This weekend, the Cote d’Azur sees the final day of the Cannes Film Festival and the glitz and glamour of the Monaco Grand Prix. Has the bitcoin world been able to match that excitement this week?
bitcoin Price – Coiling Up For The Next Push?
On the surface, one might almost believe that bitcoin price was a non-story this week. BTC has ended the week pretty much exactly where it started, hovering around (but slightly under) $8000.
But the circumstances around that are perhaps the most telling indicators. We started the week having just pulled back to $8000 from the flash crash of the Friday before. Early in the week, BTC rallied to a YTD high of before a rejection and pullback.
Then we had , , , then , prompting Weiss to declare the since 2015!
Bullish consensus seems to agree with Max Keiser, who suggested that price was . It has already by a factor of ten this year.
Regulatory Woes
As widely expected, the SEC once again on the VanEck bitcoin-ETF, with 14 areas that it has further questions on.
Crypto-startup Circle laid off 10% of its workforce, citing the . It claimed the lack of clarity in US regulation was .
To much dismay, European authorities Dutch bitcoin Mixer, Bestmixer.io.
Mainstream bitcoin Acceptance
Telecoms giant, AT&T are now for your phone bill, and the number of s who are interested in receiving salaries in bitcoin is growing.
A senior lawyer in China even suggested that occasional peer-to-peer transaction would over there.
Who Can Be Most Wrong About bitcoin?
Could it be veteran , who claimed that there is ‘no way that people are going to work for salaries paid in bitcoin’?
Or perhaps, , the majority of whom would choose to receive one dollar rather than one bitcoin?
Nope. It’s , who wrote an anti-bitcoin article with just 89 words, and a resulting lack of any content. His proudest moment was punning bitcoin with Bitcon.
And speaking of Bitcon…
The Resurrection Of Bitconnect
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Bitconnect is Back!
Everybody’s favorite scam-based meme featuring Carlos Matos, announced on Twitter that in new 2.0 guise on July 1st. True to form, a promised partnership with Binance turned out to just be a link to the Binance website.
And the ‘more information’ promised on its own official website, was just a duplicate of the Twitter feed.
That ‘official website’ has now with a link to the Ledger store. Does that mean the party’s off again then guys?
What were the most important stories of the past week for bitcoin? Share your thoughts below!
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The Rundown
Published at Sun, 26 May 2019 10:00:02 +0000
