Following yet another price surge in the past 24 hours, bitcoin neared and even briefly exceeded $48,000. The alternative coins are also well in the green, with ETH closing down to $3,300. However, AXS is the most significant gainer once more, with a 50% surge to a new ATH. Bitcoin Tapped $48K A lot can change in the cryptocurrency space in just a few days. Back on September 29th, bitcoin struggled with its third consecutive drop below $41,000. However, the bulls intercepted...
Read More »Bitcoin Price Analysis: BTC Soars Above Short-term Key Resistance, $50k Incoming?
Bitcoin has been outperforming global stocks even in a risk-off environment as investors have been waiting to see if support at $40k would hold. Today’s strong rally could be the beginning of the next leg up for the primary cryptocurrency after a month-long shake out full of liquidations and FUD, mainly from China. As we reported this week, the 4-hour chart began to show flattening of near-term moving averages, a sign of consolidation making progress, potentially setting up...
Read More »Bit Pay Allows Verifone Customers to Pay with Crypto
Bit Pay and Verifone are partnering up to allow the latter’s customers to pay for goods and services with digital currencies, thereby bringing the initial goals of bitcoin and its crypto cousins closer to reality. Bit Pay Is Looking to Push the BTC Agenda Forward Initially, bitcoin and many of its counterparts were established to be payment methods. One could use them to purchase things they needed, and they could eventually push the checks, fiat currencies and credit...
Read More »RFI : Monnaies numériques, monnaies d’avenir?
Emission du 30 septembre 2021 « Ce vendredi 1er octobre 2021, le Nigeria lancera le e-Naira, une version numérique de la monnaie nationale. Elle rejoindra le e-Yuan lancé, il y a quelques mois en Chine, et avant vraisemblablement l’euro numérique. Pourquoi cet engouement ? Quelles différences entre ces monnaies numériques et les cryptomonnaies privées comme le Bitcoin ? Quels problèmes cela soulève-t-il en terme de sécurité et de protection des données ? Cela annonce-t-il la fin...
Read More »Bitcoin at 10-Day High After Powell and Despite China FUD: The Weekly Recap
It’s been a very productive week in the cryptocurrency market, but it’s safe to say that most of it was due to the volatile price action during just one of the days – Friday, October 1st. Going back, last Friday, the BTC price was hovering around $43,500, and, in fact, it stayed there for quite some time. This wasn’t so bad, given the overall regulatory scrutiny towards the market and yet another wave of FUD coming from China. The country said that it’s banning the trading of...
Read More »Falling US Dollar Value Bullish for Bitcoin, BTC Price Heading $50K
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Read More »El Salvador President Hints at Start of Bitcoin Mining from Volcanoes
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Read More »Jerome Powell on Bitcoin Ban: No Intention to Prohibit Crypto Proceedings
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Read More »Alsace : Le restaurant “au Cheval Noir” adopte le Lightning Network
Situé à Hoenheim dans l’agglomération de Strasbourg, le restaurant « au Cheval Noir » accepte désormais les bitcoins on-chain et via le Lightning Network sans passer par le moindre tiers de confiance grâce à son propre nœud Umbrel. Le restaurant offre par ailleurs une remise de 1% sur le total de la facture pour tout paiement en BTC. “Dans notre maison, vous vivrez un moment de plaisir. Venez découvrir l’éclat d’une belle table, la...
Read More »Univers Bitcoin : La montée en puissance de Ledger Live
Avec : Fabrice Dautriat, responsable plateforme chez Ledger. Réalisation : Univers Bitcoin, « podcast crypto francophone où l’on parle des fondamentaux du bitcoin mais pas que… » A retrouver sur :– Itunes : podcasts.apple.com– Spotify : open.spotify.com– Deezer : deezer.com– Google Podcast : podcasts.google.com– Twitter : twitter.com/Univers_Bitcoin– Youtube : youtube.com ...
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