Bitcoin Versus The People's Ledger
In a comparison of bitcoin and the idealized financial system of Saule Omarova, we find a clear superiority in the real world use of bitcoin.Rumblings from the belly of the Washington beast are being heard in the bitcoin world. President Joe Biden has generated tremendous controversy by nominating Saule Omarova to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Brian Brooks showed in 2020 how the OCC can be a powerful force on the regulated side of bitcoin, so it's worth understanding the dispute around Omarova, and what her views are. As with other regulators, she can not stop....
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According to Pascal Gauthier, CEO at Ledger, in spite of the bear market there is a lot to be optimistic about in the crypto and Web 3 space. The future for crypto remains very bright. That’s according to the CEO of Ledger, Pascal Gauthier who sat down for a tête-à-tête with Cointelegraph in his home country, France. Gauthier, who enters his eighth year working at Ledger, explained that the recent downward price action in Bitcoin has not brought interest in crypto to a standstill:“Bitcoin might be down, but people are buying NFTs and you know, they're participating in communities.”Gauthier....
Our latest Ledger Wallet giveaway is now over, and the winners have been chosen. This time, we gave away a Ledger Nano, a Ledger Starter, and a Ledger OTG. The giveaway started on December 14, 2015, and ended today. Three winners were chosen, and they will be notified via email. People were able to enter this giveaway by signing up for our daily newsletter, which sent them emails regarding the content published on Bitcoinist.net. The email addresses that subscribed to the mailing list after the giveaway started were added to a list. We randomly selected three winners from that list, and....
The French crypto wallet company Ledger will educate people about crypto security using the virtual reality of The Sandbox. Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Ledger has partnered with blockchain game The Sandbox to promote crypto education in its virtual world.Ian Rogers, Ledger’s chief experience officer, announced the news at Non-Fungible Conference on Monday. He said that the new partnership aims to bring security into The Sandbox’s world and provide Ledger with a place in the game to educate people about crypto.Rogers thanked The Sandbox and Sebastien Borget, the company’s....
Bitcoin price is up 30% versus Ethereum (ETH) in 2023, and bulls appear not to be slowing down, looking at the performance in the weekly chart. BTC is on the brink of pushing ETH lower at spot rates, registering new 2023 lows and extending gains from early this year. The Downtrend Remains: Will Bitcoin Extend Rally? Bitcoin bulls are in the driving seat. Candlestick arrangement in the weekly chart shows that BTC pushed on, extending its rally against the second most valuable coin despite attempts for higher highs in mid-August. In the second week of August, ETH added roughly 7% versus....
A few months ago, Bitcoinist held a giveaway where three lucky winners received a Ledger hardware Bitcoin wallet for free. We gave away three different Ledger products: the Ledger Nano, Ledger HW.1 and Ledger Unplugged. Now, we’re giving away Ledger devices again, and this time we have some new products up for grabs. In this giveaway, we are offering another Ledger Nano, in addition to two different products. We have one Ledger Starter to give away; this device is a “secure provisioning system”. The Starter has “an isolated offline operating system that plugs into the USB port of your PC....