Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
On June 21, the wealth manager Vaneck filed a prospectus to launch what it calls a Bitcoin Strategy Fund. The prospectus filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) explains the fund will procure bitcoin exchange-traded products and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Jaime Guevara, a Salvadoran representative, presented a lawsuit against the recently approved bitcoin tender law today. Guevara alleges the law is unconstitutional and brings a series of changes that will cause problems for Salvadorans. Some people s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has issued a call for EU institutions to uphold privacy when designing a digital version of the euro. The agency is ready to provide advice on data protection matters surrounding the project. Meanwhile, an EC...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
While on the surface it seems officials from five provinces in China have been cracking down on bitcoin miners, no one is quite sure how much hashrate is moving, which pools are affected, or where these miners will end up. A number of mining pools ha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Iranian police have reportedly seized 7,000 bitcoin mining machines operating illegally in the country. The machines were found in an abandoned factory west of the capital.
7,000 cryptocurrency mining machines have been seized by Iranian authorities...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
The price of bitcoin dropped to a new low in 2021, hitting $28,600 per unit Tuesday morning (EST). BTC has shed more than 10% in value over the last 24 hours and its market capitalization is now less than $600 billion.
Bitcoin Price Plunges Below $29...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Shenzhen-based Bit Mining has started shipping bitcoin mining machines to Kazakhstan as the Chinese government cracks down on bitcoin mining operations in the country.
Bit Mining Ltd., a mining company based in Shenzhen, announced Monday that &ldquo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Analysts at Hedgeye Risk Management, an investment research and financial media company based in Stamford, Connecticut, have analyzed the Bitcoin stock-to-flow argument. This framework suggests Bitcoin’s price potentially reaching $1 million by...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Portugal now has two approved cryptocurrency exchanges. The country’s central bank, the Banco de Portugal, has licensed Mind the Coin and Criptoloja.
In Portugal, the central bank is responsible for registering entities that intend to act as v...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
Sotheby’s, the world’s largest auction house, is auctioning a rare, 101.38-carat flawless diamond estimated to be worth $15 million, and cryptocurrencies are accepted.
Biggest Auction House Accepts Cryptocurrencies
Sotheby’s announc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
President Nicolas Maduro stated that Venezuela was a pioneer in cryptocurrency adoption in Latam in an interview with Bloomberg last week. Venezuela is still one of the first cryptocurrency volume movers in South America. However, the petro token, it...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
According to a blog post on the Ethereum Foundation’s website, three Ethereum testnets leveraging the London hard fork will go live during the next few weeks. Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko explained last Friday that the “upgrade will...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 3 years ago
David Marcus, head of Facebook Financial (F2) who is in charge of crypto project Diem, formerly Libra, believes that the Chinese government cracking down on bitcoin mining is “a great development” for the cryptocurrency. Many people in th...