Bitcoin (BTC)

Bitcoin’s volatile performance as of late continued in the past 24 hours as the asset touched $25,000 once again before falling back down by $500. Several altcoins are well in the green as well, with OKB stealing the show and tapping a new all-time high beyond $50. Bitcoin Stopped at $25K Again It was just several days ago when the primary cryptocurrency had dipped to $21,500 amid the ongoing regulatory scrutiny by the United States authorities. However, the landscape changed...

François Saltiel sur France Culture accueille Stanislas Barthélémi, manager crypto et web3 chez KPMG Blockchain Partner, et la journaliste indépendante Nastasia Hadjadji dans l’émission Le Meilleur des mondes du Vendredi 17 février 2023.

The largest creditors of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox have chosen a payment option that will allow them to receive a lump sum of their recovery payout in bitcoins rather than fiat. The creditors, now-defunct crypto exchange Bitcoinica and Mt Gox Investment Fund (MGIF), collectively represent about one-fifth of the bankruptcy claims. Gox Biggest Creditors Choose Bitcoin Payment Both entities have opted to receive up to 90% of their claims in BTC during the early...

Le 5 mai 2023, la Bitcoinference réunira à La Baule quelques-uns des experts français les plus renommés de Bitcoin et des cryptos : Pierre Noizat, cofondateur de Paymium, une des plus anciennes plateformes d’échange de bitcoins au monde, Sébastien Gouspillou, fondateur de BigBlock Datacenter, société créée nantaise qui exploite les surcapacités énergétiques pour miner du bitcoin, Guillaume...

North Korea has long done anything and everything it could to get its hands on crypto. There’s no doubt about that. At this stage, it’s obvious the nation is trying to garner digital assets so it can fund its ongoing nuclear program. However, until now, we’ve always been afraid of Lazarus, as this is the main state-funded hacking organization trying to garner illicit crypto through stealing, cyberattacks, and thievery. North Korea Has a New Group Stealing Crypto It now...

The past seven days saw Bitcoin’s price increase by a whopping 10% in a few violent green candles that took place in the span of a couple of days. This brought a lot of positivity to the industry, and the total capitalization is also up by about $100 billion. At the time of this writing, BTC trades at around $24K, but it managed to paint a fresh high of above $25K for the first time since the summer of 2022. This has also had an impact on the entire market, as most of the...

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester M. Peirce – who’s often dubbed the “crypto mom” thanks to her open-minded nature towards bitcoin and crypto – is calling for strict regulation of the space and says this will provide more clarity for traders and help to keep investors shielded from bad actors. Hester Peirce Says It’s Time to Regulate Crypto In an interview, Peirce said: If we continued with our regulation-by-enforcement approach at our current...

Shortly after legally going after Do Kwon and Terraform Labs, the US Securities and Exchange Commission asserted that the former cashed out 10,000 bitcoin after his brainchild collapsed. Kwon has been on the run ever since the crash last year, reportedly currently hiding in Serbia. As reported by Bloomberg, the latest allegations from the US securities watchdog indicate that Kwon used an unnamed Swiss bank to cash more than $100 million worth of BTC between “June 2022 and the...

Eine Reproduktion der ersten Internetseite. Foto: CERN Europäische Organisation für Kernforschung Das Internet hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten die Art und Weise verändert, wie wir kommunizieren, Informationen finden und unsere Freizeit verbringen. In der Schweiz war es das CERN, das das erste Internetangebot des Landes schuf. CERN (Europäische Organisation für Kernforschung) Das CERN (Europäische Organisation für Kernforschung) mit Sitz in Genf war...

Cash App adds Lightning as payment method. $cashtag Das Bitcoin Lightning-Netzwerk ist eine Second-Layer-Skalierungslösung für das Bitcoin-Netzwerk. Es wurde entwickelt, um das Hauptproblem von Bitcoin – langsame Transaktionsgeschwindigkeiten und hohe Transaktionsgebühren – zu lösen. Schnell und günstig Das Lightning-Netzwerk ist ein Netzwerk von Bidirektionalen Zahlungskanälen, die es Benutzern ermöglichen, Bitcoin-Transaktionen schneller und...