Bitcoin (BTC)

Bitcoin is great and having a romantic relationship with someone can also be rather rewarding, but as we’re learning in recent days, the two don’t always go together. A woman that used the dating app Hinge now has an empty wallet after someone posing as potential boyfriend material scammed her out of more than $300,000 in bitcoin. Bitcoin Was the Target, Not a Romantic Relationship The unnamed woman – who is 33 years of age at the time of writing – says that she became...

Bitcoin underwent some volatile days over the past week, facing its first geopolitical severe conflict throughout its relatively short lifetime. The macro fear has yet to cool down, but judging by the last few days, bitcoin surprised the investor with a huge bounce back from $34K. This buying pressure was from FTX and Bitfinex exchanges and pushed the price to $40K, in correlation with Wall Street’s Thursday reversal (Nasdaq saw a 7% intraday surge). The uncertainty and fear...

The White House, alongside the European Commission, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy, announced in the late hours of Saturday evening that they would be expelling certain Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system. In a joint statement, the parties wrote that: “This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally.” While also pledging the […] “restrictive measures that will prevent...

Jack Dorsey’s fintech startup Block (formerly known as Square) disclosed its gross profit for Q4 2021 stood at $1.18 billion, which is an increase of 47% year over year. In addition, the company’s sellers have adopted more of Square’s ecosystem over time, the firm added. Exceeding Results The American financial services and digital payments company – Block, Inc. – announced its revenue for the past year totaled $4.42 billion. In comparison, analysts estimated this number to...

L’entonnoir du bitcoin est un Live stream à retrouver tous les dimanches à 18h00 sur Twitter. On y parle exclusivement de Bitcoin et de son actualité. Quand ? – Le dimanche à 18h00 Où ? – Sur Twitter Pour écouter les épisodes précédents : decouvrebitcoin.com/lentonnoir-du-bitcoin ...

Avec : Jérémy Wauquier et Daniel Villa Monteiro d’Alyra, cofondateurs d’Alyra, une école offrant des formations dans le domaine des blockchains et des cryptomonnaies. Réalisation : Univers Bitcoin, « podcast crypto francophone où l’on parle des fondamentaux du bitcoin mais pas que… » A retrouver sur :– Itunes : podcasts.apple.com– Spotify : open.spotify.com– Deezer : deezer.com– Google Podcast : podcasts.google.com– Twitter : twitter.com/Univers_Bitcoin– Youtube :...

Amid being invaded by its eastern neighbor, which caused significant disruption to its financial networks, Ukraine and its authorities sought donations in cryptocurrencies. The community and other people responded swiftly with reports indicating that more than $13 million worth of digital assets were sent to the provided addresses. Ukraine Seeks Help in Crypto After weeks of increasing tension between the two former Soviet states, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a...

Un message publié hier sur un compte twitter officiel du gouvernement de l’Ukraine, appelle aux dons en cryptomonnaie : Soyez aux côtés du peuple ukrainien. Nous acceptons désormais les dons de cryptomonnaie : Bitcoin, Ethereum et USDT. BTC – 357a3So9CbsNfBBgFYACGvxxS6tMaDoa1P ETH et USDT (ERC-20) – 0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F9358d18A45e14 Différentes personnalités ont confirmé...

It looks like Russia has invaded Ukraine. The announcement was made early this week and the results are a lot of fear hanging in the air and the price of bitcoin continuing to behave in a bearish manner. Bitcoin Incurs a Major Slip The currency was ultimately doing better than it had been in previous weeks. Bitcoin had shot up to $40,000+, and after traveling south during the final two months of 2021, it appeared that maybe 2022 was going to be the time for bitcoin to...

It looks like cryptocurrency could really help with remittance payments and boost worker salaries in Africa. Study in Africa Shows the Power of Crypto A study was conducted in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. In this nation – and several other nations of Africa – a new industry referred to as microwork has emerged over the past ten years. Microwork is the practice of breaking up large tasks into smaller ones so they can be tackled by many people at once. This is a huge...