Bitcoin (BTC)

A Guatemalan circular Bitcoin economy known as “Bitcoin Lake” is leveraging Bitcoin ASICs to clean the nearby Lake Atitlán while generating income for the community.  As Bitcoin Lake Founder Patrick Melder explained, the “Kaboom” mining project is repurposing used cooking oil to help mine Bitcoin, rather than pollute the local environment.  Mining Helping the Environment? As Melder told Bitcoin Magazine, the project is a follow-up to prior attempts at cleaning the lake that...

There’s a new crypto bank in town. Known as Buy Bitcoin Bank, the digital currency firm is looking to ensure all crypto traders have the tools, resources, and education they need to trade intelligently and make appropriate decisions when it comes to adding digital currencies to their portfolios. Buy Bitcoin Bank Is Pushing for Stronger Education There’s nothing wrong with investing, nor is there anything wrong with diversifying one’s portfolio. However, what can be...

Le prochain meetup BECRYPTO aura lieu lundi 26 septembre à 19h00. ATTENTION ! Il se déroulera à SOIGNIES, au MAD Coworking, 37 rue de Mons – 7060 Soignies Avec une belle présentation, très attendue en cette période de cours incertain… Un point sur l’état des marchés cryptos, par Cara. Cara est un trader entré très tôt dans le monde des cryptomonnaies et du trading. Esprit pragmatique et...

After the recent volatility and the latest multi-month low, bitcoin has calmed slightly around the $19,000 mark. Most alts have painted insignificant losses today, while Dogecoin has emerged as the top performer from the large-cap ones. Bitcoin Battles for $19K The past several days were quite volatile for BTC, starting with the dip to $18,300 on September 19. At the time, that marked a three-month low for the asset. Bitcoin went on the offensive in the following hours and...

« Que se passera-t-il se passera quand les 21 millions de bitcoin seront tous minés, ou quasiment tous minés ? J’ai passé pas mal de temps à approfondir le sujet cette semaine. Dans cette vidéo je suis d’abord vous présenter les inquiétudes formulées par Vitalik Buterin lui-même. Ensuite on va discuter de la façon dont bitcoin maintiendra sa sécurité dans le futur et je finirai par vous donner mon avis personnel sur la question suivante : Est-ce que Bitcoin est condamné à échouer...

Bitcoin utilise des fonctions de hachage cryptographique pour lier les pages de la Timechain, mais aussi pour générer des adresses Bitcoin. L’objectif est de transformer une information de taille arbitraire en une information de taille fixe. Une fonction de hachage fonctionne dans un seul sens. A partir de n’importe quel contenu, nous pouvons générer un hachage (une empreinte numérique) mais à partir d’un hachage, il n’y a aucun moyen de retrouver le contenu qui lui est associé....

Singapore says it’s considering introducing new laws that will make it much harder for crypto retail investors to trade digital assets during this time. The nation’s regulators say they are truly concerned about the ongoing risks involved with virtual money. Singapore Is Worried About Crypto Trading Singapore has stated that many people getting involved in crypto are simply doing so because they are experiencing fear of missing out or “FOMO.” Regulators say people are...

The past seven days were quite painful in the cryptocurrency market as the majority of it is trading well in the red. This resulted in $40 billion being lost from the total capitalization, which is inching closer to $900 billion. The most obvious outlier in this is Ripple’s XRP which soared by 50%. Let’s unpack. Bitcoin’s price is currently sitting slightly below $19,000, down 5.7% in the past week. Seven days ago, it was trading at around $19,500 and even managed to poke...

Ethereum – the world’s second largest digital currency by market cap and the number one competitor to bitcoin – allegedly experienced its turn from proof of work (PoW) to proof of stake (PoS) just over a week ago. Ethereum Has Completed the “Merge” Many are wondering how much energy is slated to be saved now that Ethereum has made the move it’s been talking about for the past God knows how many years, and according to one analyst, Ethereum is slated to bring its energy...

Bitcoin took another hefty fall in late August. The world’s number one digital currency by market cap fell to just over $20,000 following the speech given by Jerome Powell of the Fed in which he talked about the state of the economy. Bitcoin Is Continuing to Experience Bearish Trends Powell hinted that more rate hikes were likely in order, meaning bitcoin is set to suffer further at the hands of what can only be considered, at this point, to be an extremely incompetent...