Bitcoin exchange Coinbase – The American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has registered with De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). Registration is only a formality. It does not provide any additional security for Dutch cryptocurrency traders. Since the spring of 2020, it has been mandatory for providers of cryptocurrency services in the Netherlands to register with the central bank. […]
Euros via cryptocurrency – The police arrested a man from Veenendaal last week on suspicion of laundering criminal money via cryptocurrency. It concerns an amount of tens of millions of euros, reports the police Tuesday. The suspect was arrested in the night of Monday 5 to Tuesday 6 September. He would have converted stolen bitcoins into digital […]
bone thugs n harmony – Hackers have Thursday for about 100 million dollars (about 95 million euros) of crypto coins stolen from crypto company Harmony, reports news agency Bloomberg. Harmony announced via a tweet that the hack took place Thursday morning on its so-called Horizon bridge, which makes the mutual trade between different cryptocurrencies possible. The company is […]
Bitcoin current price dips below $20,000 – The bitcoin has further lost value and has fallen below 20,000 dollars. This is the first time in a year and a half. Since the beginning of this year, the value of the most important digital currency has fallen sharply, but in the past week there was a […]
Chinese Central Bank Reiterates, The Chinese central bank will continue with the crackdown on the market for digital coins, the central bank said in a statement on Saturday. In recent times, the Chinese authorities have been increasingly strict against the trade in cryptocurrencies, which in previous cases led to fear among investors, resulting in price […]
“Bitcoin is a great way to protect your savings” THE KEYS TO CRYPTO is a section that patiently decodes the world of cryptocurrency and its stock market, industrial and media shocks. François Remy’s mission is to identify promising entrepreneurs, decode technical progress and anticipate the industrial and societal impacts of this digital currency. Hard to believe, […]
First NFTs appear on Instagram this week, Starting this week, Instagram is testing a way to share NFTs. According to Instagram director Adam Mosseri and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, initially only a small group of American users can use the option. A number of people on Instagram can share homemade or purchased NFTs starting this week. […]
Bitcoin price plummets below $ 40000, The price of the bitcoin has gone into a free fall. On Wednesday, the value of the largest digital currency dipped below 40,000 dollars (almost 33,000 euros), while the currency reached a record price of 64,895.22 dollars last month. Criticism from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a repeat of […]
Teslas can now be bought with bitcoin, Tesla will accept payments in bitcoin from Wednesday, says founder and billionaire Elon Musk on Twitter. In February, it was already announced that the company has invested 1.5 billion dollars (almost 1.3 billion euros) in the cryptocurrency to make the payments possible. “You can now buy a Tesla […]
Bad news week for bitcoin leads to 21 percent drop in value, The best-known cryptocurrency, bitcoin, has fallen sharply in value this week after a series of warnings from China. As a result, the bitcoin price fell by 21 percent in the past seven days, according to figures from crypto price website CoinMarketCap. Saturday around […]
Why does every company suddenly want to do something with bitcoin?, Tesla, Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks. The list of companies that let customers pay with bitcoin is getting longer and longer. And according to rumors, the online store Amazon would now join them. What drives all these companies to suddenly jump on the bitcoin bandwagon? “Whoever […]
Record high bitcoin price approaches $63,000 mark, The value of the bitcoin reached a record level of 62,818 dollars (52,793 euros) on Tuesday. This means that the old record of March, when the cryptocurrency was briefly worth more than 61,000 dollars, is out of the books. The price of the bitcoin has been on the […]
China would like to slow down the mining of bitcoins because of environmental impact, China may further restrict the so-called mining of bitcoin. Three-quarters of the world’s supply of the digital currency is still produced in the country. However, the large energy consumption involved in mining bitcoin would be at odds with the country’s sustainable […]
‘Bitcoin is mainly worth money because others want to buy it’, The price of the bitcoin reaches milestone after milestone. Last week, the cryptocurrency even rose from 35,000 to more than 40,000 dollars (almost 33,000 euros) within a day and a half. Here too, the corona crisis seems to play an important role. Nevertheless, in […]
Turkey bans bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a means of payment, Purchases of, for example, cars or holidays may not be settled with cryptocurrency in Turkey, the Turkish central bank announced on Friday. According to the regulator, bitcoins and other digital currencies cause transaction risks and irreparable damage. The price of the bitcoin immediately plunged […]
