Bitcoin (BTC)

Joseph James O’Connor, one of the perpetrators of the massive Twitter hack last year, has been charged with yet another crime that involves the theft of $784,000 worth of cryptocurrencies via a SIM swapping scam. Charged With Crypto Theft Reuters reported that U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan said the fraudulent scheme, which ran from March to May 2019, saw the 22-year-old alongside his accomplices targeting three cryptocurrency company executives. The prosecutors noted that...

Michael Saylor – the man behind software firm MicroStrategy – has become a certified BTC billionaire. Saylor Has a Lot of Bitcoin Both Saylor and his company have done remarkable well when it comes to bitcoin investments. MicroStrategy has continued to invest in the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, adding approximately 9,000 individual units during the September quarter alone. Overall, MicroStrategy owns about 114,000 units of BTC at press time, all of...

Peter Thiel – a tech billionaire and the co-founder of PayPal – said in a recent interview that bitcoin’s recent price surge is a massive sign of incoming inflation, which apparently is getting worse by the minute. Peter Thiel: Bitcoin Is Now a Victim of Inflation In a recent interview, Thiel said the economy was facing a major crisis, and that inflation was the highest it has been in roughly 13 years. He commented: You know, $60,000 bitcoin, I’m not sure that one should...

Eric Adams – New York’s newly elected mayor – has just confirmed that he will accept his first three paychecks in Bitcoin. This comes shortly after the mayor delivered an electoral victory speech promising to make New York “a center for Bitcoin.” In New York we always go big, so I’m going to take my first THREE paychecks in Bitcoin when I become mayor. NYC is going to be the center of the cryptocurrency industry and other fast-growing, innovative industries! Just wait! —...

Madhur Deora – CFO of Paytm – recently said that his company might enable Bitcoin offerings if it gains permission from Indian regulators. Paytm is one of India’s largest mobile payment platform, meaning over 330 million users could gain access to simplified Bitcoin payments if the company follows through. Waiting on Regulator’s Permission The CFO hinted at possible Bitcoin services in an interview with Bloomberg this Thursday. In conversation with Haslinda Amin and Rishaad...

Erstes Büro in der Schweiz: Bitmex plant nach Europa zu expandieren. Das sind mal News, denn Bitmex ist eine der granz grossen Bitcoin-Börsen. Erhält die Schweiz endlich eine echte Bitcoin-Börse? Mit Hauptsitz auf den Seychellen, einem Inselstaat im Indischen Ozean, ist Bitmex eine der weltweit führenden Kryptobörsen für Bitcoin-Derivate. In einer Mitteilung am letzten Sonntag gab das Unternehmen bekannt, im Januar 2022 ein Büro, entweder in Zug...

The town of Rockdale, Texas is small and doesn’t have much of a population. It may not seem like the city has much to offer, but for bitcoin miners, the amount of open space combined with low energy costs is a dream come true, and two big companies – Bit Deer and Riot Blockchain – are duking it out for dominance over the area. Rockdale Is the Envy of Major BTC Miners Both companies are within proximity of each other. In fact, Bit Deer – a division of Bitmain, arguably...

Dans le cadre d’une discussion publique entre Changpeng Zhao (Cz) et Cédric O [1] qui s’est déroulée hier à Bercy, le CEO de Binance [2] a annoncé qu’il envisageait d’investir 100 millions de dollars pour soutenir les entreprises françaises et européennes du secteur des cryptomonnaies et pour créer un centre de recherche à Paris. Selon Gregory Raymond, journaliste au magazine Capital, cet investissement sera toutefois...

CME Futures, the futures-exchange giant that offers regulated bitcoin services, has secured a massive investment from Google worth $1 billion aiming to transfer its core trading systems to the cloud. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, and informs that the tech giant will provide its cloud services to CME to “power markets that handle trillions of dollars in trades each day.” The two parties have agreed on a ten-year partnership. CME will strive to onboard...

The leader of the Iran Blockchain Association (IBA) – Abbas Ashtiani – opined that the country’s central bank (CBA) is not capable of implementing a comprehensive regulatory framework on digital assets. As such, the authorities need to develop an “independent counsel” to resolve the issues. How Will Iran Regulate Crypto? Imposing regulations on the digital asset industry is a policy that each government takes quite individually. While China completely banned crypto mining and...