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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BlockFi files for bankruptcy, latest crypto company to fail
Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, the latest casualty of the collapse of crypto exchange FTX.
Nov 28, 2022
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Salvadoran president vows to buy "one #Bitcoin every day'
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, said Thursday the nation would buy one unit of the currency every day, doubling down in the face of public criticism of his embrace of ...
Nov 17, 2022
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Three out of four bitcoin investors have lost money: study
Roughly three-quarters of people who have bought bitcoin have lost money according to a study published Monday as the cryptocurrency sector reels from the collapse of a major exchange that has sapped confidence.
Nov 14, 2022
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US seizes $3.4 bn in bitcoin stolen from Silk Road
The US government announced Monday it had seized $3.4 billion in bitcoin from a real estate developer who stole the cryptocurrency from the dark web marketplace Silk Road a decade ago.
Nov 7, 2022
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In Niagara Falls, bitcoin mining brings a new roar to town
In the US border town of Niagara Falls, residents accustomed to the soothing roar of the famous waterfalls recently discovered a much less pleasant sound: the "haunting hum" of bitcoin mining farms.
Nov 2, 2022
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