Bitcoin (BTC)

Instagram accounts of Maltese residents were attacked recently by hackers. The online intruders specifically insisted on a Bitcoin ransom from the users in order to restore their access. Hackers Insist on Bitcoin Bitcoin and most of the cryptocurrencies keep their rally as their prices escalated in the past few months. Many companies and influential individuals either invested in them or recognized their potential. However, the skyrocketing value of bitcoin and altcoins also...

Just prior to his anticipated “SNL” appearance, it appears Elon Musk was once again the subject of a Twitter-based bitcoin scam that saw several of his social media followers getting BTC-related spam in their message feeds. It Looks Like an Elon Musk Twitter Account Was Compromised It seems like Elon Musk and his followers just cannot catch a break in this department. Musk is constantly the subject of several crypto based social media scams. For the most part, it looks...

Last February, Elon Musk – the South African entrepreneur behind billion-dollar companies such as SpaceX and Tesla – announced that while he was a big fan of Dogecoin, there would be a serious problem with it should there only be a small concentration of wallets holding most of the available units. Now it looks like that worry is becoming a reality. Dogecoin Has Grown, and Some May Be Getting Greedy Dogecoin has shot up by more than 12,000 percent in the last year alone,...

Arnold Schwarzenegger – the star of films like “The Terminator” and “Predator” – has said he does not own any cryptocurrencies as he does not understand them. The actor and former California governor has spent a lot of time with Warren Buffett over the years, and this could potentially be why crypto is not on the Austrian’s roster of investment options. Schwarzenegger Doesn’t Invest in Digital Currency Schwarzenegger has made a name for himself over the past few decades...

Software & analytics company Palantir has announced that they will be accepting Bitcoin as a payment method. Palantir will also consider purchasing Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to store on their balance sheet. Thiel Bets Big on Bitcoin Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Palantir (and, notably, PayPal), has been a long-standing cryptocurrency advocate. The company announced that it now accepts BTC for payments and even considers adding it to its balance sheet. As early as...

QANPlatform – a project that is on a mission of building a quantum-resistant hybrid blockchain protocol, secured investment from various venture capital funds to build a DeFi ecosystem. QAN Successfully Closes a Funding Round of $2.1 Million The question of whether or not existing blockchain-based PoW networks would stand the test of a quantum computer is one that’s been discussed for quite some time. To this date, many believe that a quantum computer is the most serious...

Bitcoin is down almost 5% today as the primary cryptocurrency broke below a rising wedge formation. BTC reached as high as $59,600 yesterday, touching the upper boundary of the wedge. However, the steep dive started from there. As mentioned yesterday, bitcoin was trading inside a rising wedge pattern, which in most cases tends to break to the downside. This is what happened this time as well. After breaking toward the bearish side, BTC continued to plummet but managed to find...

Nachdem die Dogecoin Rally ein wenig ins Stocken geraten ist, richtet sich nun die Aufmerksamkeit auf einen DOGE-Clone, der innerhalb der letzten 3 Tage um fast zweitausend Prozent zulegen konnte. Bei diesem Clone handelt es sich um einen Altcoin mit dem Namen Shiba Inu (SHIB), der als besserer Dogecoin vermarktet wird. Crypto News: Auch Shiba Inu Coin explodiert und outperformt BitcoinBeim SHIB handelt es sich um einen Fun-Token, der versucht den Erfolg des DOGE zu kopieren. Und wenn wir uns...

The Southeast Asian country of Indonesia considers a plan to tax trading with digital assets. However, a spokesman from the tax office revealed that the proposed scheme was still at the discussion stage, and no changes have yet been applied. The Crypto Environment in Indonesia The biggest economy in Southeast Asia – Indonesia – saw a massive increase in crypto users in the past months. Following the recent rally of most digital assets, local residents of the country turned...

J’ai visionné un entretien fort intéressant, avec Sébastien Gouspillou dans le podcast Grand Angle, que je vous recommande vivement (1). Il nous donne un aperçu de l’écosystème Bitcoin et de ses implications économiques, écologiques et politiques, vu par le prisme de l’entrepreneur, mineur de Bitcoin. On y entrevoit comment le futur des transactions internationales passera par les crypto-monnaies. Les crypto-monnaies, un chemin de croix...