Bitcoin
BTC
, ethereum and other cryptocurrencies were revitalized by a shock XRP legal ruling last month—though the price rally has since lost momentum (despite a sudden China crypto flip).
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The bitcoin price has reclaimed $30,000 per bitcoin this week after dropping under the psychological level as hype arou...
Congressman French Hill (R-Ark) is vice chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and chairman of the inaugural House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Inclusion and Technology, where he has held multiple hearings on issues such as stablecoins and overall crypto market structure. He’s also one of the sponsors for the recently-introduced Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act (FIT for th...
Bitcoin (BTC) has had its moon landing already. It is stuck in orbit now; prove me wrong.
Maybe Goldman Sachs was right when they said in 2022 that BTC was like gold, a hedge against inflation and the markets. Did bitcoin ‘go moon’ already, when it was over $60,000 and super bulls were predicting $100,000 (they still are; they can’t help themselves)? Bitcoin
BTC
looks more like a tech stock than a risky cryptocurrency investment. No one i...
Bitcoiners have always suffered from a big dose of hubris and boosterism. As far as so called bitcoin-maxis are concerned, bitcoin (BTC) is perfection in code. For them nothing should be changed and BTC is designed to be hard to be subverted and the protocol ensures that it is very difficult to change anything without overwhelming support. You can fork bitcoin, take the code and make your own variant, as much as you like, but after the fork is...
“If we can get these people beyond survival mode, then they won’t have to choose between renting a child out for the night and feeding the others,” Richard Swisher, Motiv President told me in an interview. He offered that bitcoin is helping do just that.
Motiv is a nonprofit working to empower communities and reduce dependencies with bitcoin. Their goal is to drive economic independence in underserved communities. In doing so, Swisher says ...
Bitcoin
BTC
and the wider crypto market—including ethereum and XRP
XRP
—have lost momentum after charging into 2023 (though billionaire Warren Buffett is still quietly getting richer off bitcoin).
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The bitcoin price has lost 15% since peaking at almost $32,00...
It's the kind of courtroom showdown playwrights dream about: a “boy genius” accused of masterminding a multibillion-dollar scam, a cadre of former associates revealing jaw-dropping secrets and government prosecutors aiming for a high-profile victory.
In Act I, played out over the past three weeks, Sam Bankman-Fried's sometimes friends and colleagues have offered damning testimony about his role in the unraveling of the FTX crypto empire, say...
As 2023 enters the last stretch crypto investors are facing a whirlwind of activity that can be a combination of exciting, exhausting, and financially important. The FTX trial was a publicity packed event, featuring testimony from virtually all of the highest ranking employees, Samuel Bankman-Fried himself, and multiple expert witnesses. Rehashing the spectacular collapse of FTX as well as the multiple allegations leveled against Bankman-Frie...
Nvidia reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates, driving its stock up more than 25% in extended trading. The company said it is boosting supply to meet surging demand for its chips, used to power artificial intelligence services such as ChatGPT.
The chipmaker is at the center of AI boom thanks to its high-powered graphics cards and software. The stock has more than doubled this year while rival Advanced Micro Devices...
Video game payment firm Zebedee, which has more than a million bitcoin wallets and is backed by nearly $50 million venture capital, today moved its main ZBD application to Nostr, the rapidly growing decentralized competitor to Twitter. Instead of liking content like on Twitter and Facebook, users of social networks built on the Nostr protocol have sent each other 895,000 “zaps,” or tiny amounts of bitcoin worth $3.6 million.
The move, which ...
