All You Need To Know About Bitcoin (BTC)
Bitcoin (BTC) is the number one cryptocurrency on the market, whether you rank it by age or market value. Invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin is recognised as the 'king' of cryptocurrencies. Get the run-down here.
Fri 29 Oct 2021 ▪ 19h05 ▪
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Mary Anderson
Kraken analysts note that both large and small miners have practically stopped selling mined Bitcoin (BTC), which led to a supply shortage on the market. Shocktober Kraken analysts found October shocking as miners continue to accumulate BTC causing supply shock on the market. Thus, analysts predict the rapid…
Mon 23 Aug 2021 ▪ 15h13 ▪
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William Proctor
Fiat currencies such as the euro (EUR), dollar (USD) or pound (GBP) have a specific denomination for hundredths of units. As you know, one pound is divided into 100 pence, each worth one hundredth (1/100) of a pound. Likewise, Bitcoin is divided into many very low units, which allow…
Sat 24 Jul 2021 ▪ 22h43 ▪
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Clément Cauffet
The Halving event, which often signals the start of a bull run, is one of the keys to the success of the Bitcoin model. Halving means the 50% reduction of mining rewards paid to miners, and takes place each 210,000 blocks. Consequently, there is fewer and fewer BTC mined, the…
Fri 23 Jul 2021 ▪ 17h57 ▪
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Nicolas Teterel
Bitcoin has fallen by 5% this week. Having shown its first drop below $30,000 in 4 weeks, it is now slowly stabilising. The current summer torpor as well as the Chinese miners’ great migration gives plenty of food for thought. US 10 year Treasury yield falls back to 1%…
Thu 08 Jul 2021 ▪ 23h05 ▪
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Geoffrey Smith
It seems like PlanB, an independent Bitcoin analyst with 615,000 followers on Twitter, remains confident in his Stock-To-Flow (S2F) model, which predicts Bitcoin (BTC) at $100,000 by the end of the year. He does admit, however, that BTC price (currently around $35,000) has only come this far below his model…
Mon 05 Jul 2021 ▪ 14h28 ▪
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Guillaume Moret Bailly
You’re hearing about Bitcoin (BTC) more and more often, and you’ve even invested into it, but you haven’t yet dived into the bowels of the network. Well, today, you have an opportunity to take the plunge by following along with the steps needed to deploy your very own node on…
Sun 23 May 2021 ▪ 11h00 ▪
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William Proctor
Bitcoin is down 40% from its ATH. Who is responsible for this bloodbath? Elon Musk. Rocketman’s betrayal even managed to overshadow the fact that inflation now stands at a 30-year high in the USA. Market manipulation, insider trading These are the words that naturally come to mind. This isn’t…
Mon 15 Feb 2021 ▪ 1h08 ▪
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Sylvain Saurel
Having already talked about good practices managing email addresses and crypto exchanges, it’s time to move on! The long term storage of your bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies on the exchange platform where you bought them is high on the list of bad practices for managing your crypto legacy. As ergonomic…
Mon 15 Feb 2021 ▪ 1h06 ▪
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Guillaume Moret Bailly
If you’ve been informing yourself about Bitcoin mining, you’ve certainly heard of Bitcoin Core. The open source software was first released in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of BTC, under the name ‘Bitcoin Qt’. According to data collected in 2016, almost 90% of miners used the Bitcoin Core client…
Mon 15 Feb 2021 ▪ 1h04 ▪
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William Proctor
Of all the ways to buy bitcoin, cash is probably the most appropriate for those wishing to avoid entering their banking details on a website, especially those who wish to act in complete confidentiality. Cash offers the chance to bypass the payment methods which require KYC (Know Your Customer) authentication,…
