Bitcoin (BTC)

The Iranian government enlisted intelligence officers with the task of cracking down on illegal cryptocurrency miners. This unprecedented move aims to solve the nation’s concerns with rising electricity consumption. The Government vs. Illegal Crypto Miners The Iranian authorities seem determined to solve their issues with illicit crypto mining. Bloomberg reported that the Ministry of Intelligence helped set up committees across the Asian country to detect and seize computer...

Il y a 11 ans, le 22 mai 2010, le développeur Laszlo Hanyecz a payé un utilisateur du forum Bitcointalk pas moins de 10 000 BTC pour deux pizzas Papa John’s. Hanyecz a tout de même dû attendre trois jours avant de trouver enfin quelqu’un prêt à lui vendre une pizza pour ce prix… « Pouvoir échanger [des bitcoins] contre une pizza était extrêmement cool. […] Personne ne pensait que ça allait devenir aussi important ». – Laszlo Hanyecz. Trois jours avant la...

Today is the international Bitcoin Pizza Day! This is a day that many in the crypto community celebrate the 11th anniversary of the first Bitcoin commercial transaction for two pizzas, which cost 10,000 BTC. On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz traded 10,000 BTC for two Papa John’s pizzas in Florida. Years later, they would become the world’s most expensive pizza slices with a price of $365,000,000.00 at press time. Interestingly enough, they were worth over $600 million when...

With bad news attacks coming from all directions over the past week, bitcoin’s price fails to recover any of the recent losses. In the past 24 hours alone, the cryptocurrency fell by almost $10,000 following another set of China FUD. Most altcoins have it even worse, with double-digit price slumps charted from ETH, BNB, ADA, DOGE, XRP, and more. China Causes Another $9K Dip for BTC Bitcoin has seen better days. The massive sell-off during the week caused substantial...

Mike Novogratz – a bitcoin bull, billionaire investor and former hedge fund manager – took some time to discuss the most recent bitcoin drop, saying that it was a “liquidation event.” Novogratz: Bitcoin Will Undergo a Serious Correction The currency – which was trading at $64,000 per unit just a month ago – had fallen into the mid-$40,000 range earlier in the week following news that Elon Musk was ending all bitcoin payments through Tesla and that he was potentially...

This week was particularly turbulent in the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin’s price crashed to $30K following comments made by Elon Musk, who keeps teasing Dogecoin HODLers. Meanwhile, we also saw old China FUD recycled yet again. Starting off with bitcoin’s price performance, the week was rather unfortunate for bulls. BTC is down about 25% in the past seven days, currently sitting at $37K. It’s worth noting, though, that the cryptocurrency fell even lower, briefly touching...

Cathie Wood of Ark Invest believes bitcoin will reach a price of $500,000. Cathie Wood: Bitcoin Still Has a Solid Future Her words come at a rather “inopportune” time considering the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency by market cap has fallen by roughly 33 percent at the time of writing. Once trading for a high of around $64,000, bitcoin has fallen into oblivion and is now trading for close to $30,000 less. However, Wood is confident that the currency will...

On a pris l’habitude de dire que les hausses brutales du Bitcoin faisaient sortir les cons des bois (je ne blasphème pas, je cite Brassens), on avait oublié depuis quelques temps que les baisses pouvaient être pentues et faire sortir en plus des susnommés les fakes news et leurs propagateurs affolés. Bitcoin, dans le brouhaha médiatique du début de semaine, est mort et ressuscité, comme des centaines de fois malgré son jeune âge : Il a...

The price of bitcoin has taken another nasty dive, and this means the currency is trading in the $30,000 range. It has now fallen close to $30,000 per unit from its April high of nearly $64,000 and exchanges like Coinbase are experiencing huge technical problems as a result. Coinbase Is Having Some Problems The price of bitcoin has been on a downward spiral for the past several weeks, and Coinbase is ultimately at the center of this story. BTC rose to its new all-time...

Catherine Wood, CEO of Ark Management, predicts that “Elon will come back and be part of [the Bitcoin] ecosystem”.Bitcoin (BTC) reached its all-time high in value of $64,804.72 in April 2021. However, few could have foreseen a -17.8% downward spiral in value just over the past week. BTC saw an accumulated loss of over $500 billion in market capitalization, accelerated by the statement coming from Tesla CEO Elon Musk regarding the suspension of BTC as payments for car purchases, owing to...