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« Comme on peut le voir sur le site de statistiques transactionfee.info, le pourcentage de transactions SegWit sur le réseau Bitcoin a atteint les 50,05% précisément, ce 14 septembre. Depuis, le taux se maintient au-dessus des 50%. Si toutes les transactions sur la blockchain BTC passaient par SegWit, le nombre de transactions par seconde verrait théoriquement sa capacité passée de 4 à 16 tx/s....

At press time, you may not think bitcoin is doing much… And you’d be right. In fact, the currency has barely swung at all over the past 1-2 weeks and has largely remained between $10,100 and $10,300. Volatility Has Dropped for BitcoinThis is because the currency has reached its lowest level of volatility since May of this year. This is a bit of a downer given that the currency isn’t spiking the way it was last April through July, but it’s also somewhat of a blessing. Those of us truly...

Roobee is an investment platform which aims to allow retail investors to spend as little as $10 in a broad variety of investment products which usually come with a high threshold. These include, but are not limited to IPOs, stocks, investment funds, cryptocurrencies, real estate, and others of the kind. The presumption behind the team’s concept and the main drive for the project is that the asset management industry is currently on the brink of monumental changes. Hence, they hold that in the...

The daughter of a Nigerian politician has been released after her father paid the kidnappers a $15,000 bitcoin ransom. On Saturday, Ai’sha Ardo, the daughter of Umar Ardo, a chieftain of the major Nigerian political party the People’s Democratic Party, endured a harrowing kidnapping in the country’s capital city of Abuja. The chieftain was contacted by one of the kidnappers the next day. The assailant told the politician that his daughter would be returned safely, but only if he paid the...

As the CEO of investing firm Blackstone, CEO Steve Schwarzman says that he’s used to a world where currencies are controlled by a central body, and thus he’s not a huge fan of how crypto is structured. Schwarzman: I Don’t Understand CryptoThis is to be expected from someone who’s been involved in traditional finance for most of his professional life. Having started the company in the mid-1980s, Blackstone has become one of the most successful trading platforms in the western hemisphere,...

American multinational megabank, Wells Fargo, has revealed its plans to launch a digitized platform which will be used for internal settlements. The service, Wells Fargo Digital Cash, as well as the company’s own U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, are slated for debut in 2020 and targeted at making USD transfers with a broader plan to accommodate transfers in other currencies within the whole Wells Fargo network.Wells Fargo is an American community-based financial services firm that offers...

Almost a year since American businessman William Sean Creighton was kidnapped in Costa Rica, and a $1 million ransom subsequently paid in Bitcoin, he has been confirmed dead. Creighton’s body was found in a cemetery on Costa Rica’s central pacific coast last week, nearly 12 months after the Bitcoin ransom was paid. According to ESPN, the death of the American entrepreneur who founded the 5Dimes sportsbook was confirmed by the officials of Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department on...

Marshal Lion Group is a company that dared to transfer its achievements in fiat finance to the blockchain platform. The company has been operating since 2015 in the non-bank lending market. During this time, more than 10 thousand satisfied customers made up the company’s portfolio. But there could have been even more of them, if not the well-known problems: the need for guarantees, intermediaries, the involvement of third parties, lengthy coordination and clarification. Marshal Lion Group...

Im Interview mit BlockTV erklärte Draper, dass seine berühmte 250.000 $ Bitcoin-Preisprognose konservativ ist. Der Risikokapitalgeber Tim Draper ist bezüglich des Bitcoin-Preises immer optimistisch. Anfang dieses Jahres prognostizierte Draper für die kommenden drei Jahre einen Bitcoin-Preis von 250’000 US-Dollar. Gegenwärtig hält er diese Vorhersage für zu konservativ:...

May 22 is popularly known as Bitcoin Pizza Day, as it marks arguably the most famous Bitcoin transaction ever. A Florida man named Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoins for two large pizzas on that day. With the Bitcoin price hovering at just over $10,000 today, that purchase now appears outrageous.However, the infamous transaction might prove to be a positive example of Bitcoin being used as a currency for payments, while the debate as to whether Bitcoin should be seen as a store of value or a...