'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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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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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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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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