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Cryptocurrency is digital money that isn't managed by a central system, like a government. Instead, it's based on blockchain technology, with bitcoin being the most popular one. As digital money...

Blockstream announced it has partnered with Jack Dorsey's Block (formerly Square) and Elon Musk's Tesla to build an open-source, solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility in Texas. See: The Best and Worst...

Elon Musk is quite vocal about cryptocurrencies during events and especially on Twitter. Since he has invested heavily in crypto and is one of the wealthiest people alive, his views seem to drive the...

The tax filing deadline -- April 18 -- is looming, but many crypto investors seem to be ill-prepared to file taxes on their earnings, according to a new survey. This knowledge gap can lead to...

Crypto is keeping lawmakers busy on both sides of the Atlantic.They really should be working together – and, for that matter, with other legislators around the world. When you’re dealing with a technology that pays scant regard for borders, a more borderless approach

There seem to be several camps of thought when it comes to investing in cryptocurrencies. The largest camp includes investment firms and investors who add certain “safer” cryptocurrencies to their portfolios after expending a minimal level of due diligence. For them,

Many people believe that crypto will increase access to financial services for underbanked communities.These crypto proponents say that the abundance of mobile devices will allow people to skip banks altogether and to use crypto instead. More than five billion people in the world

He might now be a billionaire but Samuel Bankman-Fried still has that wild puff of hair. It’s hair that screams “just rolled out of bed.” Or a beanbag chair. “I’m up to something like 50%, in terms of sleeping on beds,” Bankman-Fried tells Coin

She’s been a model, actress, muse and member of the “Fab Eight,” the musicians and wives or girlfriends of The Beatles. Her miniskirts inspired revolutions, and her soft eyes a ballad Frank Sinatra once called “the greatest love song of the past 50 years.&

There is a relationship between the price of Bitcoin and the amount of energy being used to mine it. But it’s a lot like the chicken and egg problem. Does a higher Bitcoin price prompt more miners to join the network?

In 2021, Venture Capital (VC) firms invested a staggering $33 billion in crypto and blockchain startups, a significant increase from the mere $3.1 billion invested in 2020.

Financial advisors may soon not only get the regulatory clarity they have asked for about cryptocurrencies and digital asset investing – they may also have a timeline for when it will happen.Last month, U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order, calling for a coord

Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies have addressed the ‘trust question’ head-on and provided the much-needed alternative. As the technology got more innovative and sophisticated, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) emerged as a strong challenger to Centralized Finance (CeFi).

The Republican U.S. senator from holds plenty of bitcoin (BTC) and may be the crypto industry’s most prominent advocate in Congress. Here’s what she’s thinking for 2022.The lawmaker has spoken at length about lots of issues on the Senate floor during her first y

The video game industry has been upended this year by the massive success of an open-world role playing game called Elden Ring. The game sold 12 million copies in its first two weeks, numbers Mark Serrels at CNET described as “ludicrous.” The sales are on pace with th

From April 6 to April 9, 2022, Miami played host to a groundbreaking conference: Bitcoin 2022 united industry leaders and political visionaries to elucidate a bright future for the world’s first and most prominent cryptocurrency and help push the economic paradigm it contains. 

Ethereum supporters have some reason to celebrate this week.After yet another delay, the Ethereum network took a step closer to “the Merge” with its first Ethereum mainnet “shadow fork” – a successful test run of the network’s eventual transiti

Imagine a day when, despite being thousands of miles apart, you and your grandchildren can put on visorlike headsets and “walk” together through a digital version of the Smithsonian, Times Square or even your local shopping mall. You’ll be able to watch movies

It’s not that the economy is going through a wringer it hasn’t been through before, but it is still a period of rapid change. Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced consumer prices rose 8.5% for the 12 months that ended in March – the fastest inflation

Clinique had a problem. The brand wanted to “enter the metaverse,” but it didn’t want to do so in a way that was cringey. So, it called a woman named Cathy Hackl: the “Godmother of the Metaverse.”Her credentials? Hackl, the “chief metaverse off