Bitcoin (BTC)

Neben dem legalen Handel werden Kryptowährungen auch gerne für kriminelle Zwecke verwendet. Werden die Täter bei Geldwäsche, Erpressung oder illegalem Handel im Darknet erwischt, profitieren nicht nur ehrliche Krypto-Interessenten, sondern ebenfalls der staatliche Geldbeutel. Bundesland Niedersachsen profitiert von beschlagnahmter Kryptowährung Während die Jahre 2010 bis 2018 Einnahme von rund 410.000...

Stenografen dokumentieren eine Rede der Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel im Deutschen Bundestag. Foto: CC 3.0 by Tobias Koch, Wikipedia Facebooks Digitalwährung Libra ist in aller Munde. Doch es gibt auch eine Menge Gegenwind für die private Kryptowährung. Der deutsche Finanzminister Scholz hat seine Kritik an den Plänen von Libra erneuert und deutlich gemacht, dass eine europäische Libra-Alternative kommen muss. Scholz fordert die...

Some people don’t seem to enjoy bitcoin no matter how far it goes, but when one of those people is Jared Kenna – a man who ultimately got rich off of it – the odds don’t look too great.Jared Kenna Discusses His “Bitcoin Plight”Kenna is one of bitcoin’s earliest millionaires, but his presence within the crypto tech world has ultimately faded over the past three years. This has been for several reasons, the biggest one being that he’s lost his “love for the industry,” according to a recent...

Facebook’s plans to launch a cryptocurrency are an indication that blockchain technology has come of age and is ready for prime time, especially in Japan. According to the chairperson of the Japan Security Token Association, Go Masuda, Libra is blockchain’s second “killer app,” after Bitcoin: “The industry lacked a good use case of blockchain technology. There have been no killer apps since bitcoin … the industry is now entering a new phase of commercial adoption.” With Japan being one of...

Le Cercle du Coin tiendra mardi 15 octobre à 18 heures sa réunion trimestrielle ouverte à tous les membres à jour de leur cotisation. La réunion se déroulera aux Écuries,  8 rue Bachaumont, à Paris. Pour faciliter la tâche des organisateurs il est demandé de s’inscrire sur le lien https://framadate.org/reunion15oct Plusieurs points devraient être abordés, dont le support à aborder à certains...

Perhaps institutional players aren’t that hard to come by. Perhaps they are interested in crypto after all, and perhaps they do want to diversify their portfolios with new technology.Institutional Investors Are More “Forgiving” Than We ThoughtThat’s the sentiment of a London-based OTC firm known as BCB Group. According to a new report issued by the organization, institutional investors are still intrigued by bitcoin and its crypto cousins despite the nasty price falls we’ve been witnessing as...

Vega Protocol, a fully decentralized trading technology platform, has just announced it has successfully concluded a seed round and raised more than $5 million. The funding round was led by Pantera Capital and also had a few others as participants, including Xpring (Ripple), Focus Labs, Rockaway Blockchain, KR 1, Hashed and RSK Ecosystem Fund, among others.According to a press release, Vega’s aim is to provide a blockchain network that will allow traders to make beneficial moves for...

Photo: ShutterstockBy Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex.BTC/USD Tech AnalysisBTC demonstrates the worst result of all cryptocurrencies this weekBank of Canada thinks the BTC to be inefficientOn W1, the Bitcoin quotations have escaped the Triangle and keep declining inside the correction channel. Now, the quotations are between 50.0% and 61.8% ($7350.00) Fibo and may continue declining to 76.0% ($5860.00). A breakaway of the resistance level at $9850.00 may signal the end of the...

IKEA, the world’s largest multinational furniture retailer based in the Netherlands, has successfully settled an invoice, receiving payment for goods bought by Iceland’s Nordic Store, using Monerium’s programmable digital cash. The initiation and completion of the transaction were carried out via Tradeshift – a global leader in the supply chain financial sector – on the Ethereum blockchain. The digital cash used in this transaction is a direct virtual form of the Icelandic official currency...

One of the biggest advantages Bitcoin has over the traditional financial networks is the low transaction-fee model. This has been amply demonstrated amidst the ongoing furor in the U.S. over the ‘Ukraine Whistleblower’ as fundraising effort on GoFundMe gets underway. Less than a week since a complaint from an anonymous CIA agent alleged that President Donald Trump had sought foreign help in his 2020 re-election efforts, the GoFundMe page opened to assist in meeting the Whistleblower’s legal...