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The U.S. government has hired a new comptroller of the currency, and his name is Brian Brooks. What makes Brooks so interesting? He’s a bitcoin and blockchain bull and a former attorney for Coinbase. How ironic that he would work in an administration headed by Donald Trump, who in the past, has expressed negative opinions of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.Brian Brooks: Blockchain Gives Us Great PowerIn a recent interview, Brooks explained that he sees blockchain as a major turning point...

It looks like bitcoin and cryptocurrency has got the U.S. government and the pentagon a little on edge.Bitcoin Is Scaring Top Government PlayersThe U.S. Department of Defense has revealed that it is planning for what could potentially be a bitcoin revolution. The government body has listed several potential scenarios in its roster that could see an uprising of Generation Z and members potentially using bitcoin and other forms of crypto to somehow go against the present government system.It’s...

It looks like bitcoin may have been hovering at around $10K all over again, though at the time of writing, it has failed to cross that mark. In fact, the currency has fallen by about $300 or so.Bitcoin Rises and Falls… AgainJust yesterday, the currency spent the early morning hours meandering about the high $9,900 position. This was its highest position in a little over a week, but as we’ve seen before, $10K is proving to be yet another hardcore resistance point on the bitcoin ladder. On...

Hey Informanten, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 902. Heute sprechen wir über folgende Themen: 500 Estland Krypto Firmen verlieren Lizenz, Quadriga Exchange war ein Ponzi & DeFi zeigt exponentielles Wachstum. Die heutige Show wird gesponsert von Bitwala Blockchain Banking – Erhalte 35 Euro für dein kostenloses deutsches Konto inkl. Debit Masterkarte und Bitcoin Wallet – https://bit.ly/Bitwala-Banking 1.) 500 Estonian Crypto Companies Lose Permits After...

Despite a particularly shaky month, new research suggests that bitcoin miners pulled in a hefty amount of revenue in May – the month of the highly-anticipated third halving.The Halving Didn’t Affect Bitcoin Earnings MuchMay really had everyone up in arms over the halving. The event had people excited just as much as it had them worried. Crypto analysts went back and forth about what would happen following the halving. Crypto would go up very quickly; it would come down with a thundering...

One of the big worries surrounding the growth of the crypto space is that there is allegedly a lack of institutional investors, but according to the latest data from Fidelity Investments, this may not necessarily be the case.Fidelity: Most Institutional Investors Own Digital CurrencyAccording to the financial firm, roughly 36 percent of institutional players own crypto investments, and most of them own bitcoin, which remains the most popular digital currency. It is widely stated by...

Elon Musk is at the center of another crypto scam, only this time, instead of the scam occurring via Twitter, the hackers have seemingly taken over Musk’s YouTube account.Musk: Report This as Soon as You See ItMalicious actors appear to have posed as SpaceX on the video-streaming affiliate of Google. Those involved took over two separate accounts and provided footage of Musk speaking at the recent launch that occurred in Florida. The accounts offered a fake bitcoin giveaway, in which viewers...

Hey Informanten, willkommen zur Bitcoin-Informant Show Nr. 901. Heute sprechen wir über folgende Themen: MakerDao steigt 100 Prozent in 30 Tagen, Markteinbruch „innerhalb 3 Wochen“ & Nutzer gibt 2,5 Millionen Dollar Gebühr für 0,5 ETH aus. Die heutige Show wird gesponsert von Bitwala Blockchain Banking – Erhalte 35 Euro für dein kostenloses deutsches Konto inkl. Debit Masterkarte und Bitcoin Wallet – https://bit.ly/Bitwala-Banking 1.) MakerDAO: Der Siegeszug geht...

If you live in Australia or New Zealand, you can buy a Coke with bitcoin thanks to the work of a cryptocurrency company known as Centrapay.Centrapay Opens the Door to BTC PaymentsRemember what a big deal it was when bitcoin was used to purchase pizza roughly ten years ago? While the transaction itself is not that important, the idea behind it is. This is because bitcoin was originally designed to be a method of payment, alongside most of the world’s cryptocurrencies. However, it has...

Market analyst Alessio Rastani is bullish about both the U.S. stock market and bitcoin.Alessio Rastani: You Probably Shouldn’t Buy for a BitWhen it comes to stocks, however, he’s a little more unsure and believes that the currency is entering a “risky zone.” He doesn’t believe that the monster-sized crash that arrived in March was a correction, as so many other analysts have claimed. In his eyes, the crash came on too quickly and was too large to amount to a simple correction of sorts. He...