Bitcoin (BTC)

The House Financial Services Committee has approved new legislation that’s set to create a regulatory framework in the United States for digital currency trading. New Crypto Legislation Heads for the U.S. The legislation was largely pushed by republicans, though six democrats – including representatives Jim Himes of Connecticut, Steven Horsford of Nevada, Wiley Nickel of North Carolina, and Brittany Pettersen of Colorado – joined them in their efforts to cement...

Tim Draper of Draper Associates recently took part in an interview in which he commented that bitcoin is likely to outdo all other digital currency assets, and that it will maintain its position at the top of the virtual food chain. Tim Draper: The Ever-Loving BTC Fanatic He commented: I think we are going to see bitcoin rise above the other cryptos. Having a bank and government decide on what currency is good is not as effective as having a bitcoin where there is...

Gideon Powell – the chief executive of Texas-based petroleum company Cholla Inc. – thinks bitcoin miners are revolutionary people that are bringing new levels of innovation to the U.S. Gideon Powell on What Makes BTC Miners Important In an interview, he said: Thinking about this from a capability standpoint, the ‘compute cowboys’ are unlocking new power markets for data centers and thinking about the future of industrial manufacturing. It’s all in its infancy....

XRP and Bitcoin Spark (BTCS) have gained significant attention within the crypto community for their unique features. Let’s delve into their technological differences and see how each of them is contributing to the growth of cryptocurrency. What is XRP? XRP is a cryptocurrency created by Ripple, whose main focus is improving international money transfers for financial institutions by enabling them to settle transactions quickly, efficiently, and at low costs. XRP is used...

Bitcoin spiked to a multi-day high above $26,400 yesterday, but that was short-lived, and the asset has returned to a familiar sight at under $26,000. The altcoins are also slightly in the red today, with BNB, ADA, and SOL retracing by over 1%. BTC Fails at $26K Bitcoin’s price performance has been anything but impressive for the past 10 days or so, ever since it shot up by $2,000 and then dumped by almost $3,000 days later after Grayscale’s win over the SEC. The subsequent...

L’équipe de Liana vient d’annoncer la sortie de la version 2.0 de son wallet Bitcoin. Liana tire parti des possibilités ouvertes par les timelocks (les verrouillages temporels) des scripts Bitcoin pour une meilleure sécurité des fonds ou pour permettre à vos héritiers d’accéder à vos btc quand vous ne serez plus là. « Il s’agit d’une version majeure, mais vous ne verrez pas beaucoup de différences...

Conférence de François Jolain dans le cadre des rencontres organisées par Bitcoin Lausanne. Source : https://www.youtube.com/@codabletv

Ethereum is now eight years of age, and many experts have come out to praise the world’s second largest digital currency by market cap. Ethereum is Now Eight Years Old! Ethereum first emerged in 2015 and was designed to be more of a network rather than a currency. This has worked well over the years given how much popularity it’s earned amongst developers who prefer its technology to bitcoin’s when it comes to creating new blockchains and assets. Not long ago,...

The market has been relatively calm throughout the past seven days, and it failed to deliver any substantial increase (or decrease) in most of the cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin. Starting with the BTC price, it’s more or less where it was this time last week – slightly below $26,000. To be fair, the cryptocurrency is down around 0.8% over the past seven days, and it wasn’t for the past day, the week looked as if it never happened. The price hovered around $26K in search...

The decision by the FASB to allow fair-value accounting for digital assets is a huge step forward for companies like MicroStrategy. Software developer MicroStrategy Inc (NASDAQ: MSTR) is set to report its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings quarterly without recognizing impairment losses in case of crypto price declines during the reporting period. This development comes as a result of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) approving new guidelines. Berenberg, a respected investment bank, has...