DeFi Bitcoin (BTC) News

On June 15, the number of addresses with a balance of at least 0.1 bitcoin exceeded 3 057 754 units. The previous record, 3 057 647, is also recorded today. 📈 #Bitcoin $BTC Number of Addresses Holding 0.1+ coins just reached an ATH of 3,057,754.000Previous ATH of 3,057,647.000 was observed on 15...

BTC hash has almost recovered to levels that preceded halving. It was reported by the analytical company CoinMetrics. After the halving on May 11, about 30% of miners disconnected from the network, and the income of the remaining miners fell by 50%. Despite this, the CoinMetrics CMBI Bitcoin hash...

The former adviser of George Soros said he was "not surprised" by the investments of trader and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones in BTC, given the current monetary policy of central banks, reports Cointelegraph. Takeshi Fujimaki had close contact with Tudor Jones when he was engaged in...

One of the BTC addresses, indicated by Craig Wright's lawyers as belonging to him, contains about 80 thousand BTC (~$756 million) stolen from MtGox in 2011. This was stated by the former CEO of the exchange Mark Karpeles. The 1Feex address contains ~80k BTC stolen from MtGox in March 2011. Craig...

Binance announced the launch of quarterly BTC futures. Since 2019, Binance has been offering futuristic futures contracts with no expiration dates. Quarterly contracts expire on the last Friday of the corresponding three-month period. Like perpetual contracts, quarterly futures are offered with...

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia sent a letter to the State Duma criticizing a new package of bills regulating digital currencies and assets. According to Kommersant, the ministry believes that a complete ban on the issuance and circulation of cryptocurrencies, as well as the...

The average daily value transferred through the Bitcoin blockchain increased in May from $1.75 billion to $2.25 billion. Ethereum's corresponding figure rose from $1.49 billion to $1.66 billion. This is reported by The Block. The graph below shows that the daily moving value almost reached the...

The activity of miners in the BTC network increased sharply after another recalculation of complexity. This is evidenced by three key indicators indicated by venture investor Alex Thorne. Over the past week, the bitcoin hash has increased by about 30%, reaching 126.5 EH/s. Thus, this indicator was...

Faced with a decline in income after the May halving, miners again began to sell more bitcoins than they currently earn. This is stated in a new report by Arcane Research. A metric proposed by analysts called Miner’s Rolling Inventory [MRI] tracks the difference between the number of coins that...

Jack Dorsey's Square Crypto announced the allocation of another grant for the development of Bitcoin's Layer 2 network, Lightning Network's infrastructure. It was received by the Spanish developers' team Talaia, working on the service The Eye of Satoshi. The Eye of Satoshi is the so-called...

The balance of the largest exchanges has 3.1 million BTC ($29.3 billion), or about 16.5% of the market supply of the first cryptocurrency. It is reported by The Block. Since February 9, when this volume was 3.43 million BTC (or almost every fifth bitcoin), today the figure has decreased by 10%....

Bitmain, a leading manufacturer of mining equipment, has launched the new Antminer T19 device. It is suitable for mining BTC and other crypto coins on the SHA256 algorithm. Key features of the model:...

Almost three weeks after the halving, the commissions on the bitcoin network dropped to the indicators recorded immediately before this event. According to Bitinfocharts, on May 27, the average commission size fell to $2.40, although seven days earlier it exceeded $6.6. Over the past two days, this...

Vitalii Antonenko, a New Yorker, faces 20 years in prison and a large fine for a number of crimes using bitcoin. This was reported on the website of the US Attorney's Office. Antonenko is accused of a series of cybercrimes with the aim of stealing information about bank cards. According to...

Over the past 5 days, the average commission for transactions in the Bitcoin network has decreased by 54%, however, some observers believe that network congestion may push investors to altcoins. A week ago, the average transaction fee made a jump to the level of February 2018, but since then, it...

American developer Laszlo Hanyecz, who went down in the history of bitcoin as the person who made the first documented purchase using cryptocurrency, said he actually spent significantly more than 10,000 BTC on pizzas. On May 22, 2010, Hanyecz purchased two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. Traditionally, on...

The current state of the digital currency industry allows us to talk about the advent of "cryptocurrency." An important role in this is played by not even a significant increase in the price of bitcoin since the March market crash, but rather progress in the development of blockchain...

Exactly ten years ago, on May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz made the first-ever purchase for bitcoin by buying two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. On May 18, Laszlo posted a post on BitcoinTalk stating that he was ready to give 10,000 BTC for two large pizzas from Papa John’s. Of course, Papa John’s did not...