Bitcoin (BTC) News

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase plans to enter the crypto lending market. Coinbase customers in some US states will be able to obtain fiat using BTC as collateral. At launch, Coinbase plans to support 17 states. A Coinbase spokesperson told the lending service is going to launch in the fall....

Computing activity on the bitcoin network has begun to recover after falling last week. On Tuesday, August 11th, BTC hashrate exceeded 124.6 exahsh per second (EH/s), the highest since the end of July. The hash rate dropped to 119.8 EH/s last week. Despite small fluctuations, in general, throughout...

Pantera Capital founder Dan Morehead is part of the so-called bitcoin bull camp. He periodically makes predictions that the largest digital currency will be able to achieve great results this year. In 2021, the likelihood of a new leap is high. BTC can reach $ 100,000 or even exceed this...

On August 1st, Bitcoin Core 0.20.1 version was released, which contains a small number of modifications and improvements. The most significant changes concern peers that are sending invalid blocks. With Bitcoin Core 0.20.1, these users are not blocked, but marked as “not recommended nodes.”...

Back in early June, Bloomberg predicted that Bitcoin's upward movement will continue until the end of 2020. One of the analysts, Mike McGlone, stated that the cryptocurrency is going to be able to test the values ​​at the $ 20,000 level. Bloomberg released its monthly cryptocurrency review...

The average commission on the Bitcoin network has increased by 752%, according to blockchain reviewer bitinfocharts.com. On July 28, sending a bitcoin transaction cost $5.8. A month ago, this indicator was at $0.68. The maximum commission in the network of the first cryptocurrency was in December...

Fidelity analysts have published a report in which they pointed to the growing importance of bitcoin as a tool for preserving capital. They even used the term "insurance policy" to denote the role of bitcoin. The largest cryptocurrency acts as a protector of savings in the face of the...

According to billionaire and Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz, gold and bitcoin will update their highs soon. The financier expressed this point of view on the air of the CNBC television channel and noted that both assets are the best form of capital preservation in the face of rising inflation....

On July 26, analysts at Glassnode released data suggesting that the current rise in the price of bitcoin above $ 10,000 will be distinct from the last two. The price of bitcoin touched $10,000 several times in 2020, along with the growth of the Glassnode metric called Bitcoin Days Destroyed (the...

Formal Verification analysts in collaboration with Glassnode released a report on the on-chain state of the largest cryptocurrency in the second quarter. Researchers note the growing role of bitcoin as a means of payment. In recent years, both the number of transactions and their average cost have...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says bitcoin will eventually break out of the $ 9000 - $ 9500 corridor, although it is holding steady. On July 19, speaking with Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia, Zhao commented on the cryptocurrency's record-low volatility in the past few weeks, when the coin has been relatively...

The famous Canadian astronaut and fan of blockchain technology Chris Hadfield became the owner of the first bitcoins in his life, symbolically receiving them from a space satellite located 35,000 km from Earth. The event was broadcast during the Asia Blockchain Summit 2020 held last week. The $100...

Prompt moves by cryptocurrency exchanges have allowed users to save at least $300,000 in the recent Twitter hack, Forbes reports. Trading platforms began taking action to counter cybercriminals minutes after the fake tweets appeared, while the first restrictive steps by the social network's...

The head of the investment company Euro Pacific Capital, Peter Schiff, continues to criticize bitcoin via Twitter. On his social media page over the weekend, he published a series of posts in which he tried to explain that BTC is a pyramid scheme. Schiff has repeatedly criticized Bitcoin in the...

Attackers who managed to gain access to the accounts of many celebrities on Twitter transferred the received funds to a separate address. Previously, it was used to send funds to Coinbase and BitPay and CoinPayments services. #TwitterHack @coinbase @BitPay Please check the following Bitco_in...

Grayscale investment company has increased the share of bitcoin and ether in its Digital Large-Cap (DLC) fund due to other comprehensive altcoins. On Twitter, the company announced changes to the DLC in the 2nd quarter of 2020. During this period, the share of bitcoin in the fund increased from 81%...

The energy consumption of BTC miners resumed growth after falling against the backdrop of a halving. This is evidenced by the Digiconomist service. Two weeks after halving, this indicator dropped by 24%, from 77.78 TW·h/year to 57.9 TW·h/year. At the moment, it is 61.44...

The second-largest crypto in terms of capitalization surpassed bitcoin in terms of the growth in the number of active addresses. Since the beginning of the year, their number has increased by 145%, while at BTC this indicator increased by 13%. According to the analytic company Messari, the number...