Venezuelan Army Starts Mining Bitcoin for ‘Unblockable Income’

The Venezuelan Army has inaugurated a cryptocurrency mining center with bitcoin mining equipment aimed at generating “unblockable income,” as the country attempts to bypass U.S. sanctions. The crypto mining center has the support of the country’s crypto regulator, Sunacrip. Venezuela’s Army Starts Cryptocurrency Mining The Venezuelan Army’s cryptocurrency mining center was inaugurated on Nov. 19 by the 61st Agustín Codazzi Engineer Conditioning Brigade, according to local media. The inauguration was led by the General of the Bolivarian Army Lenin Herrera, Read more …

Russia’s Sberbank plans release of its own crypto token, the ‘Sbercoin’

With a new law coming into effect in Russian, the country’s largest bank is planning a new blockchain platform for trading, as well as a native token. According to a Monday report from Russian business news outlet RBC, Sberbank is planning to jump into crypto come 2021 when a new law “On Digital Financial Assets,” or DFA, is set to come into effect.  The news came from Herman Gref, the CEO and chairman of Sberbank. With over 96 million clients, Read more …

This Bitcoin mining company’s stock is in free fall following Q3 loss

The stock of one of China’s “big 3” mining firms is in free fall Monday after reporting another quarterly loss, underscoring the operating challenges imposed by COVID-19. Canaan Creative, which manufactures mining rigs, released its third-quarter financial results Monday. The company posted a net loss of $12.7 million, or 54 cents per share, on revenues of $24 million. Although quarterly revenues grew 5%, the company’s net losses more than quadrupled. Quanfu Hong, Canaan’s chief financial officer, poured cold water on Read more …

Bitcoin Tramples Its 2017 Record High on Booming Institutional Adoption

Bitcoin achieved a new milestone on Monday. The flagship cryptocurrency hit a fresh record high for the first time in three years as traders increased their bids in hopes of earning big profits. It was trading as high as $19,864 during the US session, up 9.16 percent on the day. That trampled its 2017 record high of $19,666, according to data fetched by Coinbase exchange. Bitcoin is rallying relentlessly for the last 10 months. Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com Bitcoin is Read more …

Gold and Bitcoin eye inflation-adjusted all-time highs… but it’s taken gold 40 years

Gold bug and Bitcoin (BTC) skeptic Peter Schiff was just 17 years old when the yellow metal set its true all-time price high. Meanwhile, Bitcoin, a much younger asset, sits close to its inflation-adjusted all-time high, or ATH, after just three years of downward pressure. Adjusted for inflation, gold reached a price of $678 U.S. dollars in 1980, according to a breakdown from Visual Capitalist. Accounting for inflation, based on calculations from Officialdata .org, $678 in 1980 held the same Read more …

Tyler Winklevoss tells CNBC that ‘Cash is trash’

Not one to mince words, Tyler Winklevoss reportedly told the business network CNBC that “Cash is trash.” In his view, it’s only a matter of time before investors dump the dollar and other fiat currencies for BTC: “At some point, it is hard to look at those data points and say that Bitcoin isn’t an incredible store of value.” His twin brother Cameron Winklevoss also said that Bitcoin (BTC) “just needs to be better than gold” to see its value rise Read more …

Bitcoin Security With Cobo’s Lixin Liu – Bitcoin Magazine

Listen To This Episode: This episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s Bitcoin In Asia featured Lixin Liu, the head of hardware at Cobo and the creator of the Cobo Vault, out of Shanghai. Lixin’s background in hardware and international product development, most recently in robotics with Hover Camera, made him the preferred choice of F2Pool and Cobo Founder Discus Fish when he decided to get into the Bitcoin hardware and security game. See Also Lixin and I discussed building out Bitcoin hardware Read more …

‘Classic top setup’? Bitcoin price flash crashes on Kraken after all-time high

Bitcoin (BTC) reached a new all-time high on various exchanges on Nov. 30, but one record, in particular, hit the headlines for a different reason. Data from cryptocurrency exchange Kraken shows BTC/USD hit its highest ever price on its order book — then dove to $16,600 in seconds. Kraken BTC price dumps $3,000 The reason for the crash, which will have liquidated a large number of positions and caused considerable pain for many a speculator, was likely what is known Read more …

Justice Department extradites alleged BTC mining ponzi operator from Panama

Per a Monday announcement, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Southern District of New York have extradited a leader of alleged ponzi scheme AirBit Club from Panama.  Gutemberg Dos Santos is one of six operators of AirBit Club indicted, and the last to come into the U.S. to face trial before the SDNY. Dos Santos is a dual citizen of Brazil and the U.S. Authorities initially apprehended five of the six back in August, with a sixth avoiding authorities until Read more …

Can DeFi indices finally make crypto-based passive investing worthwhile?

Index investing in the stock market has become extremely popular thanks to the proliferation of exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, which often track popular market indices like the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq-100. Investing in the entire market can be a simple but effective strategy. Instead of spending energy and time in trying to beat it — often unsuccessfully — investors are guaranteed average returns, which in the past 10 years have been more than respectable both in stocks and in Read more …

Bitcoin theft is likely to surge in meager post-COVID economy: report

Cryptocurrency-related fraud and theft are likely to grow in the post-COVID-19 world, according to a new report by cybersecurity and anti-virus provider, Kaspersky Lab. Securelist, Kaspersky’s cyberthreat research arm, published a report on cyberthreats to financial organizations, forecasting some specific types of financial attacks that are likely to surge in 2021. Securelist has predicted that a wave of poverty fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic will inevitably lead to “more people resorting to crime including cybercrime.” That could also mean a Read more …

Bitcoin Explodes to Fresh All-Time High; Here’s What Could Come Next

Following what is described as an “epic bear trap” to $16,400, Bitcoin has officially set a fresh all-time high. The benchmark digital asset has never traded as a price this high on the spot market before, with bulls now trying to push it above $20,000. It does appear to be facing some resistance as it navigates into this price region, with bears ardently attempting to fade the movement. Regardless of whether they are successful, the cryptocurrency’s historic move higher this Read more …