Bitcoin (BTC)

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...

The topic of working COVID-19 vaccines has been widely discussed ever since the virus started spreading globally last year. Although a few have already been approved, their distribution faces difficulties and delays. This has prompted fraudsters to take advantage by promoting vaccines on the dark web and requesting up to $1,000 per dose paid via bitcoin.COVID-19 Vaccines On The Dark Web For BTCVaccines usually require years of research and testing before reaching people. However, the rapid...

With just two guesses left to decide his fate with the hard drive, the user has put it in a secure facility.Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer, has been left in a very difficult situation after failing to guess his private keys in 8 attempts to access his Bitcoin. Thomas has 7002 Bitcoins which is around $220M in a small hard drive also called IronKey.Users of this drive have up to 10 attempts to enter their private keys to access their assets or lose them forever. According to reports,...

The largest US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has issued a formal apology for users in the UK and the EU region. The company acknowledged that its services have been unstable because of the high number of new registrations and the latest regulatory requirements.More Users Led To Problems On CoinbaseCoinbase users located in the UK or the EU might have noticed that the services on the popular US exchange didn’t operate properly in the past two months. The platform displayed “partially...

Since she was appointed the president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde has advocated for a digital euro to complement technological advancement, especially in the payment industry.Speaking at the Reuters Online event on Wednesday, European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde highlighted her thoughts on the crypto space and the digital payment system. According to Lagarde, Bitcoin is a very volatile asset that has facilitated ‘funny business’. She also noted that...

Investing in cryptocurrencies carries risks of its own. Apart from the highly volatile price, investors who store their funds on external wallets (and not exchanges) need to save and protect the information that will enable them to access the assets.In case someone loses their private keys (essentially a password for the wallet), this could spell disaster. Such could be the case with Stefan Thomas and his bitcoins worth more than $240 million.7,002 Bitcoins Could Be Forever LostThe NY Times...