Bitcoin’s path to $80,000 fueled by bullish derivatives trends

By doing so, they have helped regular people become known celebrities, many of whom now hold more influence than TV networks and print media outlets. The same can be said for music streaming services like Spotify and iTunes, which now allow musicians to skip record label deals and simply upload their songs directly to platforms…

Welcome back to Cointelegraph China’s Focus talk show. This time around, Peter Vessenes is under the spotlight. He is the founder of CoinLab, the first venture-backed Bitcoin company. He also co-founded the Bitcoin Foundation, serving as its first executive director and chairman.Vessenes has provided digital-currency consulting services for entities including the United States Treasury Department,…

Uphold, a digital money platform providing access to investments and payments using blockchain technology, has announced a partnership with crypto-backed lending company Salt. Together, the two plan to provide users with cash or stablecoin loans using cryptocurrencies as collateral.Uphold’s 1.7 million users can now secure loans through Salt against their holdings in Bitcoin (BTC), Ether…

Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcoin block 12 years ago today. 1062 Total views 8 Total shares Since Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first Bitcon block on Jan. 3, 2009, the crypto asset has led to substantial gains for investors given its meteoric rise in the last week alone.The price of Bitcoin (BTC) reached parity with the…

Unknown hackers have attempted to launch a second 51% attack on Vertcoin (VTC) but ended up paying for the privilege out of their own pockets.As Vertcoin’s lead maintainer James Lovejoy revealed in a report on the attack on Dec. 2, a malicious entity targeted cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex in order to manipulate the Vertcoin blockchain.Hackers paid…

As explained by Near Foundation’s Nicky Chalabi, projects like Tracer seek alignment with the core values of the ecosystem that can support the company’s roadmap in time to come. 401 Total views 12 Total shares For many layer 1 crypto projects, returning to normalcy from Terra’s death spiral meant a complete migration to a different…

The mean hash rate of the Bitcoin (BTC) network has hit new all-time highs to mark the cryptocurrency’s latest technical achievement, fresh data suggests.Compiled by monitoring resource Glassnode, a new analysis of Bitcoin’s historical hash rate shows that on Jan. 7, the mean value reached 119 quintillion hashes per second — its best ever at…