SHIBA Inu coin is up on Coinbase on Tuesday, as is Bitcoin after Square CEO Jack Dorsey revealed the company is looking to get into crypto mining with that currency.
“Square is considering building a bitcoin mining system based on custom silicon and open source for individuals and businesses worldwide,” CEO Dorsey said in a tweet on Friday.
“If we do this, we’d follow our hardware wallet model: build in the open in collaboration with the community.”
Bitcoin’s price hit a six-month-high of $62,000 after the tweet, Business Insider reported.
Both Bitcoin and Shiba Inu remain up on Tuesday, according to Coinbase.
Plus, crypto prices saw some changes after President Biden’s statement drawing attention to potential pitfalls of the currency, such as ransomware and other cyber threats.
The statement from Joe Biden read: “Cyber threats can affect every American, every business regardless of size, and every community. That’s why my administration is marshaling a whole-of-nation effort to confront cyber threats.”
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BITCOIN MINER JAILED, CONTINUED
The Crown Prosecution Service explained Singh’s activities were first detected when a power provider investigated a fault at a substation caused by the cryptocurrency mining overloading the system.
The CPS released details of the case and said an inspection of Singh’s premises showed he had tampered with the wiring to run over 200 devices.
Investigations suggested he had cheated the power provider out of tens out thousands of pounds of electricity.
Singh went on to commit the same offence at the nightclub in Loughborough while the first offense was still under investigation.
Singh was charged with two counts of abstracting electricity and pleaded guilty to both offences.
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BITCOIN MINER JAILED
A bitcoin miner has been jailed after he was caught stealing electricity in a sketchy cryptocurrency scam in the United Kingdom.
Sanjay Singh, 40, admitted “abstracting” electricity worth up to £32,000 at two locations where he operated bitcoin mining machines, Leicester Crown Court heard.
The first loaction was in an industrial unit in Coalville and the other was in Firefly nightclub in Loughborough.
The second had been closed for the summer holidays.
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LITECOIN VS. BITCOIN, CONTINUED
Like most cryptocurrencies, Litecoin uses blockchain technology for processing and recording transactions.
While Litecoin is smaller, it is a quicker and cheaper alternative when compared to Bitcoin.
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LITECOIN VS. BITCOIN
Litecoin, which was established in 2011 by Google engineer Charlie Lee, operates similarly to Bitcoin.
Mr Lee on occasions refers to Litecoin as the “silver to Bitcoin’s gold.”
The two cryptocurrencies act similarly in how their global payment operations are set up. Both are not controlled by financial institutions.
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WILL LITECOIN HIT $500? CONTINUED
Odds are this helped give Litecoin a boost as well.
In 12 months’ time, the price of Litecoin could exceed $255, according to Wallet Investor.
But near the end of 2026, Wallet Investor sees Litecoin exceeding $557.
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WILL LITECOIN HIT $500?
Litecoin exploded to $412.96 in early – the closest it has ever gotten to the $500 mark.
Now, however, Litecoin trades at $174.90. In the past 24 hours, Litcoin has risen 3%.
While China has banned all cryptocurrency transactions, big brother Bitcoin has gained on recent favorable news coming from the U.S.
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WHAT IS LITECOIN?
As the name indicates, the cryptocurrency is small.
But Litecoin, which was established in 2011 by Google engineer Charlie Lee, operates similarly to Bitcoin.
Mr Lee on occasions refers to Litecoin as the “silver to Bitcoin’s gold.”
The two cryptocurrencies act similarly in how their global payment operations are set up. Both are not controlled by financial institutions.
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CRYPTO CASTLE? (PART TWO)
The therapist says Bitcoin addicts are often addicted to drugs and booze.
He said: “Commonly, people start because they want to buy stuff off the dark web. And the only way to do that is with cryptocurrency.
“The biggest problem is this cross addiction [with crypto] starting—through drugs and alcohol.”
Since 2017, Tony has treated 15 people who have been addicted to crypto.
Users travel from the likes of the United States, Dubai, Malta and the Netherlands to get treatment at the clinic.
Tony says that too many stories about Bitcoin are about people who have made fortunes – and not the traders who have gambled their lives away.
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CRYPTO CASTLE?
A rehab clinic in Scotland claims to be the first in the world to treat cryptocurrency addiction.
Castle Craig, a private hospital in Peeblesshire near Edinburgh, has seen admissions for Bitcoin addicts increase by a factor of 10 in the past year.
The clinic is overseen by therapist Tony Marini who claims to be the first physician to recognise that crypto trading is very similar to gambling.
He says most addicts start by occasionally trading before frequent wins feed dopamine cravings and dreams of earning millions.
Tony told Decrypt: “If you say to somebody doing crypto, ‘so you’re occasionally gambling,’ they’re gonna go ‘no, I’m not.’
“So take out the word gambling and say ‘occasionally trading.'”
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WHAT WILL MEASURE THE PERFORMANCE OF BITCOIN ON WALL STREET?
S&P Bitcoin Index, S&P Ethereum Index, and S&P Crypto Mega Cap Index will measure the performance of digital assets linked to them now that digital currencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum will be traded on Wall Street, according to Money Control.
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DOW JONES EXPERT ON TRADING CRYPTO ON WALL STREET
Some cryptocurrencies will be brought to the trading floors of Wall Street, Money Control reported.
