from world governments, Bitcoin will become a safe haven for anyone trying to save...