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JANUARY 23, 2017

While still volatile, and trying to shake the seedier side of its reputation, digital currency bitcoin has come a long way in a few short years. 20), Grayscale Investments LLC — a unit of tech entrepreneur Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group Inc. Bitcoin’s current estimated market cap is over $14.5

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JANUARY 31, 2018

In one of the bigger back-and-forth stories in digital currency, South Korea has announced that it is definitely for real this time sure that it does not plan to ban crypto-currency exchanges. That news comes care of the government’s finance minister and came as welcome news for crypto investors nationwide.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Bitcoin has gained 260 percent since April but didn’t quite hit its previous all-time high of $20,000 in December of 2017. . bonds due to softening worldwide economic growth, and they are turning more and more to digital currencies, which is also fueling growth. . As of around 2 p.m. EDT the coin was down 16.13

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MARCH 31, 2017

While the debate stems from differing ideologies on block size , the controversy calls into question the ability of a digital currency without a central authority to update and innovate itself in any meaningful way. The estimated market cap is at just over $16.6 At the time of writing, one bitcoin was worth $1,023.68, down 1.61

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MAY 12, 2017

It’s a crazy amount of growth — up a full 81 percent since the beginning of 2017 and nearly triple (299 percent) the value at this time last year. The digital currency’s market cap stood at just under $30 billion with some 16.3 The total crypto-market cap has grown from $27.8 million in circulation.

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MAY 14, 2019

A 60 percent surge in a month – for anything, really, be it stock or bond or digital currency – is nothing to sneeze at, but it could be something to see with wonder. The recent market cap at $250 billion has not been seen since August of 2018. Fundamentals? Or merely a blip? Or to make one wonder why.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

The price of the popular digital currency spent the week climbing back up after fears that China could crack down on its domestic exchanges caused its value to slump. The past few days have seen bitcoin rising at a similar rate seen in late December and into early 2017. Bitcoin’s current estimated market cap is over $14.5

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The bitcoin market cap was over $18.5 Locations on the radar for new Coinsource ATMs in 2017, according to Sharp, included in Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., By the end of 2017, I think we could potentially be in 15–20 states,” Sharp said. On Thursday (Feb. percent over Wednesday’s close. machines per week.

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MARCH 17, 2017

The prospect of a bitcoin ETF had investors betting big on digital currency, with many seeing SEC approval as a major milestone on the journey toward bitcoin legitimacy. and Europe if financial innovators aren’t allowed to bring products to market that grow domestic demand for digital currencies like bitcoin?”.

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MAY 15, 2017

Take a look at this chart from the 2017 Symantec report on ransomware. billion at the time — or slightly more than 11 percent of its $14 billion market cap then. Experts believe that number could double again in 2017. Maybe they didn’t see its potential use case as a global currency for crime, or chose not to.

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