Bitcoin (BTC)

On Saturday HTC launched a wallet-friendly version of its blockchain smartphone, versioned the Exodus 1s. The new phone comes in at a little under $250 (€219) and customers can buy it either with fiat or crypto. Its real selling point? Run your own full bitcoin node on the go. Verify your own transactions on the new HTC Exodus 1s | Source: htcexodus.comThe Taiwanese company launched big brother a year ago and initially tried to entice blockchain fans by pricing it in Bitcoin. It...

Organisé par le CEIFAC, Collège Européen des Investigations financières et de l’Analyse Financière criminelle, le colloque « Cryptomonnaies et blockchains : quelles perspectives ? » réunira le 24 octobre prochain professionnels et universitaires afin d’évoquer l’impact de Bitcoin sur la criminalité transfrontière et de déterminer les moyens de lutte et les défis présents et futurs. Où ? – Auditorium de la Bibliothèque Nationale et...

Bitcoin had almost no value at all when it initially appeared in 2009. There were no exchanges operating and owners couldn’t use it to purchase goods and services like they can today. In early 2010, Bitcoin’s value sat at around $0.003. That’s one-third of a penny. That March, a Bitcoin owner tried to sell 10,000 Bitcoins for just $50. Nobody bought it. With the price of one Bitcoin hovering around $8,000 these days, that $50 investment would now be worth about $80 million.Things began to...

Ex-NBA star Isaac Austin has been accused of swindling a Ghanaian firm nearly one million dollars in a Bitcoin Scam. According to GhanaWeb, the former NBA player lured victims into investing their Bitcoin in an automated cryptocurrency trading program run by his firm, Isaac Edward Austin and Tudor Trust. On Austin’s LinkedIn page the ex-basketball player is listed as a trustee of the firm. Source: LinkedInHis Twitter account, however, makes no such mention. Ghanaian firm loses 75 Bitcoin...

Layer1, San Francisco-based startup involved in Bitcoin mining, has raised $50 million in an effort to live up its plan to establish farms for mining. The money has been received from such a row of prominent investors including Peter Thiel, an American billionaire and co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund, and Shasta Ventures, an early-stage venture capital investment firm that invests in enterprise and technology consumer startups.According to Alexander Liegl, CEO of...

Stellar lumen price is struggling to gain momentum above the $0.0650 resistance against the US Dollar.XLM price is currently consolidating below the $0.0640 and $0.0650 resistance levels.There is a significant breakout pattern forming with support near $0.0622 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The pair could either rally above $0.0650 or it might start a downside correction to $0.0600.Stellar lumen price is facing an uphill task against the US Dollar and bitcoin. XLM price might dip...

BISON bietet einfachen, schnellen und sicheren Handel mit Kryptowährungen Kryptowährungen einfach und zuverlässig über das Smartphone handeln: Das ermöglicht BISON, die Krypto-App der Gruppe Börse Stuttgart. Gut acht Monate nach dem Start weitet BISON nun die Handelszeiten aus. Ab sofort ist der gebührenfreie Handel mit Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin und Ripple (XRP) rund um die...

Nous apprenons que la Caisse d’Epargne aurait délibérément bloqué au niveau national tout virement à destination d’une plateforme française bien connue spécialisée dans l’achat et la vente de cryptomonnaies. La société – de bonne réputation et exerçant depuis plusieurs années – n’a pas souhaité que nous communiquions son nom afin de ne pas nuire aux démarches qu’elle a entamées pour défendre ses droits. Les faits : Après avoir constaté...

Just as expected, Bitcoin had produced its move. Just as we said in our recent analysis: “Unlike the crypto community on twitter, suggesting Bitcoin to $6K, in my opinion, the direction isn’t clear yet.”Most of the traders lose money over time. Hence, they take the wrong decisions guessing the next direction of the market. This was another classic example, as Bitcoin price broke to the bullish side following reaching the end of the 4-hour short-term triangle’s pattern.Does it mean we will see...

Peter David Schiff ist ein bekannter Ökonom, und Autor und kandidierte 2010 für den US-Senat. Laut dem US-amerikanischen Experten Peter David Schiff könnte der Bitcoin in Kürze nur noch bei lediglich 2’000 US-Dollar liegen. Im Gegensatz zu den vielen optimistischen Vorhersagen zum Bitcoin stehen einige wenige kritische Stimmen von Investoren und Finanzexperten. Einer von...