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While the price of Bitcoin beats the record for the record, many prominent figures of the financial world are in a hurry to express their opinion on what is happening.
Financial analyst and founder of Fundstrat, as well as former chief strategy strategist JPMorgan Chase, Tom Lee predicts the growth of Bitcoin by 40%. In his opinion, the price will reach $ 11 500 by the middle of 2018. "For several weeks our forecast was neutral, since the price of Bitcoin at that time (about $ 7,400) exceeded our estimates. Two weeks ago, Bitcoin fell to $ 5 600 and rebounded, setting a new high. This drop to $ 5 600 cleared the market from investors who quickly got rid of the crypto currency, and we do not see the need to be cautious ... We recommend buying Bitcoins at current levels. "
Recently, the founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma said that he does not have much interest in Bitcoin. What do the heads of Chinese giants of e-commerce - Alibaba, JD and 58.com say today about Bitcoin and blockchain? On November 10, Jack Ma talked about his film "The Art of Attack and Defense" (Gong Shou Dao) at the "Dialogue with Jack Ma" event in Shanghai. The actress, whose brother is obsessed with Bitcoin, asked the billionaire how he looks at the future of the cryptocurrency.
About 500 BCH, worth more than 600 thousand dollars, which were sent by inattentive users to Segwit addresses (Bitcoin Cash does not support this technology) have already been transferred from the "trap" - now the coins are on the same address. This happened shortly after the way of the return of the "hanging" Bitcoin Cash coins was proposed. Obviously, an unknown "hacker" turned this operation on without assistance.
The creation of Bitcoin's forks with copying of all existing balances containing "gift" coins for all Bitcoin owners is undoubtedly a trend of recent months. In fact, why invest time and money in development or marketing, if it is so simple to attract a great many people who will not refuse to get something for nothing? First, a successful Bitcoin Cash, then a dubious Bitcoin Gold and Bitcoin Silver, which in a few days slid down almost to zero. Now another copy of Bitcoin - Super Bitcoin (SBTC), follows them. The SBTC network plans to appear on block 498888 (around mid-December), and the owners of the original Bitcoin will receive the same SBTC as BTC's "absolutely free" - you just need to get a wallet. According to the official website, SBTC scales the block size to 8 megabytes, and will use smart contracts and Lightning network.
At the Bittrex cryptocurrency Exchange, pairs of trades with Bitcoin Gold started, as well as the input and output of coins. All users who had balance sheets in Bitcoins at the time of the "snap shot" on October 24, 2017 were credited with BTG coins at a ratio of 1 to 1. In the first few minutes, the rate of BTG to BTC was also 1 to 1, however this value changed rapidly. Bittrex – the first major cryptocurrency exchange, which opened full support for BTG, including the input and output of coins. Prior to this, the largest exchange that traded BTG was Bitfinex. However, on it, as on other sites, only the balances accrued after the hardforks, and the input and output are still not working.
The Australian Government has allocated 8 million Australian dollars (about $ 6 million) for the use of blockchain technology in the field of public services. In particular, AUD 2.57 million will go directly to the project, which will be created in the city of Fremantle. Another 5.6 million AUD will be allocated by the partners of the project - the Curtin University, Murdoch University, LandCorp, CSIRO and Cisco.
Will there be a happy owner of $ 245 million, willing to spend it on restoring the infamous MtGox exchange? Having not yet paid off with lenders who have been waiting for a refund for almost four years, Mark Karpeles, who has grown thin in a Japanese prison, wants to restore the exchange and even hopes for community support. Therefore, without pleading guilty to the charges against him of money laundering and embezzlement, Karpeles stated that the revival of MtGox would help creditors get some of the money lost because of the bankruptcy of the exchange. Otherwise, due to the complexity of the bankruptcy procedure, creditors can hardly hope for early repayments. Karpeles told this in his blog.
The Yahoo Finance portal conducted a survey among investors on the topic of how they relate to Bitcoin. The survey involved 6,300 portal readers. So, the questions and the results: Did you buy Bitcoins? 23% of respondents answered that they bought Bitcoins, of which more than half started buying them since the beginning of 2017, and 20% still own them.
