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The mining difficulty of BTC reached a new high of 25.05 trillion, which means about a 21.53% increase. As it is known mining is the process of new bitcoins adding the circulation and the difficulty indicates how complicated it is to mine a block or how much calculational effort it requires. ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold a significant part of his meme coins directing the sum to different contribution funds. Among his purchases was selling Shiba Inu tokens (SHIBs) worth $1.2 B and sending the money to a charity fund for India's current fight to overcome COVID. When Shiba...

Back in 2014, the Hungarian Central Bank urged citizens not to invest in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. According to the regulator, investing in digital assets is an extremely risky venture. BTC and other virtual coins show a wide range of price fluctuations, and the investor risks losing all...

Today, May 13, Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed that the company is no longer allowing payments in Bitcoin. In the tweet posted by Musk, he mentioned that the reason is BTC's using a large amount of energy which is bad for the surroundings. When the coin starts using more environment-friendly energy,...

Data analysis software developer Palantir Technologies is considering investing in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Writes about this CNBC concerning a statement for investors. The company announced financial results for the first quarter of 2021 and noted that digital assets are "clearly...

For the first time since 2017, the Coinbase app ranked #1 on the US App Store. Coinbase was named one of the ten most popular free apps on the App Store on the day of the Bitcoin exchange listing on the Nasdaq, April 14. As a reminder, Coinbase received more than 2,000 government requests in six...

American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller finds that cryptocurrencies can solve problems created by the Fed’s controversial policy at the time of the global pandemic. He noted that the dollar is at the risk to lose its global reserve currency position. The dominance...

NiiFi, based on the second level Ethereum solution Nahmii 2.0, raised $ 3 million. The seed round of financing was led by the DARMA Capital fund launched by ex-ConsenSys employees. The round was also attended by A195 Capital, AU21 Capital, Blocksync Ventures, Lotus Capital, Matterblock, Moonwhale...

DeFi aggregator focused on yield farming, Yearn Finance launched a meme coin Woofy on May 11. Afterwards, the price of the protocol's native token YFI raised more than 43% setting a new all-time high of $90.786. Yearn.finance's developer with the nickname "banteg" posted about the token...

Popular electronic purchase firm eBay started allowing NFT trading on its platform thus becoming the first online shop to do so. eBay said it will provide the option of selling NFTs for collectibles like videoclips, pictures, or trading-cards. Senior VP and general manager of eBay's North American...

Multiple world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has announced the release of a collection of non-fungible tokens (NFT) ahead of the fight against blogger Logan Paul. “Right now my career is over, but my name will always live on because of what I have done, the legacy I left, and the mark I left...

Over the previous 7 days, the price of Ether saw over 31% increase. Today it set another all-time high surpassing $4360. The token's market dominance index is 19.84% and its market cap went up to $500 billion. That is larger than the market cap of Visa (480,90 B) and JP Morgan Chase (479.92 B). ...

The US National Football League (NFL) star Tom Brady changed his Twitter profile pic to one where he has laser eyes to support Bitcoin. Earlier rumors were spread that the player has invested in BTC. #NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/W1UQ4yoQHz— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) May 10, 2021...

The price of the token of the Casper Network blockchain platform (CSPR) reached $ 40 before the official start of sales in the secondary market and renewed its all-time high. The CSPR price has increased by 128,000% since the beginning of April, and by 171% over the last 24 hours. At the time of...

A man from the US state Tennessee, Nelson Repogle used BTC to order his wife's assassination. He contacted the hitman via a murder-for-hire online platform. Fortunately, the FBI succeeded to prevent the crime. The case was discovered by FBI Special Agent Clay Anderson. Repogle sent the hired...

The head of American entertainment company Live Nation, Michael Rapino, in the framework of the quarterly earnings report, spoke about plans to enter the market of NFT to perpetuate the "magic moments" of concerts. “We envision Live Nation with a marketplace and see some of the live...

A managing director at Goldman Sachs' London branch Aziz McMahon is said to quit the job after receiving huge profits from the Dogecoin investment. The institution later confirmed Aziz McMahon's quitting, but didn't talk about the reasons. According to staff members, it's true that Aziz McMahon...

Media magnate, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo of two of his goats on May 10. In the description, he said that the names of the goats are Max and Bitcoin. The post raised various discussions among the users. Many posted that it might mean that Zuckerberg supports BTC and or...