Bitcoin (BTC)

Cathie Wood of Ark Investment Management said that she feels bitcoin – the world’s number one digital currency by market capitalization – could wind up hitting a price of $1.5 million by the year 2030. Cathie Wood Is Predicting Big Things for BTC This is a tad different from the comments she made in early January of this year. During that time, Wood was confident that bitcoin would only reach a price of $1 million by the year 2030. Now, it looks like she’s upping the...

La difficulté de minage de Bitcoin a battu un nouveau record, dépassant de plus de 9% le précédent sommet [1]. Rappelons que la difficulté est un paramètre qui varie de façon à maintenir un temps moyen de dix minutes entre deux blocs. Ce paramètre, mis à jour automatiquement tous les 2016 blocs (environ deux semaines), peut évoluer à la hausse ou à la baisse pour s’adapter à la puissance de...

Bitcoin didn’t react well to the latest PCE data coming from the US and dropped by almost a grand to a ten-day low. The altcoins also sit deep in the red, with the most substantial losses coming from MATIC, DOT, UNI, and others. Bitcoin Fell to $23K The end of last week went a lot better than this one as BTC skyrocketed by double-digits to chart a six-month high above $25,000. It failed to decisively overcome that line at first but kept trying. However, all three attempts saw...

Bitpanda ist eine der ganz grossen Bitcoin-Börsen, hat Schweizer Franken implementiert, verfügt über europäische Lizenzen und falls mal was ist, bekommt man Support in Deutscher Sprache geboten. Kurzum, Bitpanda ist eine beliebte Handelsplattform für Kryptowährungen und bietet seinen Benutzern eine Vielzahl von Funktionen, einschliesslich des sogenannten „Staking“. Staking ist eine Möglichkeit, Kryptowährungen zu verdienen, indem man sie in einem Wallet hält und damit dazu beiträgt, die...

Block (formerly known as Square) – an American multinational technology conglomerate founded by Jack Dorsey – disclosed $1.83 billion of bitcoin revenue generated from its Cash App payment service in Q4, 2022.  The figure was nearly $2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, and the company blamed the decline of the crypto market for the downturn. However, Block’s shares climbed nearly 7% after reporting positive overall financial results. BTC Revenue Drops 7% YoY Block’s...

Metaco, société suisse spécialisée dans la sécurisation d’actifs numériques, a annoncé mercredi une collaboration avec le groupe bancaire allemand DZ Bank [1]. Ce partenariat permettra aux clients institutionnels du groupe de bénéficier d’un service de garde de cryptomonnaies. « L’infrastructure de gestion des actifs numériques de Metaco est conçue pour aider les institutions financières à...

Bitcoin (BTC) sank back to $23,000 on Friday shortly after the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) price index registered a 5.4% annual increase, and a 0.6% monthly increase, in January. The higher-than-expected figure means the Federal Reserve’s war against rising inflation will likely continue.  Bitcoin started at roughly $24,000 on Friday, staying above $23,800 until about 13:30 UST – when January’s PCE figure was released.  The asset tumbled after that, falling as low...

Dogecoin has jumped by more than eight percent in recent weeks after it was announced that new Twitter CEO Elon Musk was considering the altcoin as a potential payment tool for users of the social media platform. Elon Musk Is Still Appreciative of Dogecoin To say that Elon Musk is a fan of Dogecoin would be an understatement. He has often been very kind to it, often calling it the “people’s crypto” and designating it as a method of payment for his many other companies,...

Bitcoin incurred a bit of a fall at the end of January after it was revealed that the Federal Reserve was going to potentially enforce another small rate hike. Everyone was on edge after the ongoing debacle that was 2022, and it was believed that the digital currency arena was going to be hit hard by the Fed’s actions, thus causing more turmoil. The Federal Reserve May Hike Rates Again At the time, bitcoin fell from about $23,000 – which it had struck just weeks before –...

Bitcoin wallet service provider BlueWallet has decided to shut down Lndhub.io, a Lightning Network node on the Bitcoin Network used to store and trade satoshis (sats) – the smallest denomination of the primary cryptocurrency. The Lightning Network is a layer-2 protocol layered on the Bitcoin protocol, used to process micropayments among participating nodes to facilitate faster transactions. BlueWallet is one of the most popular Bitcoin Lightning-enabled wallets on the...