Although Bitcoin has not seen much of an increase in the number of transactions on the network in 2017, the value of those transactions has skyrocketed.

Many ideas for better privacy in Bitcoin have been floated over the years, but none of them have been implemented into the core protocol or gained widespread use. However, the way in which enhanced privacy could potentially come to Bitcoin has become clearer over time.

For anyone who has been paying attention to digital asset onramp Coinbase over the past year or so, it’s obvious that the company has fallen in love with Ethereum and Bitcoin is no longer the main area of focus. During the recent DFJ Summit, angel investor and This Week in Startups Host Jason Calacanis asked Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong to explain why his love for Bitcoin has faded.

Testing out the http://Bitcoin.com  wallet after seeing the hysteria on /r/Bitcoin. Some notes:
-It’s a copy/paste of @BitPay’s wallet. @amitbitcoin also did this to perpetuate his Ponzi scheme.
-Got a network error when creating my wallet, so this is where my review ends.

Unlike coal or copper – mining in the digital bitcoin world is open to anyone with an internet connection and the suitable hardware

Doomsday preppers in North America bet on bitcoin
Cryptocurrency is starting to impinge on gold’s appeal

As it turns out, there was a bug in the Segwit2x software which caused the client to stop at block 494782. In this article, I’m going to examine the details of what caused the software to stop, why it stopped a block before it was supposed to and what would have happened had Belshe, et al, not cancelled the hard fork a week early.

Bitcoin’s seemingly unstoppable bull run continued as it passed $8,000 for the first time around 6pm UTC yesterday (Nov. 19). The price has been flirting with $8,000 for days, probably because several signs point to the long promised arrival of institutional money in the cryptocurrency markets.

Hong Kong’s bitcoin entrepreneurs say they have been forced to open bank accounts overseas to operate their businesses, after local banks froze or closed their accounts, threatening the city’s push to become a fintech hub.

what are the odds someone immediately converts their BTC to the sidechain and gets most of the 21 coin limit then sells it at a higher price due to the limit in place?

This month’s edition of Forbes Argentina featured Bitcoin, and their interview with Xapo creator Wences Caseres, as their front page cover.

Standpoint Research raises its 2018 price target for bitcoin to $14,000 from $11,000, representing nearly 70 percent upside to its current price level.
“An argument can be made that the good news is still not fully reflected in the current price,” the firm’s analyst writes.

Square announced it’s piloting a program that would allow users to buy and sell bitcoin in its app. That could offer substantial revenue potential for Square, plus offer some much needed legitimacy for crypto assets.

It seems that Christmas is all set to come early this year for Bitcoin investors. World’s largest derivatives marketplace - CME Group - has officially announced last month that it will soon be starting Bitcoin Futures contract by the end of this year. Now as per their website, the official date of launch has been locked on December 10 as the trading for the futures contract will begin the very next day on December 11.

All told, I have spoken with more than one hundred investors that were interested in or already owned a cryptocurrency. I haven’t heard, “I’m replacing my gold” or “I’m worried about inflation.” I did hear the word hedge one time, but the speaker was a very sophisticated investor.

Bitcoin soared to a record on Sunday, touching $8,100 briefly for the first time according to CoinDesk. While investors worry over the cryptocurrency being in a bubble, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne explained why he’s optimistic, during an appearance on FOX Business’ “Mornings with Maria.”

Bitcoin hasn’t found its killer app, but that might not matter.

LedgerX just initiated its first long-term bitcoin futures option.

The value of the cryptocurrency market has surged this year, rising more than 1,200%.

In this opinion piece, Mallers argues CME Group’s plan to offer bitcoin futures will benefit the futures trading industry and the bitcoin community alike – notwithstanding hand-wringing in both worlds about the idea.

At Golix we like to count our blessings and for us its easy because for the 2 years that we’ve been around, we’ve had significant growth every single month. We’re just in the middle of the month, this November but we’ve already exceeded our last month’s volume. Even in the face of our ‘Government Soft Fork Uncertainty’, we continue choose to not be distracted and focus on growth. In the last 48 hours we have made over 5 times the revenue we used to make a few months ago;

“Bitfinex is solvent and both fiat and crypto withdrawals are functioning as normal. We are seeing increasing FUD which we believe is a co-ordinated attack to create a market disrupting event”
“Always ask for evidence before drawing conclusions. We are grateful to those who have defended against these reckless allegations. A formal announcement is forthcoming.”

Mining for virtual currencies like bitcoin may not be as messy as its real-world equivalent, but the supply of electricity needed to cool the massive computing power that produces the currency means it has also developed a reputation for harming the environment.

DRUG dealers who buy bulk quantities of illegal drugs on the so-called “dark web” are not the “highly sophisticated” cyber crims they think they are, and are somewhere closer to “amateur hour” suburban crooks, a court has heard.

The pills or their component parts come to the United States from either Mexico or China, officials say. In Mexico, cartels process the pills and ship them over the southwest border. Chemicals needed to make the pills are typically bought via the dark web from China. When the chemicals reach the United States, many of the fake pills are created in home operations, akin to the meth labs that proliferated about a decade ago.

Stakeholders in the burgeoning market for initial coin offerings (ICOs) have reached consensus: the practice of presales needs to be reformed.

Bitcoin Gold is a fork of Bitcoin, sharing its history up until the block height 491407 (around October 24, 6 am UTC). If you have held bitcoins on TREZOR before this block, you will have the same bitcoin gold balance as your bitcoin balance (at the time of the fork).

Smart contracts will solve all of life’s other problems.

Venture capital’s creative new way of cashing in on the initial coin offering bonanza, SAFTs are becoming increasingly popular. Here’s what they are.

Editor’s note: The author, a freelance writer in the U.K., has an account at Trading 212 and was in the BCH market on Nov. 12.

TL;DR: No matter how much money you make in Bitcoin don’t tell anyone about it. Just explain the benefits of block-chain technology and stop there.

This year has been insanely hectic in the cryptocurrency space, and so it is important to sometimes take a step back and look at the big picture. Let’s start from the beginning: What is Bitcoin for?

You’re sitting down to a nice meal and your aunt, always one step ahead, mentions she wants to start investing in Bitcoin. You freeze, a drip of gravy plopping off the ladle. It’s your time to shine.

Survivalists think bitcoin could outlast the apocalypse.