Bitcoin News
Wasted Natural Gas Flares: An Opportunity for Bitcoin?
Bitcoin miners are incentivised to find cheap and reliable sources of energy. The energy mix varies, but often it is “stranded” ...
Bitcoin Up 10% in a Week, Smashes 5-Month High and Soars Past A$75k
Bitcoin (BTC) is encroaching on its all-time high, with some calling this month “Uptober”. The digital asset has moved nearly 12...
El Salvador to Use Bitcoin Profits to Build $4 Million Pet Hospital
El Salvador President Nakib Bukele has a new pet project – using the country’s bitcoin profits to help build an animal hospital....
Vitalik Buterin Says El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law is ‘Opposed to Crypto’s Idea of Freedom’
Vitalik Buterin has responded to a post regarding the Salvadorean Bitcoin rollout, calling it “contrary to the ideals of freedom”...
Bitcoin NFTs Are Growing Fast, STX Token Up 57% in 24 Hours
The native cryptocurrency of Bitcoin-based smart contract blockchain Stacks (STX) exploded in market value this past week, following the gro...
Legendary Billionaire Investor Finally Buys BTC, Admitting It Has ‘Crossed the Chasm to Mainstream’
“It’s more than an inflation hedge” – this is how Soros Fund CEO Dawn Fitzpatrick recently referred to bitcoin, adding that ...
Bitcoin Supply Squeeze Results in 5-Month High, Back to a $1 Trillion Asset
After bitcoin languished behind the alts for what might have felt like an eternity, the winds appear to have shifted favourably towards the ...
BTC-Backed Loans a Reality as Miner Obtains $100 Million Credit to Buy More Equipment
Marathon Digital Holdings, one of the largest publicly traded American Bitcoin mining companies, has obtained a US$100 million credit line f...
Q4 Looks Bullish for Bitcoin, Up 34% in a Week
Over the past week alone, bitcoin is up over 34 percent, surging past the US$55,000 mark. After a lacklustre September (jokingly referred to...
Is Remittance-Dependent Tonga the Next Nation to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender?
The small Polynesian island nation of Tonga will follow the example set last month by El Salvador in making bitcoin legal tender, if at leas...
New Zealand Launches First Bitcoin-Only Fund to Attract First-Time Investors
It’s often been said that technical complexities remain one of the main obstacles hampering widespread Bitcoin adoption. In an attempt...
Crypto Market Fear Subsides Following Fed Announcement that ‘It Will Not Ban Crypto’
During the US House Financial Services Committee meeting on September 30, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, confirmed that...