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While the price of Bitcoin continues to reach new heights, 4 million corners (of the 16.7 million currently in circulation) could, according to a new study, have been lost forever. A rain of records Bitcoin has once again reached record highs, now exceeding the $ 9700 mark (around € 8,130). Many factors could explain this increase of more than 950% since the beginning of the year. We can notably mention the arrival of institutional investors, eager to invest in cryptocurrency. This arrival should be facilitated by the initiative of the CME Group, which will propose next month Bitcoin futures, or that of Coinbase, which announced the launch of Coinbase Custody for 2018 - a service dedicated to institutional investors who would like to offer their clients the opportunity to invest in digital assets. But while the prospect of the arrival of institutional financing is certainly not unrelated to the rise we are witnessing, another argument has been put forward. It concerns the ...

A journalist recently visited a former military bunker hidden in the Swiss Alps. This bunker is currently Xapo's safe and houses an undetermined number of bitcoins. Xapo is a Hong Kong-based company providing coin purses and bitcoin clearing cards. Secret Bunker In a recent article for the World Economic Forum, journalist Joon Ian Wong shared his recent visit to a former military bunker concealed and dug out of the granite of a Swiss mountain. Apparently used at the time of the cold war, this bunker is currently in the hands of the company Xapo, and the installation seems straight from a spy movie. Wong révèle avoir été accueilli par une première barrière de 3 mètres de haut, ou un service de sécurité l’a photographié et a relevé ses empreintes digitales. Après cela, le visiteur passe par un sas entouré de vitres pare-balles, ou un employé situé à l’autre bout du bunker est chargé de lui autoriser l’accès. Après le passage de portes-blindées nécessitant une identificatio...

Tax evasion and money laundering are often mentioned as problems associated with the cryptocurrency universe. It is indeed often difficult to analyze public blockchains to track suspicious money flows. Chainalysis is a company that offers solutions to this problem. It recently partnered with the IRS, the government agency charged with collecting taxes in the United States. IRS tackles Coinbase The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the federal government agency of the United States collecting most taxes. The group recently partnered with Chainalysis to facilitate investigations into possible tax evasion or money laundering cases via bitcoins. The company analyzes public blockchains in order to track bitcoin transactions as well as identify the perpetrators. Among the first targets of the IRS, Coinbase is in the line of fire. The IRS has recently asked the site for almost all of its 500,000 clients. The exchange refused the first requests, reducing the number of files requested ...

The price of Bitcoin has reached a new ATH, and continues to climb at the time of writing this article. Bitcoin is currently estimated at more than $ 9600, and all eyes are on the symbolic threshold of $ 10,000. To the moon? Bitcoin: an incomparable growth 2017 has been an impressive year for Bitcoin. Priced at just over $ 900 on January 1, the price has been multiplied by 10 over the months. Bitcoin is now capitalized at more than 160 billion dollars, 10 billion less than the capitalization of Mastercard (171 billion dollars). During the last 24 hours, a volume of almost 6 billion dollars has been exchanged. It now seems very likely that the value of bitcoin will reach $ 10,000 by the end of the year, confirming Ronnie Moas' prophecy a few months in advance. Trace Mayer - one of Kraken's main investors, BitPay and Armory - also noted that Bitcoin was now the 30th largest currency in the world. Cryptocurrency has indeed exceeded certain fiduciary currencies, such a...

Hello everyone, and welcome to this new episode of 24H on the crypto planet! We publish exceptionally this 24H on the Journal du Coin because our newsletter manager has some difficulties today. We distribute the 24h on the crypto planet every day - from Monday to Friday - on your mailbox (registration at the bottom of the article). Find below various articles that we published during the weekend. India: the government is finally working on Bitcoin Old Mutual Gold & Silver Fund: Bitcoin is the new "digital gold" Bitcoin Diamond: the last hard fork of Bitcoin We also take the opportunity to announce the next meeting we are organizing, this time in Marseille! Journalducoin: a meetup ... in Massilia! Let's go ! Bitcoin exceeds 8,000 € This is an important milestone if you are in the Euro Zone, but that is also the case for the dollar price, which is now approaching $ 10,000 ($ 9,720 at the time of writing). Bitcoin continues its momentum initiated by ...

CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) is ready to shyly launch Bitcoin futures this year in the midst of a heated debate, unlike the position and value of the digital currency itself, as investors institutions are banking on an activity up $ 10 billion. In late October, CME Group CEO Terry Duffy announced the launch of a Bitcoin futures contract before the beginning of 2018, in response to "growing customer interest in the cryptocurrency markets. in full evolution. " Although it has exceeded $ 9,000 this weekend or perhaps because of its incredibly fast trajectory, Bitcoin is still the target of its critics with Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan who calls it a "scam" and some experts who are worried that its rising price has all indications of a speculative bubble. The digital currency climbed 906% during volatile trading this year, with three separate corrections of more than 25%, all of which gave way to subsequent rallies. At current prices, Bitcoin has a total market capitalizat...

The price of Bitcoin is now close to the $ 10,000 threshold, after breaking new historical records. Bitcoin overtakes Disney and McDonald's The price of the BTC has reached almost $ 9800 this morning, 09h44 French time, according to data provided by Coinmarketcap. The total value of the 16.7 million Bitcoins in circulation now exceeds 160 billion dollars (and even if, as we told you in this article, some BTC were probably lost along the way). The capitalization of Bitcoin now exceeds that of large companies like McDonald's (136 billion dollars), IBM (140 billion), Disney (155 billion), or General Electric (158 billion): A rise that worries some observers But while this rise is proving enthusiastic by many investors, some observers have not shared this concern - and seem to believe it is a speculative bubble ready to explode. Art Cashin "Bitcoin has become 'parabolic' - in general, it does not end well," CNBC's famous trader Art Cashin to...

Bitcoin Gold's GitHub repository has been attacked to inject a malicious file into one of the official wallets. If the problem now seems resolved, some users were exposed to risks last week. Another BTG wallet incriminated Bitcoin Gold logoThe Bitcoin Gold teams yesterday published an article evoking a new problem with a Bitcoin Gold wallet. While we had already witnessed attempts from MyBTGWallet, which stole the private keys of its users, and Electron Gold, which was based on suspicious computer code, it is now the turn of the official wallet to ask problem. The software reportedly sent malicious files to users who downloaded it last week: "All users who have downloaded the file corresponding to the Windows wallet, between November 21, 2017, at 9:39 UTC [ndlr: 10h39 French time] and November 25, 2017, 22:30 UTC [note: 23:30 French time] must in no case use it. " Users who have installed and opened the wallet, whose "checksums" do not correspond ...

Bitcoin has reached a new historical record. The first cryptocurrency has exceeded a few minutes ago the bar of 8600 dollars, as indicated by the site Coinmarketcap: Après un calme relatif depuis hier après-midi, le cours du BTC s’est mis à grimper progressivement à partir de ce matin : Recall that the Bitcoin price had started the year slightly below $ 1000, and that it has increased by more than 760% in 2017. Its capitalization now stands at nearly $ 144 billion - the value of all Bitcoins in circulation exceeds that of large groups such as Siemens, Mastercard or McDonald's. The price of Bitcoin seems to be driven by positive news, such as the announcement of the CME Group, which will offer futures contracts on cryptocurrency next month, that of Square, which will soon allow purchases of digital currency through its Square Cash application, or the statement of the Hyosung Group, which announced that its vending machines would soon allow to buy virtual currencies. ...

Bitcoin has reached a new historical record. The first cryptocurrency has exceeded a few minutes ago the bar of 8600 dollars, as indicated by the site Coinmarketcap: Après un calme relatif depuis hier après-midi, le cours du BTC s’est mis à grimper progressivement à partir de ce matin : Recall that the Bitcoin price had started the year slightly below $ 1000, and that it has increased by more than 760% in 2017. Its capitalization now stands at nearly $ 144 billion - the value of all Bitcoins in circulation exceeds that of large groups such as Siemens, Mastercard or McDonald's. The price of Bitcoin seems to be driven by positive news, such as the announcement of the CME Group, which will offer futures contracts on cryptocurrency next month, that of Square, which will soon allow purchases of digital currency through its Square Cash application, or the statement of the Hyosung Group, which announced that its vending machines would soon allow to buy virtual currencies. ...

We came across this week on an interesting tweet, published by Tuur Demeester. Above all, we want to remind you that price predictions are never an exact science. It is still impossible to predict accurately a market price, since it will depend on the confrontation between supply and demand for an asset. Finally, it is not because the price of Bitcoin could roughly follow the progression mentioned in the graph that we will present, that such a development should continue. Tuur Demeester is an economist, and is editor-in-chief of Adamant Research. The tweet he recently posted is a tweet he had already written in December 2014. This is accompanied by a graph, which establishes a relation between the time (x, on the abscissa axis) and the Bitcoin price (y, on the ordinate axis): The time and the price of Bitcoin would thus be, according to this model, roughly linked, through a logarithmic regression curve. Here are the main predictions that can be drawn from this graph: a...