CoinSalad.com keeps track of all the major Bitcoin exchanges on the market that provide users with the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin. Exchanges are key players in the Bitcoin network as not only do they provide on-ramps and exit-ramps for users, they provide a marketplace for trading, liquidity, and price discovery. Of the top …
Add Bitcoin prices to your website or app using our Simple Bitcoin Price API
If you want to go beyond Bitcoin price widgets where you can add and customize your own Bitcoin prices to your website or app using an API, we currently offer a simple Bitcoin Price API solution for you. We have a simple REST-style API that can be used to get Bitcoin price information to add …
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Track Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) halvings use these countdown clocks
Bitcoin which forked in 2017 into two chains, Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), both are set to halve every four years. This major milestone for each chain reduces the block rewards in half. Keeping track of both halving events is easy by checking these two pages, which both track the halving events separately for …
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Swap your cryptocurrency from one coin to another using instant coin exchange
Recently Coinsalad.com added a new instant cryptocurrency exchange that allows anyone in the world to convert their cryptocurrency from one coin to another and vice versa. The concept is really simple and the process is easy. Let’s say you have Bitcoin (BTC) and want to convert it to Ethereum (ETH). You don’t need to sell …
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U.S. Justice Department launches probe into Bitcoin exchanges and price manipulation
The United States Justice Department has opened a criminal probe that looks to investigate whether Bitcoin traders are manipulating the prices of Bitcoin and other digital currencies. According to sources familiar with the matter who asked not to be named, they said the investigation is focused on illegal practices that can influence prices such as spoofing …
LocalBitcoins exchange begins process to start KYC/AML checking trader accounts
LocalBitcoins.com is a popular Bitcoin exchange within the Bitcoin network because of it’s peer-to-peer exchange setup, where there is no intermediary as there is normally with other exchanges where the exchange itself acts as a centralized third-party to facilitate trades. In a post yesterday on social media, LocalBitcoins traders began warning each other that if …
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13 Bitcoin related exchanges are named in New York Attorney General’s probe
In an interesting turn of events, the State of New York Attorney’s General has named 13 Bitcoin related exchanges that they will be investigating in a probe to attempt to “improve transparency and accountability of major cryptocurrency trading platforms.” The letter sent from Attorney General Schneiderman names the following exchanges: (1) Coinbase, Inc. (GDAX) (2) …
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The Bitcoin bull run of 2018 has started
Yesterday the price of Bitcoin started to climb from slumbering numbers around $6000 to well above $7000, and as of this morning the price has exceeded the $8000 marker breaking the 20-day moving average. At this time it’s not fully clear what the cause of the bull run could be, but it probably has to …
Bitcoin Cash is hard forking to upgrade to a 32MB block size in May
Bitcoin Cash which is the coin that diverged from the main Bitcoin chain in August 2017 where it initially started with a 8MB max block size, is forking in May 2018 to increase the max block size to 32MB. The scheduled upgrade is set for May 15, 2018 where one of the main Bitcoin Cash …
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The Bitcoin fork for 2X block size increase has been cancelled
The much anticipated block size increase of 2X on the main Bitcoin chain has been formally cancelled, calling off the fork just one week before it was set to activate. Yesterday there was a lot of commotion in the Bitcoin space as the SegWit2X fork which caused a lot of hype prior to yesterday was …
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