The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…
How the Decentralized Web Transfers Wealth From Corporations…
The internet of today is broken. We can use the internet, but we don’t own anything we do. Companies control our domain names, the content we host on web servers and our access to the…
East Asia Dominates World’s Onchain Crypto Activity, Europe…
Crypto activity continues to flourish worldwide, according to a new cryptocurrency adoption index published by the blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis. The researchers compile onchain digital currency retail value transferred, onchain crypto deposits, peer-to-peer exchange volume,…
BurgerSwap frying high — Binance offers up the…
The food-related craze for yield farming is showing no sign of abating. So far this year, the crypto space has been treated to Yam, Shrimp, Spaghetti, Cream, and of course, the most-talked-about dish of recent…
Bitcoin’s 7.5% Plunge Open Doorways to $10,500, Per…
Bitcoin plunged lower on Wednesday, continuing its correcting downtrend after hitting a near two-week high at $12,086 earlier this week. The benchmark cryptocurrency fell by up to 6.41 percent to $11,160. Its move downhill extended…
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dips to $11.1K; Ether Mining…
Bitcoin is looking bearish while Ethereum miners are reaping more fee revenue than ever before. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,298 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 3.8% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s…
Bitcoin Price Seals Best Weekly Close in 2.5…
Bitcoin (BTC) greets another week with a push to $12,000 and its highest weekly close since after it hit $20,000 — will it return? Cointelegraph takes a look at five things that stand to impact…
Bitcoin Price Hits New All-Time High Against Turkish…
A famous Bitcoin skeptic has called for a gold-backed currency to save Turkey as its national fiat currency collapses. In a tweet on Monday, John Hopkins professor Steve Hanke argued that hard money was now…
Power Plants in Iran Now Authorized to Mine…
Power plants in Iran are allowed to mine cryptocurrencies, the deputy head of the country’s Power Generation, Distribution, and Transmission Company (Tavanir) has reportedly confirmed. Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, deputy head of Tavanir, explained that entities…
Power Plants in Iran Are Authorized to Mine…
Power plants in Iran are allowed to mine cryptocurrencies, the deputy head of the country’s Power Generation, Distribution, and Transmission Company (Tavanir) has reportedly confirmed. Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, deputy head of Tavanir, explained that entities…
Former Nissan Boss Paid $500k in Crypto to…
The son of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn made $500k in crypto payments to help secure the escape of his father from Japanese authorities. The case goes back as far as November 2018, when police…
Christophe Cieters: Monopoly Money
As money developed and people opted to place it in secured storage, banks started issuing banknotes which represented a client’s deposit at the bank and the promise to redeem each note for the amount of…
Unicef Funding Startups With Cryptocurrency for Covid-19 Relief
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has announced its largest cryptocurrency investment funding of startups. Eight companies in seven countries will use Unicef’s crypto fund to develop prototypes, pilot, or scale their technologies. Several of…
US Law Enforcement Promises $5M for the Capture…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), has put out a bounty for $5 million for the arrest and conviction of Venezuela’s superintendent of cryptocurrency. Joselit de la Trinidad Ramirez Camacho…
Review: Cointelegraph-Inspired Climate Change Art Exhibition
Selva Ozelli is an international tax attorney and regular contributor to Cointelegraph. She gives her expert opinion on a range of subjects, including how cryptocurrency and blockchain technology can both positively and negatively impact climate…
BTSE Adds Turkish BiLira Stablecoin Amid Lira Struggles
BTSE, a financial technology exchange, announced this Monday that it has added the digital Lira, the Turkish BiLira (TRYB), at a time when Turkey’s economy is struggling, sending its currency to its lowest level against…
2 Days After the Bitcoin Halving: Network ‘Remains…
On May 11, 2020, the Bitcoin network completed it’s third block reward halving and the network seems to be chugging along just fine. However, it may take a while longer to see the halving’s effect…
Iran to Cut 4 Zeros From Its Currency…
Iranian lawmakers have reportedly approved a plan to slash four zeros from the national currency, the rial, which has been falling sharply in value amid chronic inflation and the U.S. sanctions. The official currency will…
The Man Who Forecast a Currency Cold War
Many of the impacts of COVID-19 are easy to grasp. Every day we see the gutting news: the rising body count, the millions of unemployed, the makeshift morgues in public parks. We grieve for those…
Iran Licenses $7.3 Million Bitcoin Mining Enterprise, Move…
Iran has issued a bitcoin mining license to Iminer, a Turkish-based company. Iminer will operate up to 6,000 rigs, with a computing power of 96,000 terahash per second (TH/s) in total. According to media reports,…
Bitcoin in Emerging Markets: The Middle East
In advance of her “Crypto Across Emerging Markets” panel at Consensus: Distributed, Leigh Cuen is writing a three-part column on how cryptocurrencies are used in the developing world. In this first part of the series,…