Bitcoin (BTC)

The last couple of days saw the entire cryptocurrency market bleeding as Bitcoin and altcoins all marked notable decreases.Bitcoin lost around 5% of its USD value at one point, as it dropped from a daily high of $8,800 to about $8,360 in just a few hours. The cryptocurrency managed to recover ever so slightly as it’s currently trading at around $8,470, still down about 2 percent on the day.As CryptoPotato reported, the support at $8,500 also represents the Golden Fibonacci level of 61.8%...

La rumeur de la sortie d’un ouvrage mystérieux consacré à Bitcoin se précise : Présenté comme un essai « richement illustré », Objective Thune aborderait, à travers les aventures de « Loumi et de son tiers de confiance », diverses facettes (économique, sociale, politique, philosophique, symbolique, etc.) de Bitcoin. Nous informerons bien entendu nos lecteurs de la sortie officielle de cet objet...

« S’il y a bien deux idées qui persistent dans l’inconscient collectif, c’est de penser que Bitcoin est par nature fongible et qu’il permet un certain niveau d’anonymat. Sans revenir sur les différences importantes entre pseudonymat et anonymat, il est néanmoins assez évident que lorsque vous révélez certaines informations en utilisant Bitcoin (comme votre identité ou votre IP, par exemple), il...

Traditional markets and indexes are currently hitting new records. In one such first-ever milestone, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied to a record 28,000 plus levels on Friday. The rally comes amidst waning tensions in the U.S.-China trade war with the hope of reaching a trade deal between the two economic powerhouses.On Friday, November 15, Dow Jones’s 30-stock average climbed 222.93 points at 28,004. In just the last four months, the Dow Jones price index has surged by 1000 points....

The Bitcoin futures market has exploded like no one could have expected over the recent years, and it continues to grow. This summer, BitMEX hit a new record for BTC futures trading at over $16 billion.CME recently petitioned the CFTC to double its BTC futures trading capacity in the face of soaring interest. Binance had recently entered the space, and Bakkt has launched with its physically delivered BTC futures product (albeit somewhat tepidly).In the light of so much action among the margin...

In what seems like a story out of spy movies, the Russian service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has allegedly linked about $450 million of missing crypto assets from the long moribund cryptocurrency exchange Wex with to Russia Federal Security Bureau (FSB).The BBC has for six years been investigating the collapse of BTC-e which many have believed was a front for the alleged laundering of over $4 billion worth of Bitcoins and why Alexander Vinnik is being accused of the same....

Die Northern Bitcoin AG hat die Emission einer Wandelanleihe mit Bezugsrecht der Aktionäre beschlossen. Der Gesellschaft liegen bereits Zusagen von internationalen strategischen Grossinvestoren aus dem Blockchain-Sektor in Höhe von EUR 10’000.000 vor, das gesamte Volumen beträgt bis zu EUR 20’000.000. Der Zinssatz beträgt 5 Prozent pro Jahr. Die Wandelanleihe wird eine Laufzeit von fünf Jahren haben....

The environmental effects of cryptocurrency mining on our planet are allegedly more costly than we might have thought, according to a new report.Cryptocurrency Mining Report Provides a Dollar FigureThe document, which is entitled “Crypto Damages: Monetary Value Estimates of the Air Pollution and Human Health Impacts of Cryptocurrency Mining” has been published in the scientific journal “Energy Research and Social Science.” It was authored by several researchers at the University of New Mexico...

Current fundamentals show that the majority of crypto-currencies move widely in a range, extending their lateral trade, without showing any significant gain in the short term.The total market capitalization of cryptocurrency currently stands at about $ 238 billion, while Bitcoin accounts for about 65.8% of the total value and, in terms of market capitalization,  XRP is the third-largest coin and is not excluded from the recent downward trend, the crypto saves price of $ 0.270 per piece,...

The cryptocurrency market has been rather interesting to monitor over the past few months, in the eyes of the typical crypto trader. There’s been a lot of action around the price of Bitcoin, crypto regulations, security, and even institutional interest.Amid all this, Cryptopotato had the chance to do an exclusive interview with Ben Zhou, the CEO of Bybit exchange. Recently hitting the 4 billion USD mark in daily traded volume, the exchange is quickly catching up to speed. It has managed to...