February 15, 2018
3:10 PM
Expertise: FOREX
Jason Van Steenwyk is a veteran financial industry, defense and technology journalist who has been writing professionally since 2000. His bylines have appeared in WealthManagement.com, Mutual Funds, Seeking Alpha, Nasdaq.com, Senior Market Advisor, Life and Health Pro, Global Investor Spotlight, Nerdwallet, and many other outlets. He is an avid fiddler and guitarist, and currently lives in Orlando, Florida.
Recent Articles
February 05, 2018
9:33 PM
Cryptocurrency Markets Falling as Governments, Banks Tighten Up
It’s getting ugly in the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin hit nearly $20,000 at its heady December 18th peak. But latecomers to the market have gotten a nasty shearing, with bitcoin prices falling to as low as $7,614 on Friday. We’ve seen a bit of a bounce back over the weekend, as bitcoin is selling for $8,335.52 […]January 29, 2018
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$500 Million in Crypto Assets Stolen From Coincheck Exchange. Market Shrugs.
Security is still a serious issue in the cryptocurrency world. Japanese investors who awoke Friday morning to check their crypto portfolios at Coin check, a major exchange in that country, would have found that cybercriminals had broken into the system and stole more than 58 billion yen worth of NEM coin. That amounts to over […]January 23, 2018
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Cryptocurrencies Plunge on Release of Two Big Negative Reports
It’s been a rough week for bitcoin. A week ago, the oldest digital currency was sitting at $14,000. As of Monday morning, January 22nd, it’s at $10,639. But that only hurts the Johnny-come-latelies. If you bought bitcoin before December 1, you’re still sitting on a profit for all those transactions. As of this writing, anyway. […]January 10, 2018
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Ripple Gets a Haircut and Crypto Currencies in Pension Funds? Don’t Laugh
Well, it was fun while it lasted. But Ripple, the runaway ROI winner for 2017 with a 35,000 percent return, is starting to give back some of those gains. Ripple dropped more than 25 percent on Monday, and as of press time, mid-afternoon on the 9th January, has shed another 11 percent so far today. […]December 12, 2017
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Bitcoin Futures Surge in CBOE Debut
Bitcoin is continuing its phenomenal upward march, trading at $16,7300 as of this writing (mid-day Monday, December 11th Bitcoin prices got a boost over the weekend, rising 20 percent on Sunday as bitcoin futures got their debut on the Chicago Board of Exchange Futures Exchange. The product is apparently popular: Visitors swamped the CBOE website, […]September 26, 2017
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Bitcoin Bruised but Unbroken After Jamie Dimond Attack
Bitcoin prices are still off this month, after speculators suffered a one-two-three punch combination that rattled crypto markets earlier this month. First, the Chinese government essentially banned ICOs within the country, sending bitcoin prices plummeting to 40 percent below their all-time highs – not that we haven’t seen that before. Then on Wednesday of last […]September 19, 2017
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Blockchain Technology: The Root of the Cryptocurrency Revolution
Blockchain, the brainchild of an elusive programmer and computer expert who goes by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, appears poised to enable the Internet to make a quantum leap. Blockchain technology makes it possible for information to be transmitted without being directly copied. This is the innovation that is at the root of the cryptocurrency revolution. […]September 13, 2017
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