Bitcoin (BTC)

Curtis Warren – a British drug lord who was found guilty of smuggling cannabis – is due to be released from prison next month. The authorities, though, will supposedly put him back behind bars for five years if he uses WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or interacts with cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin. Strict Measures to Stay on the Loose Warren (also known as “Britain’s Pablo Escobar”) has been a problematic figure for the European authorities for the past decades. In 1996,...

Dans un document adressé aujourd’hui au Conseil, au Parlement Européen, au Comité économique et social européen et au Comité européen des régions, la Commission Européenne invite les Etats à mettre en œuvre des mesures pour réduire la consommation d’électricité des mineurs de « crypto-actifs » pour faire face aux prix élevés de l’énergie, et à mettre fin aux allégements fiscaux bénéficiant aux mineurs dans certains États membres. Elle...

Bitcoin has made its first appearance in the Guinness World Records, now officially honored as the “first decentralized cryptocurrency.” Its inclusion was part of a larger category labeled “cryptomania”, under which many other blockchain-related phenomena were mentioned.  Famous Crypto Records According to the latest edition of the reference book, Bitcoin is the “oldest,” “most valuable,” and “first-decentralized” cryptocurrency.  Since its first-of-a-kind creation in 2009,...

Mike McGlone, a senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, believes Bitcoin is at its most discounted price on a 100-week and 200-week moving average. He also predicted that the crypto asset would trade 5x its current price in five to ten years. During a recent interview with Stansberry Research, McGlone opined that Bitcoin is getting pounded by the Federal Reserve and so is at its most discounted price.  Bitcoin Will Trade at $100k  The Bloomberg strategist is...

It seems that with the bitcoin and crypto markets doing so poorly as of late, crypto fanatics and traders are doing all they can to potentially make themselves feel better about the situation(s). Thus, the new narrative for bitcoin is not that it’s a hedge against inflation or that it’s digital gold. Rather, most crypto traders are telling themselves that “a bitcoin is a bitcoin.” Bitcoin Is What It Is What does that mean, exactly? Well, it seems to mean exactly what it...

Traduction du 221e bulletin d’information hebdomadaire de Bitcoin Optech par @copinmalin. 12 octobre 2022 La newsletter de cette semaine résume une proposition visant à permettre aux utilisateurs occasionnels de LN de rester hors ligne jusqu’à plusieurs mois d’affilée et décrit un document permettant aux serveurs d’information sur les transactions d’héberger des adresses de portefeuilles...

Michael Saylor – the CEO of institutional bitcoin bull and software giant MicroStrategy – has announced that he thinks bitcoin has what it takes to reach a price of $500,000 per unit within the next ten years and reach a market cap of roughly $10 trillion. Michael Saylor Still Thinks BTC Will Survive Saylor was confident in his proposal that bitcoin could potentially outdo gold, which up to this stage has been the primary investing tool for most individuals looking to...

« Parfois nommée seed phrase, phrase de récupération, 24 mots, ou encore phrase secrète, la phrase mnémonique est un encodage de la graine du portefeuille Bitcoin permettant d’en faciliter la sauvegarde. Elle a été introduite en 2013 avec le BIP 39 et c’est aujourd’hui un standard utilisé par l’extrême majorité des portefeuilles Bitcoin. » Réalisation : Loïc Morel pour Découvre Bitcoin Pour accéder au cours dans son intégralité...

Wieder einmal versucht die Umweltschutzorganisation Stimmung gegen den Cryptomarkt und Bitcoin im Speziellen zu machen. Doch inzwischen stellt sich die Frage, ob tatsächlich Umweltschutz oder Politik hinter der Kampagne steckt. Bitcoin News: Greenpeace mit Kampagne gegen BitcoinVor allem das Proof of Work Prinzip hinter dem BTC soll laut Greenpeace die „Klimakrise verschärfen und der Gemeinschaft schaden“. Das Crypto-Mining gilt als das zu lösende Problem, laut den Aktivisten, da hier...

Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has agreed to open its heart and mind to digital currency payments. The company announced in a statement that various stores throughout the United States are now going to accept various crypto assets for items like clothing and purses. Balenciaga Says “Yes” to Crypto The move is pushing the goals of bitcoin and its digital counterparts closer to being achieved. What many people likely forget is that while bitcoin and many of its crypto...