LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin has fared better than stocks but worse than gold and U.S. Treasuries during the coronavirus pandemic, with investors ascribing its performance to speculative bets and bids to hedge against inflation linked to stimulus measures. Enthusiasts have laid out numerous narratives for bitcoin as an investment proposition […]
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OAKLAND, Calif. — When Facebook unveiled its Libra cryptocurrency project last June, the social networking company described it as a futuristic global money that could serve as the foundation for a new kind of financial system. But on Thursday, Facebook and its partners rolled out a less ambitious design for […]
Sos Sosowski, designer of Mosh Pit Simulator, McPixel, and a piano that plays Doom, has a new browser game called Stock Jump. It takes real stock market data from the Finnhub Stock API, turns the graph of its plummeting value into a slope, then positions you at the top as […]
Representations of virtual currency Bitcoin are seen in this picture illustration taken taken March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin surged by more than a fifth on Friday amid high volatility across rebounding global markets, reversing some of its heavy losses from a day earlier but still leaving […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin plummeted on Thursday amid wild volatility in cryptocurrency markets, with traders citing a sell-off across assets as fears of the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic take hold. FILE PHOTO: Representations of the Ripple, Bitcoin, Etherum and Litecoin virtual currencies are seen on a PC motherboard […]
The stock-trading app Robinhood suffered an outage Monday for the third time in a week, frustrating users of the zero-fee tech startup who tried to place trades during the day’s market plunge. “Trading is currently down on Robinhood, and we’re investigating the issue,” the company said on one of its […]
(Bloomberg Opinion) — There was a time when Bitcoin earned its stripes as a safe asset in times of crisis or uncertainty. Now, it seems that a global disease outbreak has proven too much for the premier cryptocurrency, with prices plunging over the past month. Bloomberg Opinion first stumbled across the notion that Bitcoin […]
Do you really know who’s watching? Angela Lang/CNET You don’t want to be leaking your private information as you browse the web. The most popular browsers — from Chrome and Safari to Firefox — can help you keep your data away from prying eyes. But securing those web browsers may […]