Bitcoin (BTC)

The government of Australia has hinted it’s going to be implementing cryptocurrency regulations in 2023. The announcement comes on the heels of the FTX collapse, which will likely go down as one of the biggest embarrassments of the crypto space. Australia Could Regulate Crypto Next Year Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers has stated that regulators are eager to ensure crypto traders remain protected. Chalmers acknowledges that digital currency trading in Australia is...

The Bitcoin-focused investment group, New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG), released a report in September examining how Bitcoin’s protocol has managed to attract such wide adoption despite its tiny developer ecosystem.  Here are the highlights: The network, which launched in early January 2009, has only 40-60 monthly active developers, according to the report.  This is not a static bunch. 1,140 developers have contributed to Bitcoin over its lifetime, with 5 to 10 new...

The latest PCE data announced by the US yesterday brought little volatility to the crypto market, in which BTC dropped by a few hundred dollars but recovered almost immediately. The altcoins are still on a daily scale, with a few exceptions in the likes of Terra Classic, Decentraland, and Lido. Bitcoin Remains Chill at $17K Bitcoin dropped to a 3-week low on December 20 at $16,300 but reclaimed almost all lost value in less than a day. Another price decline two days later saw...

Cryptocurrency exchange OKX released its second Proof of Reserves (PoR) on its website on December 22nd. The new report would enable users to view and self-verify the results of two PoRs with the help of open-source tools, the company said in an official statement. OKX also promised to publish the PoR report every month. OKX’s Proof-of-Reserves The report shows that OKX’s wallets held 113,754 BTC against a user balance of 112,192 BTC as of December 20th, 14:00 UTC. It has a...

Quite a lot has been going on in the cryptocurrency industry over the past seven days, but most of it failed to impact the price action,Week’s remains rather dull. Can’toin is trading below $17K, down about 2.9% in the past seven dParents’ble to recover the coveted level. The volatility has seemingly disappeared from the market, but that’s not necessarily truparents’e altcoins. All of them are trading in the red, with the most considerable loss being that of Cardano which...

The US Personal Consumption Expenditures price index (PCE) increased by 0.1% in November compared to October and by 4.7% compared to a year ago. As the world’s most powerful economy made the announcement, BTC reacted with minor price volatility. The US Commerce Department outlined the PCE increase on Friday. The metric is typically the go-to point for the Federal Reserve, as it provides a clearer picture of consumer prices. The 5.5% jump in the Core PCE (which includes food...

2022 has been an atrocious year for cryptocurrency. Many digital asset companies have been forced into dark places and filed for bankruptcy, and it looks like leading blockchain firm Block Fi might be next. Things Aren’t Looking Good for Block Fi Throughout 2022, the crypto space has been hit harder than it ever has in its short, 14-year history. Bitcoin, for example, has dropped from its all-time high of about $68,000 per unit – which it achieved in November of last...

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Bitcoin.fr fête aujourd’hui ses 12 ans et poursuit imperturbablement son modeste chemin. Comme tous les quatre ans (décembre 2014, décembre 2018, décembre 2022), c’est un anniversaire en « bear market ». Pas d’inquiétudes cependant car, en dehors de ces creux quadriennaux, les autres mois de décembre ont été beaucoup plus joyeux. Je ne reviendrai pas sur les circonstances de la création du...