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Durchschnittlicher Strompreis für Haushalte* in der Schweiz in den Jahren 2012 bis 2023<br /> <br />(in Rappen pro Kilowattstunde) In Deutschland gibt es viele verschiedene Stromversorger, und die Preise für Strom können je nach Anbieter und Region stark variieren. Auch in der Schweiz warnte die Eidgenössische Elektrizitätskommission zu recht vor steigenden Strompreisen im Jahr 2023. Es gibt aber noch Orte, da ist der Strom günstig. Denn...

Solana price started a decent increase above the $22 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $22 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a major bullish trend line with support near $24.50 on the 4-hours chart of the SOL/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair must stay above the $23.40 and $22.60 support levels to start another increase. Solana price is trading above $22 against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin....

Bitcoin price started a fresh decline from the $25,200 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $24,000 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a key contracting triangle with support near $24,250 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could start a fresh increase if it stays above the $23,400 support zone. Bitcoin price is declining below $24,500 against the US Dollar. BTC might eye...

Crypto exchange Coinbase reported net revenue of $605 million in Q4 2022, according to its latest earnings report published after the bell on Tuesday. Since its release, COIN shares briefly jumped 3% to $64 before falling back to $62 in after-hours trading.  Coinbase Survives the Bear The exchange’s latest numbers present a 5% boost compared to the previous quarter’s $576 million figure, and a touch above analysts’ estimates of $588 million.  According to the company’s...

Despite the market turbulence brought about by collapses and scams, Coinshares’ Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marie Mognetti asserted that the group’s “financial health remained solid.” Its earnings did take a severe beating, though. CoinShares released the fourth-quarter report for 2022 in which it recorded £14.5 million in combined revenue, gains, and other income. This was a massive drop of 65% from the fourth quarter of 2021 when the European asset manager fetched a...

Alex Gladstein – CSO of the Human Rights Foundation – thinks bitcoin symbolizes some of the USA’s values based on the Declaration of Independence: free speech, property rights, and open capital markets. He argued that the primary cryptocurrency could thrive in democracies and struggle in totalitarian countries. ‘It’s Financial Privilege’  In a recent episode of Simply Bitcoin, Alex Gladstein presented himself as a keen advocate of the leading digital asset and pointed out its...

Venture capital money is fleeing crypto as regulators tighten their noose around the industry in a post-FTX crackdown, according to Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary. The investor claimed on Monday that VC funding is now headed toward artificial intelligence.  Why Regulators Are Mad During an interview published on Twitter, O’Leary described his experience attending various Capitol Hill hearings related to FTX’s collapse and interacting with the politicians involved.   “These...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Hope Finance suffered a $2 million exploit on February 20th. The hacker purportedly stole everything from the protocol genesis, according to its Twitter account, which was the first to announce that the community was scammed. The Arbitrum-based protocol also shared the information of the person while attaching a photograph with a voter’s card. The post alleged the hacker to be a Nigerian named Ugwoke Pascal Chukwuebuka who carried out the...

Chasing a bounty of over $2000, a coder has successfully imported the Ordinals NFT protocol to Litecoin.  The new functionality arrives shortly after Bitcoin – the network on which Ordinals initially launched – surpassed 150,000 inscriptions this week.  Why Litecoin Gets Ordinals On Sunday, a coder named Anthony Guerrera launched Litecoin Ordinals on GitHub by forking the Bitcoin repository for the project, published by Casey Rodarmor last month.  The Bitcoin-based version...

Major blockchain infrastructure platform Paxos Trust Company is holding discussions with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) concerning Binance stablecoin BUSD, according to a report by Reuters. The company earlier received a notice from New York authorities to cease minting BUSD. According to Reuters on Tuesday (Feb. 21, 2022), Charles Cascarilla, CEO of Paxos, sent an email to the firm’s employees on Feb. 18, informing them that the company is holding...