Bitcoin (BTC)

Investors want to get their hands on Bitcoin, and the big banks are already considering supporting the cryptocurrency so as not to be left behind.After a remarkable price recovery, Bitcoin seems to have stood the test of time, proving to naysayers that it is a reliable asset and an excellent store of value in the long term.Investors are taking note, and it seems that the constant pressures exerted by these groups on the banking sector are indeed yielding good results.JP Morgan:”We Will Have...

Bitcoin is making a huge mark on the financial industry as of late. This is potentially due to recent activity from electric car company Tesla, which has purchased as much as $1.5 billion worth of the currency in the past week. The company is also looking into possibly allowing bitcoin as a method of payment for goods and services. General Motors – one of Tesla’s biggest competitors – has now come out to say that while it won’t be investing in the digital asset anytime soon, it will closely...

To say that the last week was interesting in the cryptocurrency market would be a massive understatement. Bitcoin almost reached $50K, Ethereum shot past $1800, BNB peaked at around $150 – these are just some of the highlights.Starting off, a few days ago, Bitcoin received perhaps what might be considered as its major endorsement in the recent years – Tesla revealed a bitcoin buy worth $1.5 billion in January. That’s right – one of the world’s largest public companies allocated around 15% of...

Jack Dorsey, CEO de Twitter, et le rappeur Jay-Za ont annoncé aujourd’hui une allocation de 500 bitcoins à un nouveau fonds nommé ₿trust, destiné à financer le développement de Bitcoin en Afrique et en Inde. Le CEO de twitter a également lancé une campagne de recrutement d’un comité de direction. « Jay-Z et moi-même donnons 500 BTC à un nouveau fonds d’aide nommé ‘₿trust’, pour financer le...

Ned Segal – the CFO of Twitter, the second-largest social media platform in the world – says that the company is potentially looking into adding bitcoin to its official finance roster, thereby allowing payments to be made in the world’s number one digital currency by market cap.Twitter Could Be the Next Big BTC Payment ProviderSegal says that nothing is set in stone yet, though if Twitter were to make this decision in the coming weeks or months, it shouldn’t be a surprise to digital traders....

Mark Cuban is back in the news talking about bitcoin. In the past, Cuban has been relatively lukewarm when it comes to the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. While the basketball team he owns – the Dallas Mavericks – will accept crypto payments for merchandise and tickets, Cuban himself doesn’t always see value in digital assets.Mark Cuban Has Mixed Thoughts on BTCNow, in a new interview, the billionaire stockholder claims that bitcoin will never be a valid currency, and he...

BitcoinBitcoin is up by a solid 28.2% this week as the coin set a new ATH today at $49,000. The cryptocurrency had penetrated above the previous consolidation pattern at the start of the month and started to push higher over the past week.On Monday, BTC surged from $38,800 to reach the resistance at $46,427 (1.618 Fib Extension – red). There, it established an ascending price channel. It took a couple of days for BTC to break that level.Today, Bitcoin climbed higher to set the new ATH at...

« Comprendre le Lightning Network est une série de courtes vidéos visant à expliquer le fonctionnement du Lightning Network de Bitcoin. Dans ce sixième épisode, nous nous intéressons à la fermeture de canal au travers d’une transaction Bitcoin, pouvant prendre différentes formes suivant les cas.«  Réalisation : Fanis MichalakisChaine Youtube : youtube.com/channel/UCkQn_Fk4uKa41WfQm–lKZw Episodes précédents :1. Fonctionnement d’un canal de paiement2. La notion d’adresse...

A Bitcoin ETF has been approved in North America. Canadian securities regulators on Thursday approved the first publicly traded Bitcoin exchange-traded fund Purpose Bitcoin ETF.While everyone was looking at the SEC to approve the first ETF in the US, Canada has made a move for it and proven its progressive view of Bitcoin and crypto at large. The Bitcoin ETF is set to provide exposure to long term, “high-risk” investors. The approval is set to cover these territories, British Columbia,...

The crypto industry in Africa and India is still nascent as the countries are just beginning to come to terms with what this new technological advancement means for their financial industry.Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey together with billionaire music mogul Jay-Z have announced a blind Bitcoin (BTC) development trust that is worth 500 units of BTCs which translates to over $23 million. The trust would have a mission of “making bitcoin the internet’s currency” and it would be focused on teams in...