core memory obviously

The reason for this is that the exchange's platform provider Alphapoint allegedly has been subject to a hacker attack.

The Norwegian crypto exchange Bitcoins Norway announced on Monday night (CEST) that they stop all trading on their platform and that the users’ cryptocurrencies will be sold “as fast as it is practically possible”.

The popular wallet service Electrum is soon to add support for bitcoin’s lightning network.

Electrum’s founder Thomas Voegtlin told CoinDesk from the BIP001 blockchain event in Odessa, Ukraine, that work on the solution for sending lightning transactions with the Electrum wallet is now close to its official release.

While he declined to reveal a specific release date, Voegtlin said:

“We’ve been doing this work for about a year in a separate branch [on GitHub] and we’ve reached the point when we are ready to merge it with our master branch. This is going to happen in the coming weeks until the end of July, and it means that the next major release will have lightning support.”

El monedero de Bitcoin (BTC) Electrum pronto acogerá el soporte para la Lightning Network (LN), informó el medio de noticias de criptomonedas ruso Forklog en telegram el 5 de julio.

En una actualización en redes sociales, la publicación decía que el fundador Thomas Voegtlin había revelado el próximo lanzamiento en la conferencia BIP001 en curso en Odessa, Ucrania.

Electrum, una de los monederos de bitcoin más antiguos del mercado desde 2011, dijo que la funcionalidad de LN formaría parte de una inminente actualización importante.

The vocal Bitcoin hater @PeterSchiff recently admitted that he actually does own some Bitcoin.

Never listen to what they say, always watch what they do with their money!

Bitcoin was built as a tool that would provide respite from fiat, but it is also being used as a speculative asset for trading. Institutions like CME, CBOE, Grayscale, etc have developed products based on Bitcoin’s price movements for investors who do not want to risk it.

Bitcoin CME Futures has been gaining a lot of traction and is being used as a tool to help traders understand the correlation between Bitcoin spot prices and futures markets.

“We’re seeing the convergence of investor demand for digital assets alongside regulatory certainty, which we believe is being driven by the advent of more infrastructure to support access and trust in this market. ”

Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano — co-founder of crypto asset management firm Morgan Creek Digital Assets — predicts bitcoin (BTC) will hit $100,000 by the end of 2021.

A Geographic Breakdown of Crypto Twitter

Overall 38.9% of total Bitcoin tweets come from the US and 10.5% from the UK.

The top five countries where Bitcoin is discussed on Twitter are the US, UK, Canada, Turkey, India, and Australia.

Otros cuatro legisladores de Estados Unidos hacen un llamado formal a Facebook, para detener todo desarrollo de su criptomoneda Libra. Esto por medio de una nueva carta enviada a los socios ejecutivos del gigante en redes sociales.

Preocupaciones sobre la Privacidad
La carta hace referencia a recientes problemas de privacidad en el que se ha visto involucrado Facebook. En estas se incluye el escándalo de Cambridge Analytica, donde una compañía de consultoría política obtuvo acceso a información de más de 50 millones de usuarios de Facebook. Actualmente, Facebook ya espera pagar una multa de USD 5 mil millones a la Comisión Federal de Comercio, como resultado de su participación con las acciones de Cambridge Analytica. Esto, al mismo tiempo que se mantiene bajo un decreto de consentimiento “por engañar a los consumidores y no mantener la privacidad de los datos de los consumidores”.

Casa’s new mobile app makes it easier to manage your lightning node on the go.

Launched today, the new Sats App works like a noncustodial wallet with some unique features. In addition to being able to manage a user’s lightning node from the mobile app, Casa CEO Jeremy Welch said the startup will soon roll out a rewards program for earning small amounts of bitcoin through the app.

This news doesn't pass Fillippone bullshit test:

• LBX is an empty box according to Bloomberg Terminal
• Argento doesn't exists according to Bloomberg
• No securities are issued/related to Argento
• HODL, FOMO or MOON are not related to specific ISIN codes on BBG

Someone I fully trust checked those infos for me on a BBG terminal.
This is second time Cointelegraph posted bullshit in a couple of days.

Dos empresas europeas han lanzado lo que describen como el primer bono de bitcoin genuino (BTC) del mundo, confirmaron en un comunicado de prensa conjunto el 3 de julio.

Argento, una empresa de titularización con sede en Luxemburgo, unió fuerzas con London Block Exchange (LBX) para emitir el bono expresado en bitcoin, que está reglamentado por el órgano regulador del Reino Unido, la Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Hay varias duraciones disponibles, Argento los nombra visiblemente según fenómenos criptoespecíficos como "FOMO", "HODL" y "MOON".

Two European companies have launched what they describe as the world’s first genuine bitcoin (BTC) bond, they confirmed in a joint press release on July 3.

Luxembourg-based Argento, a securitization firm, joined forces with London Block Exchange (LBX) to issue the bitcoin-denominated bond, which is regulated under the United Kingdom’s regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Various durations are available, Argento conspicuously naming them after crypto-specific phenomena such as ‘FOMO,’ ‘HODL’ and ‘MOON.’

HODLers, LBX says, form one of the bond’s major target markets.

Here's the on-chain volume profile for BTCUSD

Red = volume during bears
Green = volume during bulls

Volume bars units is BTC moving on-chain

Notice how few coins are changing hands on-chain in this cycle. I put this down to more HODL activity off-chain, and more lockup.