The bitcoin price has continued its recent rally to rise another two per cent today.

The price of a single bitcoin reached a high of £374.04 ($546.85) in trading today, up more than 2.6 per cent, and was trading at £371.94 by 1pm (GMT), according to Coindesk.

Prices have risen by around 20 per cent since 28 May, following a surge in demand out of China.
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LONDON: The price of the web-based digital currency bitcoin soared to its highest in almost two years on Tuesday, rising to more than $500 per unit, as worries about a further weakening of the yuan drove increased demand from China .

Trading volumes on the Chinese bitcoin exchange BTCC surged to three to five times their daily average since Friday, according to CEO Bobby Lee , as Chinese savers have moved to protect their money against a further devaluation of the yuan.
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In a buying spree that began on Friday (May 27) and carried on through the four days since, Chinese investors managed to push the price of bitcoin up by 16 percent. As of the time this story was written, the price of an individual bitcoin was pushing $550.

All in, bitcoin has added $1.2 billion to its market cap, according to data from blockchain.info. Bitcoin is still trading well below its high point of a little over $1,100.

The bitcoin burst comes as Chinese investors are looking for new and more productive asset classes. Similar booms have recently been observed in equities, bonds and commodities trading — all with an accompanying deflation once the roving gang of investors moves on to the next big thing. The recent devaluation of the yuan has also motivated some Chinese consumers to seek bitcoin as a hedge against currency devaluation.
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Bitcoin buying in China suddenly increased in recent days. And make no mistake, China dominates world Bitcoin trading.

Many people don't realize China's importance to the Bitcoin ecosystem. Despite restrictions imposed in 2014, the Chinese government never banned Bitcoin outright. China-based Bitcoin miners account for about three-quarters of all Bitcoin miners.

Over the past 30 days, trading between Bitcoin and the Chinese yuan has accounted for 93% of all Bitcoin trades, according to Bitcoincharts.com. By comparison, trading between Bitcoin and the U.S. dollar accounted for just 6%.
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are there any bitcoin banks that give interest on deposits?

why is it Ernest and Young that have the keys ?

The U.S. government has seized $4.5 million from two Florida men who allegedly stole 5,400 bitcoins from illegal online drug sales site Sheep Marketplace in late 2013, shortly before the price of bitcoin hit its peak of around $1,200, according to forfeiture documents filed last week in Jacksonville, Florida.

The money was forfeited back in the spring of 2014, along with a 2012 Toyota Camry and a 2008 Honda motorcycle, by Nathan Gibson and Sean Mackert, who are both 24, but were 21 at the time of the heist.
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Bitcoin is back! Or at least, there are positive signs indicating that bitcoin might not be as dead as everybody thought. Bitcoins are now trading at $547.40 on Bitfinex (the largest USD/bitcoin exchange according to Bitcoinity). And it represents a big 21.4 percent price jump over just four days.

Today’s price represents a 21-month high. Surprisingly, bitcoin prices had been relatively stable for the last two months before this weekend’s jump.

What’s the reason behind this jump? It’s hard to say. Huobi and OKCoin, the two dominant Chinese exchanges, have seen many new sign-ups, as well as many buy orders.
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About $13m in bitcoins will be auctioned in Sydney in June after Victorian police confiscated the digital currency as proceeds of crime.

Ernst & Young is running the process, which is only the second such bitcoin auction in the world after the US Marshals Service sold 144,000 bitcoins over a two-year period that had been confiscated from Ross Ulbricht, who founded the online drug bazaar Silk Road, the accountancy firm’s transaction partner, Adam Nikitins, said.

Based on Tuesday’s single bitcoin price of $533.80, the cache of cryptocurrency is valued at almost $13.1m.
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A collection of bitcoins worth about £8m, which had been confiscated by police in Australia, will be auctioned off in June.

The 24,518 bitcoins will be sold mostly in blocks of 2,000 - each with a market value of about £680,000.

Ernst & Young, the firm organising the auction, said the bitcoins had been "confiscated as proceeds of crime" but did not elaborate on the case.

One expert said the authorities had chosen a "safe" time to sell.

Australian newspapers have previously reported that 24,500 bitcoins were seized by police in the state of Victoria in 2013, after a man was arrested for dealing illegal drugs online.

In 2015, Victoria's Asset Confiscation Operations department "confirmed it had recently taken possession of 24,500 coins and would try to make the most of it", according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Once you fork for this reason (or any other) it is no longer Bitcoin - it is an alt coin.  Everyone that wants to continue the cap will continue on the Bitcoin protocol just fine.  Everyone that want to use the newly created alt coin will use it until it falls to the wayside and loses all value just like a vast majority of all alt coins do.

This is Safe Dice, not prime dice..

has anyone invest in their bankroll? i mean is it profitable because most of them you win some satoshis at first and then you only lose

Pretty sure he's not stealing from users, just investors.

...I can even dig out post from 1970 if need be....

Is it a business reason? Or perhaps the complexity of bitcoin accounting creating potential issues?

What do you think?

... if so why companys cann use blockhain for their needs e.g. ibm and other companys  shoudnt they pay a commision to have the right to use the blockhain