Tag: BTC
Officials selling passports for bitcoins got arrested in Bulgaria
Bulgarian law enforcement authorities arrested a group of officials on suspicion that they were selling passports to Ukrainians and Moldovans for bitcoins.
As reported by...
The former head of the FED named Bitcoin weaknesses
The former head of the US Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, thinks Bitcoin is a useless asset. In one of her last speeches, she named...
Updated firmware Antminer s9 from Bitmain activates AsicBoost
The Chinese mining giant Bitmain has introduced a new firmware for Antminer s9, which activates the AsicBoost cryptocurrency mining optimization algorithm. In addition, a...
World Bank: the potential of blockchain should be used
If the World Bank wants to keep up with the times, it needs to use the huge potential of the blockchain. This was stated...
Bitcoin watches
The manufacturer of luxury watches Hublot creates a limited collection of watches in honour of the ten-year anniversary of bitcoin, which will be celebrated...
Shares of criminal and legal use of bitcoin swapped places
According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration, in 2013, 90% of all bitcoin use cases were tied to criminal activity, whereas now 90% are...
The long-awaited release of Bitcoin Core 0.17.0
The developers of Bitcoin Core presented an important update of the most popular Bitcoin client.
The Bitcoin Core team of 135 participants led by Vladimir...
Bitcoin: positive attitude to the cryptocurrency grows on the CME
According to the COT (Commitments of Traders) reports provided by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) - for the week ending last Tuesday:
Large speculators...
Chainalysis: record quantities of bitcoin in active wallets
More and more of bitcoin is accumulating in the hands of active individual users, not companies or long-term investors. This is evidenced by the...
Forks, Forkomania, Forkology
Nowadays, when it seems that forkomania is finally over (hopefully), let's try to make some kind of a list out of this mess. But first,...
