After months of political crisis, South Korea is organizing a presidential election tomorrow. Crypto is very high on the agenda since a third of the population owns digital currencies. Probably even more important is what the winner thinks about stablecoins. The digital currencies that allow you to easily convert your Korean Won into dollars (and […]
Ross Ulbricht made his first major public appearance this week, during the Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas. The founder of the legendary Silk Road website, where you could buy all kinds of (mostly illegal) stuff with Bitcoin, was released in January of this year thanks to a presidential pardon from President Donald Trump. Ross admitted […]
Earlier this week, both stock and crypto markets were going through a euphoric phase when a US judge ruled that the global ‘Trump tariffs’ (which he had implemented on Liberation Day in early April) were deemed illegal under US law. However, Trump’s team responded very quickly and appealed the ruling . Two days later, the […]
Earlier this week, a new crypto kidnapping was prevented in the French city of Nantes; The growing trend has by now become a state affair, with foreign press also following the trend closely. Crypto CEOs are forced to hire extra security personnel while the Ministry of the Interior continues to make more and more arrests. […]
Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, still has to appear in court in France. That doesn’t stop his company Telegram from launching a new investment round. As a result, Toncoin jumped 20% yesterday. Limits Toincoin, the cryptocurrency of social media platform Telegram, seemed to be doing very well at the beginning of last year and was […]
There doesn’t seem to be much crypto madness this time around, but rather a slow acceptance by investors and analysts that Bitcoin’s further rise is quite simply unstoppable. According to institutional investors on Wall Street, a price of $150,000 for Bitcoin will definitely be reached, although this time it seems to be happening more slowly […]
Several recent geopolitical developments have been positive for Bitcoin’s price, not least the recent weakness of the US dollar. The largest digital currency is trading very close to its all-time high and seems poised to make another leap upwards. Meanwhile, the tide also seems to have turned for WorldCoin, Sam Altman’s crypto project. New investment […]
We covered it in 2023 when it showed up in Seoul, South Korea and also after it happened several times in Paris, France, earlier this year. This time it is New York where another brutal case of crypto-kidnapping (and torture) has taken place. Gangnam In 2023, Seoul’s wealthy Gangnam district (the one from the famous […]
While Bitcoin is trading near its ATH this weekend, investors are already worrying about the next item on their list: the rising US debt ratio. If the Republican Party approves Donald Trump’s latest tax bill next week, the debt ratio of the world’s largest economy will grow from 100% to as much as 125% by 2030. […]
Earlier this year, on the weekend before his official inauguration, President Donald Trump launched his own memecoin which was of course called $TRUMP. It soared to unprecedented heights during that first weekend, with early buyers selling on Sunday when a rival $MELANIA memecoin was also launched. Golfclub Trump has learned how to capitalize on his […]
