Bitcoin (BTC)

Over the past several months, the Federal Reserve has been purchasing many leading assets as a means of keeping the U.S. economy somewhat stable during the coronavirus pandemic. This overspending and overprinting of traditional fiat money to ensure people have stimulus measures during the pandemic has caused many traders – both standard and institutional – to pile their money into commodities like bitcoin, which is no longer a speculative asset in many people’s minds.If the Federal Reserve...

Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), believes that bitcoin requires a unified global regulation framework to work properly.Interestingly, Canadian businessman and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary also noted that the cryptocurrency could become “something of tremendous value” if world regulators back it up.ECB President On BTC RegulationsThe 65-year-old French politician and current President of the ECB has been calling on clear regulation for bitcoin for a while....

One of the big problems with cryptocurrency is that it requires long and extensive passwords to remain secure. Owners of digital currency have often come across this issue. They forget their passwords and cannot access their funds, and as a result, these funds get locked up or lost forever. For Stefan Thomas, the problem is even bigger considering it’s keeping him from gaining access to well over $200 million in bitcoin at press time.Losing Passwords Usually Leads to Lost BTCBorn in Germany...

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Over the past several months, institutional investors have held a grand stake in the world of bitcoin. Companies like MicroStrategy, MassMutual and Stone Ridge have all invested hundreds of millions of dollars into bitcoin, and as a result, the currency has ultimately risen beyond the $33,000 mark at the time of writing.Institutional Investors Are Still a Small Portion of the Trading PopulationNo doubt that institutions have been playing a huge role in the legitimization of the crypto space....

Legal Guide to Buying US Real Estate With Bitcoin Real estate sellers, developers, and their brokers should consider an alternative approach for marketing and selling properties in the US to local and international buyers. This approach involves closing real estate transactions using Bitcoin and other main types of cryptocurrency. Some of the real estate brokerage firms in New...

ETH/USD – Bulls Holding Strong Above .382 Fib SupportKey Support Levels: $1047, $1000, $952.Key Resistance Levels: $1100, $1165, $1200.Last week, Ethereum was climbing higher as it surged into the $1350 resistance (1.272 Fib Extension). More specifically, it struggled to close a daily candle above resistance at $1276 (bearish .886 Fib Retracement) and started to roll over from here at the weekend.On Monday, the sudden Bitcoin price plummet caused ETH to spike as low as $930. Luckily, the...

Dans un article publié aujourd’hui sur son blog, le créateur de hardware wallets Ledger est revenu sur la violation de sa base de données client en juillet 2020 : deux employés de la plateforme de commerce électronique Shopify serait à l’origine du piratage. « Le 23 décembre 2020, nous avons reçu une notification de Shopify, notre fournisseur de services de commerce électronique, concernant un incident impliquant des données marchandes...

European cryptocurrency payments company CoinGate has joined the likes of Coinbase and Binance US to remove Ripple (XRP) from its services. The firm justified its decision with the SEC charges brought on the payment processor as many of its partners had already stopped doing utilizing the XRP token.CoinGate Removes XRPHeadquartered in Lithuania, CoinGate enables bitcoin, ETH, and other digital assets to be used as a means of payment with traditional merchants. The company has a reported...

S’exprimant hier dans le cadre de la conférence Reuters Next, Christine Lagarde, présidente de la Banque centrale européenne, a déclaré que le bitcoin était un actif « hautement spéculatif », favorisant des activités « totalement illégales » et qu’il doit être réglementé au niveau mondial par le GAFI : « C’est un actif spéculatif à tous points de vue. Si vous regardez la hausse récente et la...