The Bitcoin had a difficult week, weakened by China's offensive and doubts issued by a major Wall Street banker, but hopes to revive with the help of American boxer Floyd Mayweather, who praises the merits on social networks. The crypto-currency was worth 3,801.10 dollars on Friday at 4:30 pm GMT, after going down to $ 2,981.45 a little earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It lost nearly 11% of its value in a week. On 1 September, the bitcoin had approached the psychological bar of the 5,000 dollars, displaying at 4,921.45 dollars, of the never-seen. But since this surge, virtual currency, symbol of the popularity of crypto-coins with the general public, chained the bad news. The National Internet Finance Association (NIFA), which in China oversees the sector in close ties with the government, has just condemned the "dangers" of crypto-currencies, while Beijing has decided to ban new currency issues virtual.
Thursday, it is a large Chinese trading platform, BTC China, which has decided to stop any bitcoin transaction. For the CEO of the first US bank JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, the virtual currency will simply "implode" because it is a "scam". She "is not going to end well," he said during a big raout of finance Tuesday. The bitcoin, whose technology, the blockchain is nevertheless acclaimed for the transparency it could inject into several parts of the economy, is not let down and counts on media supports to reverse the cycle of bad news.
On Friday, boxer Floyd Mayweather, recruited by the start-up Centra who offers bank cards in bitcoin, praised the merits on social networks. "In the process of spending bitcoins (...) and other types of crypto-currencies in Beverly Hills," Los Angeles California's upscale neighborhood, wrote on his Twitter account the legend of boxing. A message accompanied by a photo representative sitting on a chair in what appears as a shoe store, holding a credit card by Centra.
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