‘Did you buy $BOME? No, but I’m thinking of putting a card in it.”. This exchange between two anonymous accounts, read in one of the thousands of Telegram groups engaged in speculation about cryptocurrencies, illustrates the hectic atmosphere of the moment: $BOME is a cryptocurrency created by the Internet user a few hours before this…
© Capital – Bluene Chaye, founder and director of Blu Consulting. In France as in Europe, the fair promotion of information is a challenge that the media industry alone has managed to overcome, usually thanks to public money or the wallets of its owners. And the indicators for 2024 still testify to one further decline…
“There is no plan B in Valkyrie”Jean-Marie Mognetti assured in February Capital when discussing a possible failure of the Valkyrie takeover. The asset manager’s CEO was right to believe this: Coinshares today formalized its acquisition of the US asset manager. With this operation, the French-British asset manager adds approximately $530 million in assets to its…
This start to the week is good for cryptocurrencies: on Monday, March 11, Bitcoin exploded from its previous record by surpassing $71,000! A capitalization that allows silver to overtake the 9th place among the largest capitalizations in the world with 1400 billion dollars, compared to 1380 billion for the metal. It is not the only…
It’s 2015. Bitcoiners gather every month in a small bar in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris to pay for their beers in bitcoins and debate the size of the blocks. They help newbies put together a portfolio before they get some sit start. There is mockery at the sight of a paid Bitcoin event on…
More than 60% profit in one month. This is the parabolic trajectory that bitcoin has been on since the launch of spot ETFs in the United States. Enough to improve the record from 2021 by crossing the limit of 69,170 dollars (approximately 63,700 euros) on Tuesday, March 5. A step that comes barely 10 days…
Two months later the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in the United States, the first review confirms investor interest in this financial product backed by the main cryptocurrency. After the first twenty days of marketing in January, which saw a total of almost $1.5 billion in net inflows, interest in these spot Bitcoin ETFs has…
The digital euro, if it were to see the light of day in the period 2027-2028, could be our third form of currency. True digital cash was developed by the Eurosystem (a grouping of the ECB and national central banks) for the sole purpose of being a means of payment – and not as an…
Alexander Tsydenkov: Our results are positive: we welcomed 17,000 people to the temporary Grand Palais. The big difference with last year was that the audience needed more time to stay on site and interact with each other in a more relaxed atmosphere than the previous edition. We made the choice to leave more space so…
Providing gamers with a platform to create their video game accessories, while studios can audit these creations. This is essentially the proposal of Playmakers, a company founded in 2022 by Ilan Nabeth, Costantino Carrega (both working at the booming Homa studio) and Maxime Niankouri. “We want to engage a game’s existing community by letting them…