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Russian lawmakers have proposed new laws that seek to ban the use of bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies in the country, local media reported.According to draft bills submitted by a group of deputies to the Russian parliament recently, individuals may face up to seven years in prison and fines
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News 'Diet'Laszlo Hanyecz has the honor of conducting the first commercial Bitcoin transaction: trading 10,000 bitcoin for about $30 worth of pizza. Ten years later, those bitcoin would be worth $91 million. He apparently has no regrets. “It was a really interesting system but nobody’s using it,” Hanyecz said. “If nobody’s
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If you owned a share of an experimental technology, how much of it would you give up to help that technology grow? Startup founders do this calculus whenever they raise capital. Ten years ago today, a developer named Laszlo Hanyecz did it with bitcoin. Hanyecz is known as the first person
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Positive investor sentiment about bitcoin (BTC) on Twitter has reached record levels – its highest in three years – triggered by the cryptocurrency’s supply cut earlier this month, data shows.According to crypto data company The Tie, the 30-day average daily sentiment score is at an all-time high since 2017.The
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Though at the time of writing BTC is trading below $10,000, Robert Kiyosaki believes that Bitcoin price could reach $75,000 within three years.Robert Kiyosaki is once again on the bullish path for Bitcoin. The “Rich Dad Poor Dad” author has been on the Bitcoin (BTC) price upside on twitter. Robert
Read MoreMajor crypto exchange, Binance, now has over 1,000 employees, showing tremendous company growth since its 2017 start."When Binance first started in 2017, there were under 50 people," Binance co-founder, Yi He, told Cointelegraph on April 23. "We have more than 1,000 employees today (currently at 1,002 and counting; we are
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Global markets had a historical day on Monday, as the price of oil dropped below zero and closed the day at -$36 per barrel of crude. The oil crash below zero has never happened in anyone’s lifetime and economists worldwide are uncertain about the future of the world’s financial system
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Mining Bitcoin (BTC) has often been criticised for its exorbitant power usage, but podcaster Marty Bent has embraced a solution that he says actually reduces waste in the oil and gas (O&G) sector.In an April 15 blog post, Bent revealed that since last year he had been mining Bitcoin
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Cybersecurity firm, Guardicore Labs, revealed the identification of a malicious crypto-mining botnet that has been operating for nearly two years on April 1.The threat actor, dubbed ‘Vollgar’ based on its mining of the little-known altcoin, Vollar (VSD), targets Windows machines running MS-SQL servers — of which Guardicore estimates there
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Since NewsBTC’s last market update, Bitcoin has continued to rip higher, recently hitting $6,750. With this, the cryptocurrency is up nearly 9% from the daily lows around $6,200, and up over 16% from the weekend lows at $5,800.Although not on the same magnitude, many have likened Bitcoin’s recent price action
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