16th January 2020 Before we dive into this weeks Weekly Rundown, I’d like to take the time to announce that our regular author, Julian Carruthers, has decided that today will be his last weekly publishment. The team at Mining Store are forever grateful for his contributions to all 26 of our Weekly Rundown’s & wish...Continue Reading

7th January 2020 This week we cover: UK’S FIRST CRYPTO BANK VIRGIL GRIFFITH RELEASED ON $1M BAIL YOUTUBE GOES TO WAR ON CRYPTO CONTENT CHINESE PRESSURE CRYPTO BUSINESSES CHINESE FIRST BLOCKCHAIN ETF CHINESE POLICE SEIZE THOUSANDS OF MINERS CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY DONATIONS DLIVE, TRON, BITTORRENT MIGRATION & PARTNERSHIP BTC TECHNICAL ANALYSIS FEAR, GREED AND MENTALITY...Continue Reading

29th OCTOBER 2019 NI HAO BITCOIN & BLOCKCHAIN Coming straight out of China is the biggest news for the week … and possibly even the year. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, spoke at the 18th collective study on Thursday in Beijing  (turn...Continue Reading

22nd OCTOBER 2019 FED PRINTING BITCOIN MARKETCAP EQUIVALENT When Bitcoin was sitting around $7.9K USD earlier this week, its market cap was sitting close to $140 billion. As reported by Bitcoinist, in just two days last week, the US Federal Reserve “…has continued its streak of quantitative easing, by pouring in funds to uphold the...Continue Reading

15th OCTOBER 2019 VITALIK STRIVING FOR MOST SECURE CHAIN This week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin made a bold statement at Devcon 5 that after Ethereum transitions to Proof of Stake (PoS) “…the cost of a potential attack would make Ethereum the safer network of the two”, with bitcoin being the other. The switch from the...Continue Reading

8th OCTOBER 2019 BITCOIN OUTPERFORMS … EVERYTHING The proof is in the numbers. Bitcoin is currently 2019’s best performing asset, even after the recent pullback to $8.2K USD from the high just shy of $13K USD achieved in June. Goldman Sachs deems Bitcoin “the best performing asset class of the year-to-date …(where)… prices have more...Continue Reading

1st OCTOBER 2019 RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA (RBA) CUTS INTEREST RATES TO HISTORIC LOW  The official interest rate has been cut yet again by the RBA to a new record low of 0.75%. The cut of 0.25% follows similar an earlier cut in July. RBA Governor Philip Lowe highlighted the following points in his post-meeting...Continue Reading

24th SEPTEMBER 2019 HASHING IT OUT On 18th September, Blockchain.com reported Bitcoin’s network hashrate hit a record-breaking high of 102 quintillion hashes for the first time ever. Canadian crypto researcher and well-known analyst Kevin Rooke commented that, “Difficulty is projected to grow 60% this quarter, and it was already at an all-time high when Q2...Continue Reading

18th SEPTEMBER 2019 THE ALLURE OF A DOLLAR COST AVERAGE I’ve talked about dollar cost average approaches to investment plans before – which refers to assigning a fixed investment at a fixed interval over a long period. For example, $100 a week, every week for two years. This approach can work particularly well for those...Continue Reading

2 AUGUST 2019 IS FACEBOOK BACKING OUT OF LIBRA? Libra has had a less than ideal first few weeks in the spotlight. US Congress has made it abundantly clear that anything other than regulatory perfection from Calibra and Facebook would end with fines and legal proceedings. CNBC reported this week that Facebook admit the launch...Continue Reading