Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Switzerland-based 21shares announced it’s going to offer its crypto exchange-traded product (ETP) to institutional investors in Britain. The platform said the aim is to provide U.K. investors with exposure to bitcoin without the need to deal wi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Onchain data indicates that bitcoin transactions per day have plummeted to lows not seen since October 2018. Further, bitcoin transaction fees have dropped 93% after touching a high of $62 per transaction in April 2021.
Bitcoin Daily Transaction Rate...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Former U.S. President Donald Trump says he does not like bitcoin because it is a currency that competes with the dollar, which he wants to be the currency of the world. He calls bitcoin a scam and wants cryptocurrency to be very heavily regulated.
Tr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
A professor of finance and business economics at the University of Southern California says that asset managers focusing on growth strategy could violate their fiduciary duty if they do not consider bitcoin in their portfolios.
Asset Managers With Gr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
U.S. law enforcement officials from the Justice Department on Monday announced the seizure of $2.3 million dollars worth of crypto assets that were paid to the Colonial Pipeline hackers. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco explained during a news con...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, has weighed in the future of his country now that there is a formal proposal for making Bitcoin a legal tender, announcing complementary measures. Bukele mentioned yesterday on Twitter there would be no capital...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Two U.S. senators have urged lawmakers to increase measures to regulate cryptocurrencies, including how to trace cryptocurrency transactions, in order to combat ransomware attacks. “We haven’t figured out in the country or in the world ho...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Player cashes out approximately $180,000 after winning it on Sun of Fortune: Hold the Jackpot!
Multiple Wins Result in a Total Bank of Over 5 BTC
The weather was perfect, with just enough sunshine to warm up one lucky player starting a gaming sessi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Microstrategy will soon hold more than 100,000 bitcoins in its treasury. The company is raising $400 million by selling senior secured notes and will use the proceeds to acquire additional bitcoins.
Microstrategy Acquiring More Bitcoin
Microstrategy...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The chairman of major Indian company Infosys says that crypto should be regulated as an asset, like a commodity. He believes that crypto investors will significantly contribute to India’s economy.
Infosys Chairman Wants Crypto Regulated as an A...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. Bitcoin.com Exchange is ecstatic to announce the listing of STAK, being available to trade on the 7th June 2021 at 10:00AM UTC. STAK was created by the Jigstack team, as the driver and as its governance token, incorporating a variety o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Over six years ago, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a couple of scholars distributed $100 in bitcoin to 3,100 students. According to testimony from a few participants who held the leading crypto asset since then, the students nett...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
New technologies, including blockchain and cryptocurrency mining, have helped Iran to increase budget receipts and withstand foreign sanctions, according to the country’s minister for economy and finance. The high-ranking official believes the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, banned the accounts of several key cryptocurrency and defi influencers in the country yesterday, according to reports from local sources. This might be a continuation of the anti-crypto stance the Chines...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller has shared how he got into bitcoin and it involved famed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones. When bitcoin was going up, Druckenmiller said, “I just couldn’t stand the fact that it was going up and I didn...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The finance minister of Norway believes that bitcoin may experience “breakthroughs.” He noted that “There is no doubt that there is great interest in cryptocurrency both in Norway and internationally.”
Bitcoin May See Breakthr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Investment bank Goldman Sachs recently held two roundtable sessions for chief investment officers of hedge funds. The bank found that they see bitcoin as their least favorite investment. In contrast, the latest Bank of America Fund Manager Survey fou...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
On Friday, the well known nonprofit charitywater.org announced the launch of a celebrity-funded Bitcoin Water Trust initiative. The trust will be allowed to hold bitcoin donations to fund water projects worldwide until 2025.
Charity Water Launches B...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
PRESS RELEASE. TimeCoinProtocol is the decentralized sharing economy protocol which aims to optimize world resource usage. Various applications can be built and run on theTimeCoinProtocol including third party applications. The project puts a strong...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The National Court in Spain has suspended the hearing destined to deal with the extradition request that John McAfee, the well known cryptocurrency influencer, has pending for its tax-related crimes in the U.S. The entrepreneur was apprehended in Oct...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Progressive Care, a company that operates a chain of pharmacies in the United States, has announced it’s now accepting cryptocurrency for its Covid-19 rapid testing services. Customers are welcome to pay with bitcoin for the quick tests offered...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
As the conversation about Bitcoin’s energy consumption reaches a fever pitch, Jack Dorsey’s payment provider Square has unveiled plans to fund a sustainable bitcoin mining facility in conjunction with Blockstream.
Mining Project to Serve...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The G7 finance ministers and central bank governors have met and agreed to work towards common principles for state-backed digital currencies and publish their conclusions this year. They said these digital currencies “could act as both a liqui...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Tony Hawk, the American professional skateboarder often referred to as ‘Birdman,’ discussed bitcoin at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami and told the crowd he got into the crypto economy in 2012. Hawk said he heard about the crypto ass...