Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and boss of Facebook is a man in a hurry. Today he is presenting "Libra", which he wants to put into circulation as early as 2020. His currency. In doing so, he is giving his group a power hitherto reserved for the states. With more than two billion users, Facebook has become a major player on the Internet.
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Bitcoin is regularly in the headlines. This star of the cryptodevises arouses both waves of enthusiasm, sometimes hysterical, and the darkest fears and suspicions. Two studies have just been published simultaneously, shedding new light on cryptomoney. These are energy chasms that emit in
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The star cryptodevise, already in decline for a few weeks, has seen its price plummet to $6400. At the end of December Bitcoin was quoted at 20,000 $. "Behind this movement, we have to look at the regulatory tightening and the fact that investors are losing confidence in virtual currencies, especially after
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The price of bitcoin was close to 20,000 $ at the end of last year, and although the cryptodevice has since fallen, there are signs that a lack of regulation could hurt investors and trigger the next financial crisis. Despite innovative technology
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It's looking more and more like a speculative bubble. The price of Bitcoin continued to soar on Thursday, to the point of exceeding the $15,000 mark for the first time in its history, thanks to a jump of more than 50 % in one week. The virtual currency
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Telcoin, a Japan-based start-up, is about to launch the first mobile crypto-money, the first crypto-money distributed by mobile operators and accepted everywhere. Its objective: to reach the market of the two billion unbanked people in the world. In the line of sight, the creation of a new currency in
PlusWhile Bitcoin (or BTC), created in 2009, is breaking new records every week and is now on first-name terms with $10,000 (compared with $1,000 at the beginning of 2017 and... $1 in 2011), economists are divided: is it really a new decentralized currency free of any central bank or a purely speculative instrument?
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Appeared in 2008 and created by the "ever" enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto, the concept of blockchain (BC) initially consisted of an original combination of cryptographic mechanisms and peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture, dedicated to the implementation of a virtual currency: the bitcoin. The blockchain is often defined as
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The press is talking about it more and more often. But what is Bitcoin? Will it be the currency of the future? In recent months, the business media in all countries have been talking a lot about Bitcoin. You can find articles on Bitcoin in: Le Monde, Les Échos,
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