Get your credit card points in Bitcoin: Mastercard to integrate crypto into its platforms
Mastercard is planning on integrating Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies into its payments and banking platforms.
Oct 26, 2021
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A single Bitcoin transaction could use as much water as a backyard swimming pool
Cryptocurrency mining uses a significant amount of water amid the global water crisis, and its water demand may grow further. In a commentary published November 29 in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability, financial economist ...
Nov 29, 2023
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Crypto-currencies and criminality: myth or reality?
The recent bust of a worldwide international paedophile ring using Bitcoin payments highlighted one of the key fears surrounding crypto-currencies—their use by criminals.
Nov 3, 2019
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PayPal to let users pay for purchases at checkout using Bitcoin, other cryptocurrency
Will you be paying with a Visa, Mastercard or Bitcoin?
Mar 31, 2021
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Bitcoin dives as China widens crackdown on crypto mining
Bitcoin tumbled more than 10 percent Monday after China broadened a crackdown on its massive cryptocurrency mining industry with a ban on mines in a key southwestern province.
Jun 21, 2021
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Using Bitcoin to prevent identity theft
A reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin is a digital-currency scheme designed to wrest control of the monetary system from central banks. With Bitcoin, anyone can mint money, provided he or she can complete a complex ...
May 24, 2017
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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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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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Why does bitcoin consume 'insane' energy?
Cryptocurrency fans have counted Tesla boss Elon Musk as among their champions, but this week he rocked their world by questioning the future of the digital assets and singling out carbon emissions from bitcoin mining for ...
May 13, 2021
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Bitcoin soars past $40,000 for the first time
The price of the cryptocurrency bitcoin soared past $40,000 for the first time on Thursday, rising $10,000 in just five days.
Jan 7, 2021
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