Bitcoin (BTC)

Recently, Live Bitcoin News reported that the president of Crypto Capital had been arrested for allegedly taking part in drug running and money laundering schemes. We also reported that further arrests were expected in the coming weeks. One of those arrests has now taken place.More Bad News for Crypto CapitalOz Yosef, a principal executive of the company, is charged with being the man responsible for the loss of roughly $850 million in crypto funds transferred to the company by Bitfinex, one...

It sounds like China is really warming up to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies as of late.China: Mixing Things Up Even MoreThe latest price hike for BTC has ultimately come about largely because Chinese president Xi Jinping commented that blockchain technology could bring his country’s infrastructure to new heights. Thus, he’s planning to push blockchain innovation very hard in the future.But prior to these words, it’s known that China hasn’t always been friendly to crypto. For one thing, the...

One of the biggest bitcoin miner manufacturers, the Avalon Bitcoin miner Canaan Creative, publicly filed for a U.S. Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Monday, with big names as underwriters. Credit Suisse, Galaxy Digital, Citigroup, China Renaissance, CMBI, Huatai Securities and Tiger brokers are obliged to pay for and accept delivery of the ADSs offered by this prospectus.The second-largest manufacturer of ASIC mining hardware after Bitmain, Canaan plans to list its shares on Nasdaq under the...

The cryptosphere is generally still celebrating Bitcoin’s spike to levels above $9,500 a few days ago, after it fell more than $500, a while before that. Currently, the market seems a tad invigorated by the Bitcoin rally and there is now a lot of hope that all of the bullish forecasts that swept the sector, could actually come to pass.Not only did Bitcoin surge, but as its wont to do, it seemed to carry major altcoins along with it, with some of them shooting up to 30%. In the same vein, the...

BitcoinThe spike from $7,350 to $10,348 brought the hype around Bitcoin back and the declines are already behind our backs. The price corrected down to $9100 and we can also see attempts to build support in this range and the 0.38 Fibonacci levels, suggesting a bullish trend on the charts. A healthy correction would restore the 0.618 Fibonacci levels in the $8500 range, leading up to the next level at $10,200.EthereumAgainst the USD, the price is trying to break the resistance built around...

Ripple has been in a brutal downtrend for nearly two years. Trader Peter Brandt predicts that the cryptocurrency will bottom out as soon as it completes the diamond pattern. Other traders are bullish on XRP as the cryptocurrency posts a solid rally to take out the resistance level mentioned by Brandt. Ripple’s XRP has been in a downtrend for almost two years. The third-largest cryptocurrency posted an all-time high of $3.30 in January 2018. Since then, investors have experienced...

In what sounds like the makings of the plot of a telenovela series, top crypto billionaire and founder of cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain Micree  Ketuan Zhan has been forced out of his own company where he holds about 60% control. CEO and fellow co-founder Jihan Wu has terminated all the day-to-day working positions and responsibilities that Micree Zhan had and held within the organization down to the deletion of his e-mail and denial of access to Bitmain’s premises.Bitmain, meanwhile,...

Bitcoin’s dramatic 40% move puts it closer to knocking out new yearly highs. The leading digital currency faces a critical inflection point, based on the technical indicators. A look at the daily charts reveals BTC could be primed to breach $16,000 or fall all the way back to $8,500. Bitcoin is on a roll since Friday after Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that his country would “take the leading position in the emerging field of blockchain.” The pioneer cryptocurrency surged...

Photo: Bitfinex / TwitterCryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex’s new token platform Bitfinex Token Sales recently announced its first project, K.IM, the decentralized new P2P digital content, and monetization platform brought to you by Kim Dotcom.In a press release that the company shared with the Coinspeaker, it is said that K.im was created in order to merge internet with the Bitcoin so there could be a platform that allows artists, content creators and digital businesses to sell their content...

Je n’aime pas beaucoup le terme « cryptomonnaie », d’une part parce qu’il mène a des contresens [1] et d’autre part parce qu’il désigne aujourd’hui à peu près tout et n’importe quoi. S’il s’agit de parler de l’innovation apportée par Bitcoin, ne faudrait-il pas plutôt parler de monnaie numérique de pair à pair (P2P Money) ? ou de cash électronique ? ou encore de monnaie numérique décentralisée ? Sans doute… si ce n’est qu’aucune de ces...