Tech giant Intel looks set to finally get into the Bitcoin mining hardware business, but not with its new GPUs. According to the news, it will be through a chip, called “Bonanza Mine”. The presentation to the public will be on February 20 at the
The use of bitcoin as a digital currency for payments has dropped significantly, according to figures stemming from Bitpay, a leading cryptocurrency payment processor. While most purchases were made with bitcoin in 2020, that dominance has waned, making room for other tokens and coins such
The bet made on bitcoin (BTC) by Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, is costing the country dearly, according to calculations made by Bloomberg. Based on Bukele’s frequent announcements on Twitter about acquiring bitcoin alone, the Salvadoran president bought 1,391 BTC. These acquisitions, according to
While sardines despaired as they saw bitcoin plummeting below $40,000 earlier in the week, whales went to exchanges to buy the market-leading cryptocurrency’s slump. Charts from blockchain data firm CryptoQuant show that a total of 29,371 BTC left cryptocurrency exchanges on Tuesday (11), the largest
Someone very lucky managed to get ahead of the big mining companies on Tuesday (11) and added — single-handedly — an entire block to the bitcoin blockchain. With that, he got the reward of 6.25 BTC, about $273 thousand at the current exchange rate. What
Airbnb may soon accept payments with Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies after all, the option to pay with cryptocurrencies is what many Airbnb customers want to see established in 2022 after CEO Brian Chesky asked his Twitter followers in what the accommodation app should focus this
One of the largest banks in the world, Goldman Sachs estimates that Bitcoin may continue to take a part of the gold as a reserve of value asset and thus reach $100,000 a unit. According to a Bloomberg report, the bank estimates that the market
On January 3, 2009 the Bitcoin blockchain saw its ‘genesis block‘ with a protest message: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on the brink of a second bank bailout”. It was the headline of an article in The Times newspaper, which reported that the government was considering
With the end of 2021, Reddit shared that cryptocurrencies were the most talked about topic of the year, dethroning games, sports and marriages, in that order. The word “crypto” has been used over 6.6 million times on the site. But perhaps the biggest surprise is
MicroStrategy, an American software company listed on Nasdaq, announced on Thursday (30) that it increased its stock of bitcoin with acquisitions that totaled $94.2 million in this month of December. The first purchase was made on the 9th and the last on Wednesday (29th), according