'It's robbery': Salvadorans slow to adopt Bitcoin
Two years ago, El Salvador shrugged off a chorus of warnings and adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in a bid to revitalize its economy and improve access to financial services.
Sep 7, 2023
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New York couple plead guilty to bitcoin laundering
A married couple from New York dubbed "Bitcoin Bonnie and Crypto Clyde" pleaded guilty on Thursday to laundering billions of dollars in stolen bitcoin, prosecutors announced.
Aug 3, 2023
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Team develops a bridge between different cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin is probably the best-known cryptocurrency in the world today—but there are many others, each implementing and offering different technical features. For exchanging a cryptocurrency for another, so-called "bridges" ...
Jun 26, 2023
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Almost no one uses Bitcoin as currency, new data show. It's actually more like gambling
Bitcoin boosters like to claim Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies, are becoming mainstream. There's a good reason to want people to believe this.
Jun 23, 2023
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Patching up security gaps in cryptocurrencies often takes a long time, find researchers
A defining characteristic of cryptocurrencies is that they are organized in a decentralized system and are not managed by a central bank like conventional currencies. This creates problems when researchers detect security ...
May 8, 2023
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Bitcoin tops $25,000 to hit eight-month high
Bitcoin hit an eight-month high to surge past $25,000 on Thursday as the volatile cryptocurrency rises despite pressure from US regulators.
Feb 16, 2023
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After a year of collapses, cryptocurrency's future hangs in the balance
Spectacular cryptocurrency failures in 2022 have raised the stakes for the industry amid questions about the enduring viability of a technology that advocates say has the potential to revolutionize finance.
Jan 4, 2023
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A tool capable of tracking cybercrime financial transactions in Bitcoin
IMDEA Software researchers Gibran Gómez, Pedro Moreno-Sánchez and Juan Caballero have created an open-source automated tool to track the financial relationships of malicious entities that abuse Bitcoin technology, tested ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Cash crops: Dutch use bitcoin mining to grow tulips
Tulips and bitcoin have both been associated with financial bubbles in their time, but in a giant greenhouse near Amsterdam the Dutch are trying to make them work together.
Dec 11, 2022
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Cryptocurrencies can be more sustainable by following Ethereum's lead, says researcher
Bitcoin has an emissions problem. With the recent revelation that the production of cryptocurrency emits as much annual carbon dioxide as a small country, bans on cryptomining have popped up around the world. But Bitcoin's ...
Dec 6, 2022
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