Bitcoin (BTC)

The world’s leading cryptographic currency is trading over 40% higher than its average price on the eve of the November 5th US elections. Analysts agree that this is owing in large part to the promises of the Trump campaign and its allies to ensure that the federal government is fair to the innovative new Internet industry. But it’s also a repeat of a historic pattern in Bitcoin’s 4-year market supply cycle. Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood recently doubled down on her 2030 price...

Several base-layer blockchain cryptocurrencies that compete with Ethereum—because they are optimized for smart contracts and open-source currency issuance—rallied further up their price charts than ETH during the US election rally. Even Bitcoin gains beat Ether’s on this turn of the markets. For the 30 days ending Friday, Nov. 22, Bitcoin’s price gained 47%. Meanwhile, Sui Coin (SUI) jumped by 74%, Solana by 56%, and Polkdadot (DOT) rose by 44%, according to data compiled by...

« L’avenir du protocole Bitcoin soulève des questions cruciales : faut-il figer le code pour garantir la stabilité, le faire évoluer progressivement, ou opter pour une mutation radicale ? » Table ronde lors de la conférence Surfin’Bitcoin 2024 avec Abdelhamid Bakhta (Starkware), Antoine Riard (développeur Bitcoin Core), Dark Emi (Crypto OG) et Marius Farashi (Cryptoast).

Bitcoin’s inability to overcome the coveted $100,000 milestone on Friday and Saturday has resulted in a minor price decline to around $98,000 as of now. Several altcoins, such as XRP and DOGE, have plummeted as well in the past day, but others, like TON, DOT, and XLM, have charted double-digit surges. BTC Calms to $98K BTC traded at around $90,000 at the start of the business week but quickly started to gain traction and exploded above the previous all-time high of $93,800 by...

The US-based spot Bitcoin ETFs enjoyed a highly positive week, with every trading day ending with net inflows of millions and even billions of dollars. In stark contrast, the Ethereum counterparties ended the same five-day trading period deep in red territory. Over $3B Enter BTC ETFs Weekly It has been nothing short of a spectacular run for BTC’s price as well as the inflows in the spot Bitcoin ETFs in the US after Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the 2024 presidential...

Nick Neuman, the CEO of Bitcoin storage solutions provider Casa, recently shared an encounter with a phishing scammer impersonating Coinbase support to steal from high-value cryptocurrency holders. In a November 20 post on X, Neuman described how he played along during a call to uncover the depth of the scheme. Preying on Wealthy Crypto Holders The recorded conversation started as a seemingly ordinary phone call with the con artist posing as a Coinbase support agent. He...

Bitcoin (BTC) has been flirting with the $100,000 mark over the last 48 hours as optimism for a higher rally engulfs the market. As a result, investors have become very greedy. Data from the Crypto Fear and Greed Index, which tracks investor sentiment across the market, indicates that participants are in an extremely greedy phase. This is evident in the index figure rising above 90 to hit 94 for the first time in three years. Investors Become Extremely Greedy The fear and...

The crypto community mourns on X as the 2024 bull market seems to be over. No, this is not a drill, Jim Cramer said on national TV that bitcoin is a winner and he advised people to own BTC. If this isn’t a clear bear signal, we don’t know what is. Bitcoin Is a ‘Winner’ The host of CNBC’s Mad Money has frequently outlined somewhat controversial viewpoints and advice in his show. His success rate, at least when it comes down to crypto, has been… mixed. Actually, he has changed...

Présentation de Roozbeh Sarenche, chercheur à l’Université de Louvain, lors du Séminaire de cryptofinance organisé par Martino Grasselli, Ricardo Pérez-Marco et Cyril Grunspan à l’Institut Henri Poincaré le 21 novembre 2024. Titre : Time-Averaged Analysis of Selfish Mining in Bitcoin Langue : Anglais Résumé : Un mineur de Bitcoin disposant d’une puissance de minage suffisante peut adopter une stratégie de selfish mining (minage égoïste) pour augmenter ses revenus relatifs....

It’s been barely a few weeks since the pro-crypto candidate Donald Trump won the United States presidential elections, and the digital asset market still feels the impact of that victory. As the Trump administration prepares to take complete charge of affairs at the White House by January, crypto users anticipate what this could mean for the industry. According to a quarterly institution report by the digital asset exchange Bybit and the crypto research firm Blocks Scholes,...