Bitcoin (BTC)

BlueWallet, application mobile Bitcoin et Lightning, prend désormais en charge les paiements PayJoin (BIP 78), procédé de mélange des inputs permettant d’accroitre la confidentialité des transactions on-chain. Le protocole de paiement Pay-to-EndPoint (P2EP), permettant les transactions PayJoin, avait déjà été implémenté sur BTCPay Server en avril 2020. Source : coindesk.com En savoir plus...

Blocklete Games – a virtual sports experience that’s been established utilizing blockchain technology – has announced that patrons can pay for their services and products with cryptocurrency through Bit Pay.Blocklete Says “Yes” to Crypto PaymentsUsers of Blocklete Golf – a subdivision of the platform – can buy and sell digital golfers with Ethereum, bitcoin, bitcoin cash, Ripple or stable currencies. They can also play in various tournaments and win cash prizes. Digital athletes are collected...

It looks like Britain is set to fall behind when it comes to holding a strong presence in the crypto space. The country’s top financial watchdog announced yesterday that it would be banning the sale of crypto products to all retailers that work to track the prices of well-known digital assets such as bitcoin and Ethereum. The governing body claims that too many people have lost money on these assets, and thus they are dangerous and should not be in commission.Britain Seeks to Ban...

Bitcoin advocate John McAfee – the creator of the world’s biggest antivirus software – has been arrested in Spain. He has been charged with negligence and failing to file tax returns while living in the United States. To add insult to injury, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing McAfee over several phony cryptocurrency giveaways.McAfee Is Facing the DirtMcAfee has been one of the most controversial figures throughout the entire cryptocurrency space. He has often taken quite a...

Bitcoin has had a slow last few weeks, that’s for sure. It appears that the cryptocurrency is trading within a narrow range, unable to swing convincingly in either direction.This is reflected in its historic volatility, which has been falling quite a bit. In fact, it’s currently at a point where, usually, a huge move is inbound.Bitcoin Historic Volatility Low: Huge Move IncomingThose who’ve been following the cryptocurrency markets long enough know that there’s rarely a boring day. And, in...

PARSIQ team used their innovative technology to do a “snapshot” of the state of their token holders before the KuCoin hack.As the cryptocurrency industry grows immensely to global scale, the risk factors associated with black hat hackers is glaring at unsuspecting investors on a daily basis. However, thanks to an ingenious technique developed by PARSIQ, the blockchain industry can now guarantee investors full recovery of their crypto balances in case of mass theft by hackers.In the past two...

Just as Bitcoin was a spark for the cryptocurrency movement, it seems that Ethereum is likely to take a similar role in the history of DeFi.Decentralized finance is undoubtedly the biggest hit of 2020, with $12 billion in total value locked looking like a realistic target for 2020. Over recent months, several dApps have topped the charts on DeFi Pulse. Compound, Aave, and Uniswap have recently taken the number one spot, pushing the previously-dominant Maker down the rankings.However, as the...

The move to launch the cryptocurrency lending service will go a long way in bringing the much revered DeFi product to thousands of BitMax customers.A foremost cryptocurrency exchange in Japan BitMax and an offshoot of Japan-based social media messaging giant LINE has unveiled its cryptocurrency lending service. Per reports from CoinDesk Japan, the LINE backed exchange BitMax’s lending service will allow users to lend crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum to exchanges and obtain rental...

Dans un article intitulé “Profit lag and alternate network mining” publié hier sur arXiv.org, les chercheurs Cyril Grunspan (Leonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire, De Vinci Research Center) et Ricardo Pérez-Marco (CNRS, IMJ-PRG) définissent l’idée de temps d’attente avant rentabilité et étudient la stratégie de minage alternatif consistant à exploiter différents forks d’une même cryptomonnaie avec la...

Bitcoin price appears to be tracking in another classic whale manipulation pattern right now, after yesterday’s sharp $200 crash during the US trading session. The details of this pattern have already been covered extensively in a previous analysis, but for those of you not familiar, it essentially represents a strategy employed by large BTC traders (whales) to create panic in the market and force weaker hands to sell. The induced rise in selling pressure creates more...