Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.

Fiscal Stability Replaces Celebrity Pitchmen as Crypto Ad Spend Comes Back to Earth
Fiscal Stability Replaces Celebrity Pitchmen as Crypto Ad Spend Comes Back to Earth
August 17, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Having overspent dramatically on celebrity spokespeople and high-profile stadium naming deals just as the crypto winter was starting to blow across the industry, crypto exchanges...

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Today in Crypto: EU Eyes Capping Banks’ Crypto Holdings; Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Restructures; JPMorgan Analyst: Coinbase to Benefit From Ethereum Merge
Today in Crypto: EU Eyes Capping Banks’ Crypto Holdings; Bitcoin Miner Stronghold Restructures; JPMorgan Analyst:...
August 17, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

EU banks exposed to cryptocurrencies could see caps and big capital requirements from a new financial services law as lawmakers look to curb risk from...

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Today in Crypto: Crypto Nomads Move Back to Big Cities; Court OKs IRS Tax Probe of Dealer SFOX
Today in Crypto: Crypto Nomads Move Back to Big Cities; Court OKs IRS Tax Probe...
August 16, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

As the pandemic wanes, Bloomberg reported that crypto nomads are returning to big cities like New York and London. Crypto workers have spent the last...

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Today in Crypto: Crypto Rally Slows After Bump Over Ethereum Upgrade; BitGo Eyes Legal Action Over Galaxy Digital Deal
Today in Crypto: Crypto Rally Slows After Bump Over Ethereum Upgrade; BitGo Eyes Legal Action...
August 15, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency values remained unchanged with the cooling of a rally in bitcoin and ether, Bloomberg wrote Monday (Aug. 15). Bitcoin was down less than 1%...

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El Salvador Weekly: Four Questions for President Bukele on ‘Doubt’ Surrounding Bitcoin
El Salvador Weekly: Four Questions for President Bukele on ‘Doubt’ Surrounding Bitcoin
August 15, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele added his voice to the bragging ministers after the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s (WTO) Aug. 1 World Tourism Barometer report...

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Today in Crypto: Binance Recovers $450K Stolen From Curve.Finance; Buterin Estimates Sept. 15 for Ethereum Merge
Today in Crypto: Binance Recovers $450K Stolen From Curve.Finance; Buterin Estimates Sept. 15 for Ethereum...
August 14, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

India’s Enforcement Directorate, which works on probing financial crimes, announced Friday (Aug. 12) that it has frozen assets worth around 3.7 billion rupees ($46.4 million)...

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PYMNTS Cryptocurrency Glossary: Decentralized Finance or DeFi
PYMNTS Cryptocurrency Glossary: Decentralized Finance or DeFi
August 10, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a confusing business with a language all its own, in part because it is a genuinely new way of doing business and also...

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SEC, CFTC Weigh New Hedge Fund Crypto Reporting Rules
SEC, CFTC Weigh New Hedge Fund Crypto Reporting Rules
August 10, 2022  |  Regulation

Federal regulators are set to issue a proposal that would — among other things — require large hedge funds to reveal their cryptocurrency exposure. The...

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Today in Crypto: Germany’s Exchange Nuri Files for Insolvency; Reserve Bank of Australia Explores CBDC Use Cases
Today in Crypto: Germany’s Exchange Nuri Files for Insolvency; Reserve Bank of Australia Explores CBDC...
August 09, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Jenny Johnson, CEO of money management giant Franklin Templeton, said in a Bloomberg interview that bitcoin is “the greatest distraction from the greatest disruption I...

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