“Traditional financial markets and digital assets are no longer mutually exclusive markets,” said Peter Roffman, global head of innovation and strategy at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
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CAN BITCOIN HIT $70,000, CONTINUED
A year from now, Wallet Investor sees the price of Bitcoin surpassing $86,000.
In five years, the price is expected to skyrocket to $209,033.
Meanwhile, Economy Watch predicts the price of Bitcoin will return to its heights in April of $64,000 at the end of the year.
Then, at the beginning of 2022, Economy Watch notes Bitcoin will “be heading towards the $70,000 mark.”
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CAN BITCOIN HIT $70,000?
To reach $70,000, Bitcoin would have to climb by 23 percent in the remaining days of the year.
And the way things are trending, Bitcoin might break $70,000 at the end of the year.
At the end of 2021, Coin Price Forecast sees the price surging to $79,576. By mid-2023, it is expected to hit $71,386.
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DIGITAL WALLET, CONTINUED
As with other cryptocurrencies, people will be able to buy and sell libras on exchanges for traditional currencies.
Facebook said that its alternative currency paves the way for smoother transactions and payments online.
The project however faced regulatory resistance over concerns about security and reliability.
In December 2020, Libra changed its name to Diem and moved its operations from Switzerland to the US as part of a “strategic shift.”
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WHAT IS A DIGITAL WALLET?
A digital wallet is a gadget or piece of software that securely stores users’ payment information and passwords for numerous payment methods.
They allow users to store cryptocurrencies, make online or in-store purchases, and track their finances.
In 2019 Facebook said it plans to introduce a cryptocurrency that at the time was called Libra.
The tecg titan said it wanted to create a separate, private currency system to allow users to make cross-border payments more easily.
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CRYPTO AUDIO STREAMING, CONTINUED
According to Audius, over 5.3million people have used the platform this month.
Audio has been listed on CoinMarketCap since October 2020, and has rocketed in value following a deal with Chinese-owned social media giant TikTok.
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CRYPTO AUDIO STREAMING
Audius is a crypto-powered music streaming platform.
It’s owned and controlled by token holders – and tokens are called Audio.
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SWISS REGULATOR APPROVES FIRST CRYPTO FUND
Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority has approved the first Swiss crypto fund, Bitcoin.com reported.
FINMA revealed the fund is called “Crypto Market Index Fund.”
It noted that it is “an investment fund according to Swiss law belonging to the category ‘other funds for alternative investments’ with particular risks.”
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ALEXIS OHANIAN ON CO-FOUNDER OF ETHEREUM, VITALIK BUTERIN, CONCLUSION
“I’ve never been more excited about the potential of the Internet,” Ohanian added.
“And that’s largely thanks to Vitalik Buterin.”
Buterin is the co-founder of Ethereum and also co-founded Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.
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ALEXIS OHANIAN ON CO-FOUNDER OF ETHEREUM, VITALIK BUTERIN, CONTINUED
“No one person could’ve possibly come up with all of the uses for Ethereum, but it did take one person’s idea to get it started,” Ohanian added about Buterin.
“From there, a new world has opened up, and given rise to new ways of leveraging blockchain technology—some of which I’ve invested in.”
“Whether it’s startups like Sorare reinventing fantasy sports or Rainbow users showing off their NFT collections, none of this would’ve existed without Vitalik’s creation.”
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ALEXIS OHANIAN ON CO-FOUNDER OF ETHEREUM, VITALIK BUTERIN
“Thanks to Reddit’s r/Ethereum community, I’ve had the privilege of following Vitalik Buterin’s career from early on, which is why I’ve taken a certain pride in watching his legacy grow,” Ohanian wrote of the programmer.
“Sure, we can talk about the value he’s created as the platform’s co-founder, including Ethereum’s impressive market cap of around $400 billion, the dazzling world of decentralized apps and this year’s boom in the trading of NFTs.”
“What makes Vitalik so special, though, is that he is a builder’s builder.”
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ONE OF THE CO-FOUNDERS OF ETHEREUM NAMED A TIME 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON
One of the co-founders of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021.
Former executive chair of Reddit Alexis Ohanian praised him in a write-up for the piece.
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EXPERT COMMENTS ON TETHER’S VALUE
Despite its claim to be a stablecoin, Tether has still witnessed spikes and sharp falls in price, Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, noted in May.
She told The Sun: “It has also been criticised for a lack of transparency, has had to settle US lawsuits and trading in the currency is banned in the state of New York.”
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WHAT IS TETHER?
The Tether cryptocurrency, which is also known as USDT, was officially launched as Realcoin in 2014, but has since changed its name.
It’s described as a “stablecoin”, which is a type of cryptocurrency that aims to keep crypto values stable.
Tether aims to do this by pegging the price to a regular “fiat” currency, like US dollars, Euros or the Chinese yuan.
Tether claims to keep values steady by holding reserves in that currency in a bank.
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PUSH FOR MEXICO TO FOLLOW EL SALVADOR
In early October, Grupo Elektra, a leading banking and retail company in Mexico, threw its support behind Bitcoin by introducing the Bitcoin Lightning Network as a payment method.
But Mexico’s central bank quickly shot down the plans, warning: “The country’s financial institutions are not authorized to carry out and offer to the public operations with virtual assets, such as Bitcoin, Ether, XRP.”
Many of the country’s lawmakers remain opposed to Bitcoin, despite grappling with high inflation rates due to the continued devaluation of its currency.