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.

Portugal Allows Real Estate Buyers to Pay With Bitcoin
Portugal Allows Real Estate Buyers to Pay With Bitcoin
May 09, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Portugal recently relaxed its laws toward cryptocurrencies and is now promoting payments with tokens in all sorts of circumstances — including real estate purchases, according...

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El Salvador Weekly: Bitcoin Experiment Increasingly Unpopular with Bond Market, US Congress and Salvadorans
El Salvador Weekly: Bitcoin Experiment Increasingly Unpopular with Bond Market, US Congress and Salvadorans
May 06, 2022  |  Bitcoin

The bitcoin-boosting president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has bet the house on the first cryptocurrency. First by making it legal tender and then staking...

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More Consumers Buying Crypto and Want More Ways to Spend It
More Consumers Buying Crypto and Want More Ways to Spend It
May 04, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

If you want insight into how the cryptocurrency business as a whole is doing these days, look at how people are using it. “The more...

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Emerging Markets See Stablecoins as Viable Alternative to Bitcoin
Emerging Markets See Stablecoins as Viable Alternative to Bitcoin
May 04, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Shortly after legalizing the use of cryptocurrency, the Central African Republic (CAR) recently became the second country in the world, after El Salvador, to adopt...

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Today in Crypto: 2 Argentinian Banks Let Customers Buy Crypto; Coinbase CEO Anticipates A Billion Crypto Users in 10 Years
Today in Crypto: 2 Argentinian Banks Let Customers Buy Crypto; Coinbase CEO Anticipates A Billion...
May 03, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Two Argentinian banks will be the first in their country to allow the use of cryptocurrency, with Banco Galicia, the biggest private bank there, and...

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News of Bitcoin ATMs’ Decline Greatly Exaggerated
News of Bitcoin ATMs’ Decline Greatly Exaggerated
May 03, 2022  |  Bitcoin

If you read the crypto press, you’ll find story after story this week about how the number of new bitcoin ATMs crashed this year, with...

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1 in 5 US Consumers Have Purchased Bitcoin
1 in 5 US Consumers Have Purchased Bitcoin
May 03, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Three cryptocurrencies are the ones that the greatest shares of consumers currently own, have ever owned and are aware of. Making the top 3 in...

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Buffett: Crypto Has ‘a Magic to It,’ but He Wouldn’t Buy It All for $25
Buffett: Crypto Has ‘a Magic to It,’ but He Wouldn’t Buy It All for $25
May 02, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

There will be no Berkshire Coin cryptocurrency, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett said at the company’s annual shareholder meeting on April 30, nor will there...

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El Salvador’s Bitcoin-As-Currency Experiment Is Costly And Failing
El Salvador’s Bitcoin-As-Currency Experiment Is Costly And Failing
May 02, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Eight months after its September rollout, it’s become evident that El Salvador’s much-hyped experiment with making bitcoin a legal tender has been a failure so...

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