Le halving approche à grands pas. Les experts sont divisés sur ce qu'il va advenir du bitcoin après cet évènement. Le prix de la crypto-monnaie va-t-il exploser, stagner ou bien chuter ?

Le 3 avril 2024, le Bitcoin Cash, une copie dérivée du bitcoin, a fait son halving en avant-première. Deux semaines avant le BTC, cette cryptomonnaie a divisé son émission de jetons numériques par deux. Elle nous donne un aperçu de ce qui attend le véritable bitcoin le 20 avril.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Federal prosecutors indicted a Nebraska man on charges he perpetrated a cryptojacking scheme that defrauded two cloud providers -- one based in Seattle and the other in Redmond, Washington -- out of $3.5 million. The indictment, filed in US District Court for the Eastern District of New York and unsealed on Monday, charges Charles O. Parks III -- 45 of Omaha, Nebraska -- with wire fraud, money laundering, and engaging in unlawful monetary transactions in connection with the scheme. Parks has yet to enter a plea and is scheduled to make an initial appearance in federal court in Omaha on Tuesday. Parks was arrested last Friday. Prosecutors allege that Parks defrauded "two well-known providers of cloud computing services" of more than $3.5 million in computing resources to mine cryptocurrency. The indictment says the activity was in furtherance of a cryptojacking scheme, a term for crimes that generate digital coin through the acquisition of computing resources and electricity of others through fraud, hacking, or other illegal means. Details laid out in the indictment underscore the failed economics involved in the mining of most cryptocurrencies. The $3.5 million of computing resources yielded roughly $1 million worth of cryptocurrency. In the process, massive amounts of energy were consumed. [...] Prosecutors didn't say precisely how Parks was able to trick the providers into giving him elevated services, deferring unpaid payments, or failing to discover the allegedly fraudulent behavior. They also didn't identify either of the cloud providers by name. Based on the details, however, they are almost certainly Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. If convicted on all charges, Parks faces as much as 30 years in prison.

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Alleged Cryptojacking Scheme Consumed $3.5 Million of Stolen Computing To Make Just $1 Million

Le halving est un phénomène très attendu par l'industrie des crypto-monnaies, car il est normalement suivi par une forte période d'augmentation des prix. Cette fois-ci, les mineurs sont également à l'affût de bitcoins particuliers.

Le halving du bitcoin approche de plus en plus. L'évènement devrait survenir le 19 avril, mais l'heure exacte reste encore floue, et aucun des comptes à rebours en ligne n'est d'accord. Comment cela se fait-il ?

Dollar, euro ou yen : toutes ces monnaies ont leur émoji. Alors pourquoi pas le bitcoin ? À quelques jours du halving, des activistes ont lancé une pétition en ligne pour donner à la cryptomonnaie emblématique son émoji. Pourrons-nous bientôt inonder nos messages d'émoticônes BTC ? La question est moins anodine qu'on ne le pense.

A jury found that Do Kwon and Terraform Labs misled investors before the collapse of the company’s namesake cryptocurrency

A jury in Manhattan found a Singapore-based former crypto CEO liable on civil fraud charges on Friday, agreeing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that both he and his firm misled investors before the 2022 collapse of the company’s namesake cryptocurrency wrecked cryptocurrency markets.

The jury delivered the verdict in federal court after a two-week trial after hearing closing arguments earlier in the day. Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon did not attend the trial, as he has been detained in Montenegro since March 2023. He was intercepted while on his way to Dubai on the lam from authorities in multiple countries, traveling using forged Costa Rican travel documents.

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Les modèles prédictifs d’une nouvelle étude scientifique sont parvenus à dater ce qui serait la « fin du bitcoin », déjà tant de fois annoncée par erreur. Plongée dans ces statistiques diseuses de mauvaise aventure.

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. and U.K. are investigating more than $20 billion worth of USDT transactions that have passed through Garantex, a Russia-based crypto exchange. Milk Road reports: If confirmed, the $20 billion in transactions would represent one of the most significant breaches of the sanctions imposed on Russia since the conflict began. However, the sources cautioned that the inquiries are ongoing and that it is too early to draw conclusions given the complexity of crypto transactions. They also noted that there was no immediate suggestion of wrongdoing by Tether. Key points: - The transactions under scrutiny were conducted using Tether (USDT). - The US and UK sanctioned Garantex on suspicion of facilitating financial crimes and illicit transactions in Russia. - The $20 billion USDT transactions would represent one of the biggest breaches of sanctions imposed on Russia since the start of the war. - Tether froze assets of entities on the U.S. sanctions list.

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US, UK Investigate $20 Billion of Crypto Transfers To Garantex Russian Exchange