Bitcoin (BTC)

Après avoir acquis 6 455 bitcoins pour 161 millions de dollars à la fin du moins de mars, MicroStrategy vient d’augmenter son trésor de 1045 bitcoins supplémentaires acquis au prix moyen de 28 016 $. Ce dernier achat porte les avoirs de la société à environ 140 000 bitcoins d’une valeur proche de 4 milliards de dollars au prix actuel. Le prix d’achat moyen global serait de 29 803 $. L’annonce...

The Mintlayer sidechain allows users to build a decentralized ecosystem on the Bitcoin blockchain, opening it up to DeFi, Smart Contracts, Atomic Swaps, NFTs, and dApps.  Bitcoin sidechain Mintlayer has announced the launch of a $4 million open-source development grants initiative and the start of accepting applications. The grants program launch is the “first major ecosystem initiative in Mintlayer’s long-term development” and is reserved for projects that will directly benefit the...

Earlier today, we published an article talking about a lawsuit between Alameda Research and Grayscale. The former is suing the latter and claims it’s holding roughly $9 billion in investment funds that can (and should) be going to its many customers. Grayscale Is Going After the SEC As it turns out, Grayscale is involved in a whole separate lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Not long ago, the agency turned down the company’s application for a...

MicroStrategy is unrelenting with its Bitcoin purchases as it recently spend more than $29 million on over 1,000 BTC. MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) has continued amassing more Bitcoin and has purchased an additional 1,045 BTC. The business intelligence firm announced it spent $29.3 million on the recent purchase, at an average of $28,016 per Bitcoin. According to a tweet from co-founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy’s portfolio now has 140,000 Bitcoins. The company...

All eyes are on bitcoin yet again as Jerome Powell – the man in charge of the Federal Reserve – said in a recent interview that his office is not above faster, larger rate hikes in 2023, and that they could come sooner than most people anticipate. Bitcoin Could Suffer with More Rate Hikes There is great fear of more rate hikes given they swarmed 2022, a time that was extremely bearish for bitcoin. Inflation was soaring and the economy was in dire straits thanks to the...

MicroStrategy, the Michael Saylor-founded business intelligence giant, which is also the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, made another notable purchase ($29.3 million worth of the asset). It helped the company to round up its massive BTC stash to 140,000. After several months of keeping relatively quiet when the cryptocurrency’s price was struggling below $20,000, the NASDAQ-listed firm began accumulating bitcoin in March when it bought another batch of 6,500 BTC....

PostFinance partners with Sygnum Bank to offer cryptocurrencies PostFinance, eines der führenden Finanzinstitute und die grösste Retailbank der Schweiz, schliesst eine Partnerschaft mit Sygnum, der weltweit ersten Bank für digitale Vermögenswerte. Ziel ist es, den Kunden eine Reihe von regulierten Bankdienstleistungen für digitale Vermögenswerte über die B2B-Bankplattform von Sygnum anzubieten. Die Partnerschaft von PostFinance mit der Sygnum Bank...

Bitcoin-Basel: BLS Schifffahrt: Proof-Of-Visit NFT Kollektion Die BLS Schifffahrt kündigt die Einführung ihrer Proof-Of-Visit NFT-Kollektion an, die speziell für Besucherinnen und Besucher des berühmten Bootsstegs in Iseltwald am Brienzersee, Schweiz entwickelt wurde. Die innovative neue Kollektion ermöglicht es Gästen, ihre Erinnerungen auf einzigartige Weise in Form eines Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) festzuhalten. BLS Schifffahrt setzt damit einen...

Alameda Research – an affiliate of the now defunct crypto exchange FTX – is suing Grayscale, the world’s largest bitcoin trust. The company claims Grayscale is unlawfully holding investments and refuses to unlock them so customers can receive due payments. Alameda Research Is Suing Grayscale Alameda was at the center of controversy several months ago when it was alleged Sam Bankman-Fried – the man behind both that firm and FTX – used customer funds from the latter firm...

PostFinance partners with Sygnum Bank to offer cryptocurrencies PostFinance, one of Switzerland’s leading financial institutions and largest retail banks, partners with Sygnum, the world’s first digital asset bank, to offer its customers a range of regulated digital asset banking services via Sygnum’s B2B banking platform. PostFinance’s partnership with Sygnum Bank enables the launch and ongoing expansion of regulated, bank-grade digital asset...