The Bitcoin prices briefly surpassed the $4800 mark for the first time yesterday, recording an all-time new high. As per the Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) of CoinDesk, the prices went up as much as $4,802.40 before falling to the previous record marks in the digital coin trading.

Kik Interactive has announced on Tuesday the launch of the sale of its own cryptocurrency in two weeks. The sale of the cryptocurrency ‘Kin’ is expected to raise $125 million.

The trading platforms have posted the cryptocurrency market cap, which has passed for the first time $160 billion mark. There are market activity and growth as revealed from the Coinmarketcap and Coin Dance data in the week ending August 26.

Russia has all of a sudden announced its plans to ban sales on cryptocurrency. The Russian deputy finance minister Alexey Moiseev said it's hard to argue that cryptocurrency is not a pyramid scheme.

Litecoin has hit the double jackpot with crossing two milestones at a time, passing $60 mark, at $64 and a $3 billion market cap for the first time. The digital currency prices have surged in 24 hours, reaching a new all-time high, after a month of sideways trading.

North Korea is a lot in the news recently, and all for not so good reasons. The reports of the country performing cyber-attacks against South Korean Bitcoin exchanges are coming in.

Bitcoin prices went down 2% today, on Saturday, after falling below $4,300. The prices went down after slightly touching its all-time high.

Burger King has joined the rat race to launch its own digital currency in Russia, where cryptocurrency game is still on. According to the local reports, the Russian subdivision of Burger Kind has launched its own cryptocurrency called “Whoppercoin”.

The cryptocurrency market cap has set a new record, as the combined trading value has surpassed $150 billion. The combined value of Ether, Bitcoin and other blockchain based assets reached an all time high of around $154 billion.

According to the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA), it received as many as 50 Bitcoin exchanges applications as of August 2017. Currently, the applications are being reviewed for compliance.

Bitcoin prices are back below the $4,000 mark. After recording its peak high, the average prices across global exchanges started declining on August 22. The prices continued slipping down, after opening at $150 below for the day. The currency trading at $3,894, its lower since August 15, when the price hit as low as $3,892.

As per the reports, the Central Bank of the Philippines gave out two licenses to the two local Bitcoin exchanges.

Ever since the digital currency records its all-time high, its value has been trading between $4,050 to $4,200 range. The currency is averaged at $4,109 across the exchanges around the globe.

Australia has introduced a new bill that will regulate the cryptocurrency exchanges in the country. The government has presented the draft law in a bid to strengthen the country’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act and to support the Australian Transactions and Reporting Analysis Centre (Austrac).

Bitcoin Cash has broken all the range-bound market trend that has surrounded the currency, as its value hits past $400.

AMD, one of the biggest graphics card (GPU) making company is going to release software which would be exclusively for cryptocurrency mining.

London Police have shut down a boiler room recently in the city that was on a hunt to victimise people by calling them and pressurising them to invest in a fraudulent cryptocurrency that never existed.

The cryptocurrency legalisation bill in Russia is further delayed by the officials involved with the frame work of the state legislature in the country.

The Ukraine's National Bank of has recently announced that the legal status of the cryptocurrency; specifically, Bitcoin would be decided by the end of August. In a statement released by the deputy chairman Oleg Churiy, the Financial Stability Council (FSC) will decide on the legal status of bitcoin and its regulation by the end of August 2017.

In what seems to be the booming time for the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin crossed the $4000 mark today. The currency proved the predictions of the Bitcoin price prediction pundit, Vinny Lingham by hitting the exact price marks.