Bitcoin (BTC)

Bitcoin’s price has been struggling to break above a significant resistance level and is currently experiencing a pullback, following the recent red days on Wall Street. Is it just a short-term correction or a beginning of a new bearish leg? Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, the price dropped shortly after getting rejected from the critical $25K level. The 50-day moving average around the $22K level would be the first likely support level,...

Bitcoin developer Marco Falke announced that he has stepped down as a maintainer for Bitcoin Core on Tuesday. There now remain just four maintainers of the protocol: Michael Ford, Hennadii Stepanov, Andrew Chow, and Gloria Zhao. Falke was Bitcoin Core’s single largest contributor, having proposed over 2000 individual changes to Bitcoin’s codebase – aka “commits” – in his lifetime.  During three of his seven years as maintainer, Falke was supported and sponsored by the crypto...

Matthew Klinger – a 51-year-old Jefferson City, Missouri resident – received five years of supervised probation after admitting to shooting a bitcoin ATM with a handgun. It remains unclear whether the machine had any faults, however, he said he did it “so that it could not take money from anyone else.” So Close to a Prison Sentence Recent coverage informed that Klinger arrived at Vapor Maven on Missouri Boulevard in August last year and requested to talk to the general...

The United Kingdom and its finance ministry is planning to lay the groundwork for new digital currency regulations following the collapse of popular digital currency exchange FTX. The United Kingdom Doesn’t Want Another FTX in the Books Financial Services Minister Andrew Griffith commented in a recent interview: Our view is that this reinforces the case for clear, effective, timely regulation and proactive engagement with [the] industry. This includes a proposal to bring...

A woman living in New York City is being accused of using crypto to fund a terrorist organization in Syria. 43-year-old Victoria Jacobs – who also operates under the alias Bakhrom Talipov – is now being charged with terrorism herself, along with money laundering and various other crimes. Victoria Jacobs Is in Big Trouble Jacobs is believed to have given the money to a group called Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a foreign terrorist organization currently designated as such by the...

There has been a tremendous transformation in the Bitcoin mining landscape since. Different countries have become the new harbors of miners. One European country has emerged as the world’s largest hash rate producer per capita. Owing to cheap electricity, Iceland is one of the first countries to see industrial-scale Bitcoin mining. According to Bitcoin mining researcher Jaran Mellerud, the country’s entrepreneurial locals can also be attributed to the growth of the sector....

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...