Electric car maker Tesla may once again accept cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. The information was provided by the company in a report sent to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on earnings and movements for the third quarter of 2021. In the
Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel, said in a conference in Miami that he may have met Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto on the Caribbean island of Anguilla in February 2000. At the time, he was at the 4th International Conference on Financial Cryptography (CICF) with around 200
About $2 billion worth of Ethereum from 603,452 ETH has already been burned by the grid, fueling the furnace that brought the cryptocurrency to its latest all-time record. The network started burning ETH units after the introduction of the EIP-1559 protocol, effective on August 5th
In a message on its corporate blog, Microsoft claims that the group of ‘hackers’ known as Nobelium and acting on behalf of the Russian state is “attacking organizations that are an integral part of the global information technology supply chain”. Microsoft recalled that Nobelium is
According to CoinTelegraph, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (CNDRM) is now seeking public opinion on the inclusion of crypto mining in its list of “phased-out” industries, after seeing that the ban helped the U.S. to become the world’s dominant crypto mining nation. The call
The president of the Federal Reserve (Fed), Jerome Powell, has said that the high inflation that has been registered in recent months in the United States will last longer than expected and will carry over until 2022, although he has also stressed that if the
The Houston Firefighters Relief and Retirement Fund (HFRRF) has announced the addition of Bitcoin (BTC) to its portfolio. The addition was announced on Thursday (21), according to an article on the Business Insider portal. As the name implies, the HFRRF is responsible for managing the
Twitter shared the results of its study on the political leanings of its algorithm, indicating that it tends to amplify “political right” content. The investigation started in April and had as a sample seven countries, with the study verifying this political inclination in six of
A report released by the Biden administration this week warns that digital assets such as cryptocurrencies pose a risk to the US sanctions program. “Technological innovations such as digital currencies, alternative payment platforms, and new ways of hiding cross-border transactions all potentially reduce the efficacy
Bitcoin has broken yet another barrier between the traditional financial system and the digital world of cryptocurrencies. In Spain, traditional banks can now offer buying and selling Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies to their customers. The release was given through a publication by the Spanish Central Bank