One man put just £250 in this secret new bank account... And watched it grow to more than £886,000 You can now join a new underground banking system that’s been gaining popularity here in the United Kingdom. And what’s so incredible is how quickly a small deposit in this account can grow into a fortune – even in today’s ‘pay nothing’ interest world. One young man named Kevin Koch, for example, deposited just £250 into this new type of account. He told reporters about this amazing discovery, saying: “Every morning, I went online.. and saw that the account grew!” Kevin was absolutely stunned at his good fortune. Four months of growth and almost no effort on his part landed him more than £886,000. All from his initial deposit of less than £300. And here’s the thing... He didn't park his money in any risky foreign currency or off-shore bank. He didn’t buy stocks or anything else regular banks sold us in the past. In fact, what Kevin did w...
NEW YORK/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Bitcoin futures jumped more than 20 percent in their eagerly anticipated U.S. debut, which backers hope will encourage wider use and legitimacy for the world's largest cryptocurrency even as critics warn of the risk of a bubble and price collapse. The launch on Sunday night may have caused an early outage of the Chicago-based CBOE Global Markets' website. The exchange said that due to heavy traffic on the CBOE Global Markets website, the site "may be temporarily unavailable." The one-month bitcoin contract opened trade at 6 pm (2300 GMT) at $15,460, dipped briefly and then rose to a high of $18,700. As of 0630 GMT, it was up 17 percent from the open at $18,140, with 2,368 contracts traded. On the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp, bitcoin prices surged 9.6 percent to $16,100. It is up more than 1,400 percent so far in 2017, and its gains in the past month have been rapid. Experts had worried that the risks associated with the c...