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Billionaire property tycoon Nick Candy is selling his two-story penthouse overlooking Hyde Park for a cool £175mn (US$240mn). The kicker is, he’s open to accepting Bitcoin. Despite BTC cracking $64k this week to post a new all-time high, debate on cryptocurrencies’ legitimacy continues to rage. However, Candy’s willingness to take Bitcoin
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Bitcoin prices dropped lost 3.12 percent in early trading Monday, while the rest of the crypto market followed suit, turning lower aggressively after their record-setting bull runs at the start of this week. Bitcoin wobbles around $56,000. Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com At first, it appeared like a regular profit-taking exercise among western
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Bitcoin prices were relatively flat ahead of the New York opening bell Tuesday as traders waited for the Federal Reserve officials’ gathering for a two-day policy meeting. The flagship cryptocurrency slumped 0.12 percent to $555,88.07 as of 1330 GMT. Earlier during the Asia-Pacific session, it was trading for as low as
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Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Thursday it has put plans to regulate cryptocurrencies on hold in light of the central bank’s decision to ban them, according to a report by the Guardian Nigeria.The regulatory body released a statement officially confirming any plans to regulate the cryptocurrencies are now
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All three futures – Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq 100 – opened lower today on Tuesday. The European market also remained under pressure on rising COVID-19 cases.Despite the positive news of the vaccine, the fast surge in fresh COVID-19 cases in the US has put pressure on the market
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Blockchain Bites is back – we hope you enjoyed the holiday pause. Now for the news: Another major hedge fund may allocate to bitcoin. Kaspersky sees cybercrime on the rise for 2021. And anonymous developers have forked a seemingly dead project to launch DeFi’s latest stablecoin.And, perhaps most notably, bitcoin
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Major bitcoin miners are signaling their support for the network’s Taproot upgrade. Institutional buyers are loading up on BTC puts, Deribit analysts say. Goldman Sachs thinks the “digital yuan” could be in a billion hands in a decade. Top shelfBlackRock SquawksA top BlackRock executive, in charge of where the world’s largest
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When Bitcoin SV (BSV) forked from Bitcoin Cash, its mandate to create a faster, payments-focused blockchain required gutting some of Bitcoin’s key technical features. In doing so, it gutted some of Bitcoin’s key features; now, it’s worse off for it.One of these features, the so-called pay-to-script hash (P2SH) function, allows a
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Jack Dorsey's payments company announced Thursday it has purchased 4,709 bitcoins in a strategic investment. Source
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EA yearly soccer sim FIFA 21 is set to release on Oct. 9.To commemorate the launch, EA’s is hosting the FIFA Celebration.It promises 22 hours of virtual performances from over 40 artists, giveaways, and more FIFA-themed fun.With the full worldwide release of FIFA 21 a little over a week away,
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