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Michael Saylor – the CEO of MicroStrategy – says that bitcoin is a thousand times better than gold in a recent interview.Michael Saylor: BTC Beats the Pants Off GoldFor those who may be unfamiliar, MicroStrategy made headlines earlier this year when as a major institutional enterprise, it decided to purchase more than $400 million in bitcoin, making it one of the first institutions to come out and do so. It put all its money into the world’s number one digital currency by market cap, and it...

Bitcoin Bitcoin saw another 4% price hike this week, which had it breaking above the $16,000 level to reach as high as $16,491 today. The coin has since dropped slightly to trade at $16,135 at the time of writing. Last week, the coin had surged into the $16,000 level, which caused it to roll over and drop into the $14,850 support last Saturday. Bitcoin managed to rebound higher from there as it started to climb on Sunday. The coin did not return to $16,000 until Wednesday,...

Bitcoin Dossier im Magazin Schweizer des Monats Im Juni 2018 widmete der «Schweizer Monat», das älteste Monatsmagazin der Schweiz, ein Dossier der neuen Sprache des Geldes: Bitcoin. In der November-Ausgabe dieses Jahres kommen erneut namhafte Experten zu Wort. Unter anderem beleuchten Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Didi Taihuttu, Saifedean Ammous, Lucas Betschart und Vinay Gupta unterschiedliche Aspekte der Bitcoin-Revolution. Auch für erfahrene...

A group of researchers has located a new type of ransomware attack called Pay2Key executed against several Israeli and European companies. The perpetrators have requested the ransom to be paid with bitcoins, which the researchers have followed the funds to an Iranian cryptocurrency exchange. A New Ransomware Attack On Israeli And European Firms The updated research from the cybersecurity company CheckPoint reveals several that firms based in Israel have complained about being...

Bitcoin payments for passport services? You read that, right! In a first, a nearly 50-year-old U.S based passport and visa processing firm, Peninsula Visa, will now be accepting BTC for select passport services. Coinbase’s crypto payments arm, Coinbase Commerce, will be assisting the company in the same. Peninsula Visa Is Now Accepting Bitcoin For Passport Services In an official press release, Peninsula Visa announced its plan to integrate bitcoin payments for selected...

Bitcoin marches confidently towards new yearly highs while most alternative coins have failed in pursuit. Consequently, BTC’s dominance over the market has climbed above 65%. Red Dominates The Altcoins On a 24-hour scale, most alternative coins have either decreased in value or remained stagnant. Ethereum initiated a leg up towards $470, but the bears didn’t allow any further increases. In fact, they drove ETH’s price south, and the second-largest cryptocurrency struggles at...

The giant online payment processor announced yesterday that all “eligible PayPal account holders in the US can now buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrency directly with PayPal.” The update of the original statement reads that users can interact with digital assets from their PayPal application or through their desktop accounts. The cryptocurrency community remains split in its opinion-whether this is actually good for Bitcoin in the long run.  From one side, people believe that...

Hey Informanten, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 1013. Im heutigen Video geht’s um folgende Themen: Bitcoin Mining-Pool implementiert Zensur für BTC-Transaktionen, EU entscheidet im Januar 2021 über digitalen Euro & Paypal Crypto Services Start. 1.) Bitcoin Mining-Pool implementiert Zensur für...

[PRESS RELEASE] One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, Binance, announces the introduction of the Unifi Protocol on its Launchpool platform. Unifi has partnered with Binance to introduce its native UNFI token to the large Binance user base (more than 15 million users in 2019) via the upcoming event held on Binance’s Launchpool. The Launchpool platform was created by Binance to facilitate new digital asset farming for users, as well as to make it easier for...

Bitcoin cash price started a downside correction from the $278 swing high against the US Dollar.The price is now trading above the $250 support and testing the 55 simple moving average (4-hours).There is a major contracting triangle forming with resistance near $260 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair could either rally above the $260 resistance or it might dive below the $250 support.Bitcoin cash price is struggling to gain momentum above $260, while...