Enlarge / Promotional image of Crypto on Venmo. Venmo The PayPal-owned Venmo service will let users buy, sell, and hold bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies within the Venmo app, the company announced…
Continue readingHackers linked with the North Korean government applied the web skimming technique to steal cryptocurrency in a previously undocumented campaign that started early last year, researchers say. The attacks compromised…
Continue readingThis article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. I’ll be honest with you. I’m still not sure that cryptocurrencies like…
Continue readingCoinbase, a platform for buying and selling cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, will be the first major cryptocurrency company to go public in the United States. It’s a clear sign that crypto…
Continue readingHuman transactions have come far since the Stone Age. The commodity trading of our ancestors eventually gave way to money, which in the past few thousand years has cycled through…
Continue readingBy Donna Lu Mining bitcoin requires a lot of computer power Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images The carbon emissions associated with mining bitcoin have accelerated rapidly in China, and they…
Continue readingBitcoin is in the middle of its fourth major price surge of 2021 and is close to hitting a new all-time high, with some analysts predicting that this rally could…
Continue readingFacepalm: Apple’s App Store has a better reputation than Google Play when it comes to keeping scam applications off the service, but it does happen, and they can con victims…
Continue readingElon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla who recently added “Technoking” to his title, said on Wednesday that the company would accept Bitcoin as payment for cars in the United…
Continue readingWTF?! It’s no secret that one of the reasons why we can’t buy a graphics card right now—outside of auction sites—is demand from cryptominers. But there is another way to…
Continue readingThe cryptocurrency market has been abuzz as Bitcoin gains popularity with investors, reaching an all-time high of over $60,000 apiece in March. In a commentary published on March 10, 2021,…
Continue readingThe early 2000s were not a good time for technology. After entering the new millennium amid the impotent panic of the Y2K bug, it wasn’t long before the Dotcom Bubble…
Continue readingThe founder of the world’s largest hedge fund has warned that bitcoin could be “outlawed” in the US, despite experts warning that its decentralised network makes a ban virtually impossible…
Continue readingThe next major bitcoin price crash will wipe up to 90 per cent from its value and cause it to stagnate in a years-long “crypto winter”, a market expert has…
Continue readingGetty Images | Chesnot Tesla has begun accepting bitcoin as payment from car buyers in the continental US, and CEO Elon Musk said the company plans to expand the new…
Continue readingEditor’s take: Perhaps the most interesting admission of all is that Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained in that form factor. Pretty much every other major company I can…
Continue readingElon Musk has announced that customers will be able to purchase a Tesla car using bitcoin. In a series of tweets, the Tesla boss revealed that the electric car maker…
Continue readingAs Tesla CEO Elon Musk previously hinted, following a request for this as well as a $1.5 billion Tesla investment in bitcoin, you can now buy a Tesla using bitcoin…
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