The news that CoreWeave (an American company that deals with cloud computing) is acquiring the crypto mining company Core Scientific for an amount of about 9 billion dollars was jubilantly praised on many crypto websites yesterday afternoon. For me though, it brought back memories of 2022. Level CoreWeave and Core Scientific shareholders weren’t too happy […]
June is normally the month when the first heat waves start in Texas, the largest state in the United States. Due to climate change, these heat waves are becoming more frequent (and are relatively longer). And that has consequences for Bitcoin, because Texas is where most Bitcoin mining companies operate. Authorities in Texas are asking […]
The transfer of some 80,000 Bitcoins, minted between 2011 and 2013, also known as the ‘Satoshi era’, is making investors very nervous. The owner of these digital coins waited an average of thirteen to fourteen years to move his wealth. Is Satoshi Nakamoto preparing for a sale? And what could this mean for the price? […]
US stock markets remained closed on Friday, as the United States celebrated its Fourth of July (Independence Day). Profit-taking by investors and a Chinese warning that Russia has to win in Ukraine pushed European stock markets and Bitcoin lower as we headed into the weekend. Interest After Wall Street had touched new records earlier this […]
Just as Bitcoin tries to reach the ATH, some 9 listed companies in the UK, which mostly have nothing to do with cryptocurrencies, have started a Bitcoin buying policy. In this way, their stock prices have shot up spectacularly. They are of course just trying to follow the example of both the Japanese company Metaplanet […]
According to reports in the usually well-informed news site Bloomberg, Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, plans to let its customers store cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as from next year. Their ‘digital asset custody service’, for which Deutsche Bank applied for a license two years ago (in June 2023), is expected to be launched in partnership […]
Bitcoin ended the first half of 2025 with a price of $107,000, an unprecedented figure after the first six months of a year. The big surprise however was for the Euro, which has left the US dollar far behind in the field of currency winners and losers so far. An additional piece of news is […]
We already told you last month that the South Korean presidential elections would have an effect on the world of digital currencies. However, even we could not have predicted that it would take the turn it has. New president Lee Jae-myung promised to launch a stablecoin based on the local currency, the Won. That was […]
The first half of the year is almost over and although Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) are doing very well, we’ve also seen a record number of hacks. Crypto is becoming more and more mainstream and hackers are adapting to this. Research from TRM Labs shows that 2025 is well on its way to breaking all […]
A lower US dollar as well as the trade agreements that the Trump administration drafted this week have already pushed the largest US stock markets to record levels. Meanwhile Bitcoin is also trading close to its ATH and according to many analysts it is bound to set a new record within a few weeks. It […]
