Bitcoin (BTC)

“All the Banks Are Broke,” and they’ve only got worse. Quantitative easing forever? The threat of cryptocurrencies will disrupt the financial sector.  A video from 2013 depicting a European minister’s tirade against the global banking system has recently re-emerged and gone viral. Gaining massive traction within the crypto community, the speech is now more relevant than ever — and central banks know it. “All the Banks Are Broke” Within an impassioned speech, British politician and former...

Etheruem has seen a sharp 8% price fall over the past week, bringing the price for the coin down to $260.The cryptocurrency was unable to break resistance at $285, causing it to roll over and drop.ETH also declined against BTC after failing to overcome resistance at 0.0278 BTC.Key Support & Resistance LevelsETH/USD:Support: $255, $250, $235.Resistance: $270, $285, $290.ETH/BTC:Support: 0.026 BTC, 0.0256 BTC, 0.025 BTC.Resistance: 0.0278 BTC, 0.0288 BTC, 0.030 BTC .ETH/USD: Ethereum...

In what could turn out to be one of the most serious SIM-card hacks in history, someone has reportedly stolen $45 million worth of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash from a single whale investor.Hacker Gets Away With Reported $45 MillionAccording to a Reddit post from February 22nd, which is now deleted, an investor, who appears to be the founder of Dreamhost, Josh Jones, became the victim of an alleged SIM-swap attack.Popular industry commentator and founding partner at cryptocurrency asset fund...

The drama surrounding the alleged drug dealer who had to forfeit $57 million worth of Bitcoin continues. The Irishman has supposedly lost the private keys for all twelve accounts where he distributed all of his bitcoins. Thus, local authorities cannot access the funds.Not Your Keys, Not Your BitcoinThe Irish High Court ruled Clifton Collins to forfeit $56 million of Bitcoin assets a few days ago, as Cryptopotato reported. The Court decided that he purchased all coins with his drug profits....

Dr. Adam Back is a cypherpunk pioneer. His work on hashcash is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper and, lesser known among bitcoiners, but just as cool, his work on telescoping circuits is cited in the TOR white-paper. These are among many more contributions to the field of applied cryptography. In this episode we discuss cypherpunk history, bitcoin’s history and future, bitcoin privacy and Adam gives us...

On February 21, the Malta Financial Service Authority made an official post about the Binance exchange office address. The cryptocurrency market received a hit.A bunch of news media was referring to Binance as to ‘Malta-based exchange’. The fact is that nobody saw that office of Binance situated in Malta. Some crypto journalists like Cryptomedication were asking people in Telegram chats for months: Where is Binance’s office? So far, cryptocurrency enthusiasts had nothing to answer.Despite the...

Traduction d’un article d’Aaron van Wirdum publié dans Bitcoin Magazine le 18 février 2020. Bitcoin Core et d’autres projets open source ont, au fil des ans, mis au point une série de technologies permettant d’améliorer la scalabilité de Bitcoin et l’expérience des utilisateurs de Bitcoin. Avec des avancées telles que Segregated Witness (SegWit), Replace-By-Fee et le Lightning Network, les utilisateurs de Bitcoin ont un certain nombre...

Conférence en anglais destinée à toutes les personnes intéressées par les aspects techniques du protocole Bitcoin. Présentation : « While most discussion around Vaults require Schnorr, new opcodes or new sighashes, there is still ways to design Vaults using the current Bitcoin protocol for practical use in institutional organisations. The presentation will go through some previous and current Vault proposals, then explain how it is...

Bitcoin has been experiencing heightened volatility over the past few weeks, and it’s likely due to the reemergence of whales according to one source.The Whales Are Back in the PictureBitcoin whales are individuals who house several million dollars-worth of cryptocurrencies in their digital wallets. Often, they possess so much in a single account that the slightest maneuver of money could potentially cause the entire industry to suffer a shift of some kind. Usually, the cryptocurrency...

It looks like bitcoin and crypto are gearing up to be regular, hot debate topics during this year’s U.S. presidential election.Bitcoin Is Gearing Itself UpAs we all know, Andrew Yang was originally serving as the “crypto candidate” for Democrats throughout the country. Among Yang’s plans were to alleviate some of the tension in the regulatory space by making the rules surrounding crypto activity and trades less complicated and easier to understand for normal, everyday traders.Yang, however,...