Bitcoin attained a new all-time-high in the past 24 hours, pushing the price to above $19,700 on several platforms for one coin at a certain point. At the time of writing, it is trading for $19,500. Most analysts were surprised that only four days after Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention lost some $3,000 in a 15% fall, […]
Among Twitter’s trending keywords this week in the US (still the largest market for crypto enthusiasts) were the usual suspects of “DiaperDon” (referring to Donald Trump sitting at a small desk whilst scoffing at reporters) and “StopTheSteal” (referring to a conspiracy theory claiming that Joe Biden stole the election) next to the mysterious Utah monolith.One […]
The past week saw a whiplash ending to the upswing of Bitcoin (and other altcoins) when Thanksgiving brought an early Black Friday sale for the cryptosphere. Just as Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention was about to touch it’s all-time-high near $20k, the coin sold off and dropped down to the $16k region. Along with it several altcoins […]
Coinsquare customers in Canada are seeing their purchase and sales orders go to the computers of the Trudeau government, or at least that is what the liberal leader is aiming to achieve. Even though for a while now, 200,000 Canadians risked having their crypto data turned over when, via the tax authorities, the liberal government of […]
Coinbase is taking so many hits as of late, it almost looks coordinated. Earlier this week, after a month long rally, Bitcoin took a breather that most of us who’ve been watching events for a long time, recognized as a simple profit taking, or a small correction if you will. Although the move from $19k […]
Two separate articles in The Hindu, one of India’s biggest newspapers, over a period of several months, spell out a golden future for crypto in the Asian subcontinent. During the summer months, it was reported that during the lockdown period, the volume of daily crypto trading in India had soared by some 400% and now […]
Back in 2019, before Covid and all, there once was a global website called Facebook that decided one day: hey, let’s take over the world of money, and then the world of money responded: let’s not. In a nutshell, that’s the story of Libra. Okay, okay, it’s a bit more complicated than this, but you […]
The brutal Thanksgiving selloff which saw Bitcoin slide 10% from its $19k price point and other altcoins drop some 20% also hit Yearn Finance, the best known Andre Cronje developed coin. But lo and behold, 24 hours later and YFI is once again trading around $24k, up 20% today after the Cream news became public. It comes as Andre’s […]
Knowing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attitude towards any illegal operation in his country, you wouldn’t want to be man who made the news yesterday with an illegal Bitcoin mining operation. Now that in itself would be bad enough if discovered by the Russian authorities, but if you manage to also lit up the whole apartment […]
A tiny newspaper article in this week’s Financial Times was retweeted by none other than the CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao. The original story claimed that the British Monarch, Queen Elizabeth, had expressed an interest in blockchain. CZ cheekily wanted to know how many Bitcoins the inhabitants of Windsor Castle bought in the meantime already.The […]
