Internet
As the price of Bitcoin soared since first being introduced, investors have sought ways to get a piece of the cryptocurrency action. Financial firms have rushed to come up with products that feed investors' crypto appetite, ...
Mar 24, 2022
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(Tech Xplore)—Business watchers are looking to blockchain technology as transformational but easier said than done.
Energy & Green Tech
Extracting a dollar's worth of cryptocurrency such as bitcoin from the deep Web consumes three times more energy than digging up a dollar's worth of gold, researchers said Monday.
Nov 5, 2018
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Canada's main securities regulator has cleared the launch of the world's first exchange-traded bitcoin fund, the investment manager and the regulator said Friday, giving retail investors greater access to the booming cryptocurrency.
Feb 13, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Bitcoin has landed front and center in the ongoing debate over benefits of cryptocurrencies and impact on the environment.
Business
A new feature coming to Venmo is making it easier for users to claim a stake in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
Apr 20, 2021
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Financial payments startup Square was at work Friday on a real-world wallet for safely pocketing bitcoin cryptocurrency.
Jul 10, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—We heard in early studies that Bitcoin used much energy. Digiconomist can take us down memory lane when an investigation into the energy consumption of the Bitcoin network was conducted by Karl J. O'Dwyer ...
Internet
The good news: the Bitcoin network had not reached the widely predicted saturation point as recently feared. The bad news: The spam that caused the problem is suggesting to some Bitcoin watchers that saturation is not that ...
Energy & Green Tech
Bitcoin's burgeoning electricity demands have attracted almost as much attention as the cryptocurrency's wildly fluctuating value. But estimating exactly how much electricity the Bitcoin network uses, necessary for understanding ...
May 16, 2018
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