Bitcoin (BTC)

U.S. federal prosecutors have indicted a South Korean national behind the world’s largest darknet child sexual exploitation site that was primarily funded using bitcoin. The website known as ‘Welcome to Video’ was being run by 23-year old Jong Woo Son. The South Korean national is currently serving a prison sentence in his home country for the same crimes. Per the unsealed indictment, Son was arrested in March last year. His website only dealt in child sexual exploitation videos allowing...

Do you fancy taking a luxury vacation? Are you a cryptocurrency fan? Well, now you can put your two loves together by paying for these luxury hotel rooms with bitcoin.A Hotel with Bitcoin: Times Are ChangingSeveral hotels in Europe are now accepting digital currency as a means of paying for rooms. Vacation takes a lot of planning, and sometimes it’s easy to forget to bring cash (or to convert your cash into the fiat of the country you’re visiting). In addition, if you don’t have an American...

L’Oxford English Dictionary (OED), publié par Oxford University Press et reconnu comme le dictionnaire de référence de la langue anglais, a officiellement ajouté le terme « satoshi« , à sa base de données […]. Le satoshi, ou aussi l’équivalent de 0.00000001 Bitcoin (BTC), est défini comme suit : « La plus petite unité monétaire du système de paiement numérique Bitcoin, égale à un centième de...

Oh, bitcoin… Why must you always put us through this? At press time, the asset has fallen back down into the $7,000 range. Granted the price is still in the higher section – $7,960 – but it’s still a significant drop from yesterday, when bitcoin was trading for around $8,100.Bitcoin Is Once Again Falling from GraceWhat this tells us is that the currency, despite all its past resilience, is unable to maintain the momentum it briefly had following the cryptocurrency bloodbath of late September....

Following very calm and steady trading days, where Bitcoin couldn’t overcome the significant 200-days moving average line (marked light green on the attached daily chart), the recent hours saw Bitcoin breaking down below $8000 for the first time in the past ten days.Many see the market bearish as long as Bitcoin is trading below the mentioned MA-200 (currently around $8800). After several failures trying to break back above the moving average line, Bitcoin price had gone away from the area,...

Now, anyone who is big on cryptocurrencies already knows that Anthony Pompliano is one of the biggest names in the crypto space and whatever he says is law. A such, he recently took to twitter to talk about HODL or keeping digital assets for a long period until such assets appreciate as the best investment strategy. The fact that he is the co-founder of Morgan Creek which is one of the premier Blockchain Venture capital partners in the world gives him credence as one of the “go-to” people...

Global investment platform eToro has announced its new sentiment-based crypto portfolio offering called TheTIE-Long-Only. For this, eToro has joined hands with a data analytics platform The TIE which can formulate an algorithm-based investment strategy.The input data for this sentiment-driven trading platform will be Twitter mentions. The social media platform Twitter has been the main platform for discussing crypto activities. Several popular analysts and companies share their trading...

ADA price is back in a bearish zone below the key $0.0400 support area against the US Dollar.The price is likely to extend its decline towards the $0.0375 or $0.0360 support.There was a break below a major bullish trend line with support near $0.0408 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken).The price could correct a few points, but the previous support near $0.0408 might prevent gains.Cardano price is currently declining against the US Dollar and bitcoin. ADA price remains at a risk of...

Brokerage firm eToro has brought a new tool to the market that’s supposed to help investors crack the code of investing in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin – crypto Twitter. In a recent blog, eToro announced that it is partnering with cryptocurrency information service provider TIE, which uses algorithms based on crowd-driven sentiment to develop trading strategies. Twitter can help you make money in bitcoin and crypto The brokerage firm points out that TheTIE-LongOnly CopyPortfolio will...

Bitcoin’s price action of late got the community rather bearish. A lot of popular analysts are suggesting that the price might plunge down to $6,000. As we’ve seen plenty of times in the past, however, Bitcoin often does the exact opposite so it’s quite interesting to see where the price will take from here. Bitcoin’s Price Recent Action And Bearish Sentiment Bitcoin’s price is moving in a range for the past few days. This comes after the fake breakout we saw back on October 11th when the...