Bitcoin (BTC)

An anonymous buyer at an Australian auction paid $361,000 in bitcoin to acquire a classic Subaru WRX driven by the rally champion Colin McRae. Racing Car in Exchange for BTC According to a recent report, the automobile was located in the back of a Victorian shed for some time, and few people knew how valuable it was. When Lloyds Auctions introduced it, the machine’s estimated price was not more than $15,000. An investigation, though, found out that the car was particularly...

Hatten Land Ltd in Singapore has joined hands with Frontier Digital Asset Management Pte Ltd. The companies will now work together to manage more than 1,000 crypto mining rigs operating within Hatten Group properties based in Malaysia. Hatten Land Is Revamping Its Mining Projects Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2021, Hatten says that several new digital currency mining rigs will be installed between the two companies. Frontier also operates approximately 700 separate...

Bitcoin’s price is more than 60% up since the start of the year. Yet, it’s nearly 30% down since the April peak. With just a few months left until the end of the year, predictions are flying left and right about the asset’s price tag at that point. One of the most popular models – the Stock-to-Flow – sees BTC tapping into a six-digit territory by December’s end. If bitcoin is to go into such unseen and unimaginable (until recently, at least) heights, it would have to more...

Elon Musk – the South African billionaire and entrepreneur behind mega companies like Tesla and SpaceX – believes that crypto regulation should not exist and that governments should just mind their own business. Elon Musk Doesn’t Care for Governments Getting Involved in Crypto Musk is echoing the age-old argument that digital currencies are designed to be decentralized assets. They are not meant to be overseen by banks or standard financial institutions. Third parties...

Table ronde autour du Lightning Network lors de la conférence Surfin’Bitcoin le 26 août 2021. Romain Rouphaël (LN Markets), Bastien Teinturier (Acinq) et Antoine Poinsot (Revault) décrivent les différentes implémentations du lightning Network [1] et évoquent l’avenir du réseau Lightning. [1]c-lightning de Blockstream, Eclair d’Acinq, LND de Lightning Labs, Rust Lightning et l’implémentation d’Electrum ...

Entretien avec Romain Rouphaël cofondateur de LN Markets. « Alors que Bitcoin continue de révolutionner le monde et de casser les dogmes financiers traditionnels, de nouvelles innovations arrivent et promettent bien de changer en profondeur la manière dont nous effectuons des transactions. Lightning Network est l’une de ces pépites. Son arrivée dans la crypto-sphère n’est pourtant pas récente, mais sa rapidité de développement et les perspectives qu’il propose font chaque jour...

Dimanche 3 octobre En ligne : L’entonnoir du bitcoin, Live stream à retrouver tous les dimanches à 18h00 sur Twitter Mardi 5 octobre Strasbourg : Tarte flambée au Cheval Noir (38, rue de la République à Hoenheim) Rennes : Bitcoin meetup au Hangar (1 rue de Dinan) à partir de 19h30 Mercredi 6 octobre Paris : Bitcoin Meetup au Sof’s bar (43 rue Saint Sauveur) à partir de 19h00...

Following the past few days of marking gains, bitcoin has calmed a bit around the $48,000 mark. Some alternative coins have kept climbing, though, with Solana surging 8% and Terra jumping to a new all-time high after a 20% daily increase. LUNA Marks New ATH: Sol 8% Up The alternative coins have been on a roll in the past few days after the mid-week price drops. Ethereum had dipped to $2,900 following the latest Chinese Fud. However, ETH has reclaimed more than $500 since then...

According to a recent research, 38% of Spaniards between 25 and 40 years old plan to enter the cryptocurrency market in the coming months. Moreover, 21% of the participants have already invested in bitcoin or some altcoins. Are Spaniards Flocking into Crypto? The Spanish neobank Rebellion conducted a survey to determine whether young Spaniards were thinking of jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon in the near future. Per the results, more than one-third of the participants...

Two U.S. Senators – Maggie Hassan, a democrat from New Hampshire and Joni Ernst, a Republican from Iowa – have introduced a new bill that would allow regulators in the country to examine the behaviors of miners both within the nation and abroad. Maggie Hassan Wants to Know What’s Happening in the Mining World The new bill asks that the Treasury Department look at how nations today are using the crypto they mine. It also asks that they examine how much cryptocurrency has...