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Melania Trump's crypto-only hat auction has become collateral damage in the cryptocurrency crash
The former First Lady is auctioning off a white hat, but the crypto-only bids have led to its value…
Cheryl Teh
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Elon Musk’s Tesla may be ready for a second innings in cryptocurrency payments
The electric car company owned by billionaire Elon Musk, Tesla, is mulling over possibly accepting …
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'Black Swan' author Nassim Taleb compared bitcoin to a disease, called it a speculative bubble, and said it was worthless. Here are 8 of his best tweets about the crypto.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has dismissed the idea that bitcoin is a currency, a store of value, an infla…
Theron Mohamed
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Bitcoin is losing its dominance over other cryptocurrencies in payments to merchants, crypto processor BitPay says
Bitcoin's use at merchants that use BitPay's services fell to 65% in 2021 from 92% in 2020, the com…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Crypto traders turned tungsten into a meme. Now they can buy it with bitcoin.
"Crypto just has a propensity for the density," CMS Holdings' Dan Matuszewski told The Block Crypto.
Natasha Dailey
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Russian central bank chief denies Moscow is at risk of default and touts digital ruble for international payments
"Russia has all necessary financial resources. There is no threat of default," Bank of Russia Gover…
Brian Evans
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Andreessen Horowitz-backed Substack will start accepting bitcoin as payment for select crypto content
Currently only two crypto-focused Substack applications are accepting bitcoin as payment for subscr…
Emily Graffeo
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Vanguard CEO says asset-management giant won't pursue a bitcoin ETF, unlike rivals
Rivals such as BlackRock and Fidelity are waiting to get their applications for a spot bitcoin ETF …
Filip De Mott
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The UK says it's ready to regulate stablecoins for payments — and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are next on its list
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury said the UK government sees significant potential in crypto …
Hamza Fareed Malik
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Bitcoin does not make payments anonymous — just really hard to trace
Even the most private of cryptocurrencies like Monero, DASH, and Verge are traceable to a cert…
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Over half of El Salvador's citizens are skeptical of the country's move to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, survey shows
54% of Salvadorans polled in a new survey viewed the country's bitcoin adoption as "not at all corr…
Emily Graffeo
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This $59 million mansion on the high-security Miami island known as 'Billionaire's bunker' is now accepting payment in Bitcoin check it out
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Hannah Towey
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Bitcoin surges 15% to top $38,000, boosted by comments from influential investors and chatter about Amazon getting into crypto
A report about Amazon possibly accepting bitcoin payments by the end of 2021 is seen as helping dri…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Uber CEO says cryptocurrencies need to become more efficient for the ride-hailing company to accept them as payment
Crypto has not yet demonstrated its utility in terms of being an efficient exchange of value, Uber …
Shalini Nagarajan
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A group of MIT alums in their 20s could be sitting on 13,000% bitcoin returns after taking part in a school project that gave them free crypto
In 2014, the MIT Bitcoin Project gave away free cryptocurrency to any student who wanted to partici…
Emily Graffeo
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Digital currencies could boost economic growth in developing countries where more than 50% of adults don't have a bank account, BofA says
"Digital currencies have the potential to address many practical constraints on financial services …
Emily Graffeo
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Burger King is partnering with Robinhood to give away $2.6 million of crypto to the fast food chain's loyalty club members
The odds of winning are 100,011-to-1 for a bitcoin prize, 10,001-to-1 for ether, and 1-to-1 for dog…
Isabelle Lee
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Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller says it will be difficult to unseat bitcoin as the top store-of-value crypto asset, even as new challengers emerge daily
"It's going to be very hard to unseat bitcoin as a store of value asset," Druckenmiller told CNBC. …
Emily Graffeo
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29-year old billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried says he got into crypto just to trade - but 2 things quickly made him realize the long-term potential of digital money
One of crypto's richest people initially entered into the space without a firm stance on the future…
Emily Graffeo
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Amazon rejects speculation about bitcoin payment plans as untrue, but says it's still exploring crypto
Speculation about Amazon's plans to accept payments in bitcoin by the end of 2021 is not true, a sp…