DeFi Bitcoin (BTC) News

The District Court of the Southern District of Florida on July 6 will begin a hearing in the case in which relatives of Dave Kleiman accused Craig Wright of misappropriating half of 1.1 million bitcoins. The parties have the opportunity until July 3 to put an end to this confusing two-year process,...

Roughly on May 12, there will be a drop in the award of BTC miners or the so-called halving. In anticipation of this event, the amount of computing power used to extract cryptocurrency has approached 150 exams per second (EH/s). In early March, this figure reached 125 EH/s, however, after the cost...

Investors expect an exacerbation of the trade war between China and the United States over the coronavirus. This could affect the price of bitcoin, which previously fell below $9,000. It is reported by Bitcoinist. The day before, bitcoin reached $9203, but subsequently, its market value fell to...

Last night, May 1, Bitcoin miners mined four blocks in just 46 seconds. In an hour, 12 blocks appeared twice as much as the average figure laid down in the algorithm. According to BTC.com, abnormal activity lasted several hours. For each of them, from 7 to 12 new blocks were registered....

The first cryptocurrency broke the psychologically important mark of $8,000 and continues to grow. At the time of writing, the price of BTC reached $8645. Bitcoin overcame the previous sign level of $7,000 more than three weeks ago. During this time, the cryptocurrency periodically dropped below...

CoinDesk journalist Zach Voell decided to make a joke about the community in a rather original way, spreading fake news about the transfer of 65,091 BTC (more than 500 million) from the Trezor wallet, allegedly belonging to the DPRK leader Kim Jong-un. He designed his account in the style of the...

The recently launched Binance mining pool has mined its first block. This was told by its CEO. Guess what is this?Click thread to see the answer. pic.twitter.com/MTVEoPYklj— CZ Binance 🔶🔶🔶 (@cz_binance) April 24, 2020 The indicated block is numbered 627,434 and was mined at 13:31...

The amount of payments in bitcoins and Ethereum in favor of providers of “adult” content involving minors in 2019 amounted to $930,000. Such data are provided by the analytical startup Chainalysis. Compared with the year before last, the growth was 32%, which in turn more than doubled the...

Future.Travel, a Vietnam-based ticketing agency, has expanded its list of payment options with the second-level Bitcoin protocol Lightning Network. This will reduce the cost of booking hotels and airline tickets, the press release said. Technical support for the integration of the Lightning Network...

Salim Satir, an investor from Canada, considered himself to be affected by the deliberately false information that Bitstamp and Gatehub exchanges placed, which resulted in losses of $4.9 million. He intends to recover this amount from exchanges through the High Court of England and Wales, Law360...

Bitcoin critic billionaire Mark Cuban admitted that the actions of central banks in the current crisis give cryptocurrencies a good chance. But in an interview with Anthony Pompliano, he again resorted to comparing it with bananas and pointed out the difficulty of use. Morgan Creek Digital's...

Miner maker MicroBT has updated its WhatsMiner line of Bitcoin mining equipment. The new models M30S+, M30S++ and M31S+ are designed to increase its efficiency before the upcoming halving. It is reported by CoinDesk. M30S+, M30S++, and M31S+, which are available both on pre-order and from stock,...

Purse startup team announced a decision to close the company after 6 years of work in the crypto market. We've made the very difficult decision to dissolve the company. We're grateful for the opportunity afforded by our supporters to build products and services for the cryptocurrency...

The rapid rise in the value of bitcoin by $500 on Thursday, led to mass liquidations on the BitMEX crypto derivatives exchange. The price of bitcoin has shown rapid growth from $6650, peaking at $7145 around 03:00 AM CT. According to data from analytic company Skew, the sudden movement led to the...

The police began an investigation into the theft of 1 million 660 thousand rubles ($22.000) from a 65-year-old resident of Adygea under the guise of investing in cryptocurrency. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The victim was going to purchase shares of one of...

Cryptocurrency owners most often use them to pay for everyday goods, while every third of those who are not related to them associates digital assets with the purchase of weapons and drugs. Visual Objects have come to such results. Among the 983 respondents surveyed, only 157 had experience buying...

This week, the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange carried out the largest dollar-denominated transaction in the history of Bitcoin in the amount of 161,500 BTC or about $1.1 billion. The transaction fee was only 0.00010019 BTC or $0.68, TheCryptoAssociate writes. The transaction was carried out on...

The China Electronic Information Industry Development (CCID) has published the next 17th cryptocurrency rating in a row, in which EOS still ranked first. Bitcoin (BTC) moved down to rank 14, skipping ahead Cosmos (ATOM), Stellar (XLM) and DASH. The three leaders in comparison with the previous...