Tesla accepts Bitcoin as a means of payment
After stunning the market earlier this year with a bold bet on Bitcoin, Tesla Inc. has now started accepting Bitcoin (the world’s largest electronic currency) as a means of payment…
Fidelity and Goldman Sachs File for US Bitcoin ETF
Fidelity Investments and Goldman Sachs have filed applications to list a Bitcoin ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These would be the first Bitcoin ETFs in the…
What are Stablecoins?
Most Stablecoins are pegged to the US dollar. They close the gap between the advantages of Cryptocurrencies and the more stable fiat currencies. The first and largest of these is…
Why CBDCs aren’t a threat to Bitcoin
Central banks are concerned that they may lose the race for digital currencies to a private digital currency like Bitcoin (BTC). But Bitcoin and CBDCs are very different, with the…
Why the DeFi and ICO hype aren’t the same
2017 feels like it happened a decade ago for most people, but many of people still have vivid memories of it, especially those who invested actively in the past bull…
Bitcoin Suisse withdraws FINMA application for Banking License
Since the summer of 2019, crypto company Bitcoin Suisse has been waiting for its Swiss banking license. However, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has classified the application as…
Baseball Team Accepting Bitcoin for Purchases
The Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball (MLB) team is now accepting payments of Bitcoin (BTC) for home-game luxury suites. This follows a larger trend of cryptocurrency and NFT adoption in…
NFT artist reveals new project
Conceptual artist and crypto-art/NFT pioneer Kevin Abosch made headlines across the globe in 2018 with his groundbreaking work IAMACOIN as the first person to tokenize himself in the form of…
Digital NFT artwork sold for $69 million
For the first time, a digital artwork in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) was sold at a major auction house. The price of the painting by Mike Winkelmann…
Over 4 Million Bitcoin Lost Forever
Non-hackable cryptocurrency storage is only useful while you’re alive. Billions of US dollars in Bitcoin (BTC) are lost forever, in part, because heirs can’t get their hands on the inheritance.…