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Bitcoin Crosses One Billion Transactions Milestone First Time Since Its Inception in 2009
Bitcoin took fifteen years to hit a billion transactions on May 5 at block number 842,241. As of Tuesday, May 7, the total number of BTC transactions stand at 1,000,701,505.
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El Salvador’s Official Crypto Wallet Chivo Processed $52 Million in Remittances So Far in 2022
So far in 2022, El Salvador’s official Bitcoin wallet, called Chivo processed $52 million (roughly Rs. 410 crore) in these remittances. In the first five months of this year, the remittance deposit on Chivo rose by 3.9 percent, amounting to $118 million (roughly Rs. 933 crore). Chivo does not deduct any commission on facilitating transactions fro...
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AMC Theatres Record 35 Percent Crypto Payments in First Quarter of 2022
Crypto payments accounted for 35 percent of AMC Theatres’ total online transactions in Q1 2022. The company CEO Adam Aron called the development ‘impressive’. The company will be integrating NFT projects with its offerings, as per its plans for this year.
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Goldman Sachs Issues First Bitcoin-Backed Loan in History, Here’s What We Know
Goldman Sachs has issued its first loan, collaterised by Bitcoin. The details of the borrower involved in this transaction remains undisclosed. A Bitcoin-backed loan allows the asset holder to borrow fiat currency like Rupees or Dollars against their Bitcoin holdings. The bank had begun researching on Bitcoin-backed loans around December last year.
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Cryptocurrency Prices Tumble, Exchange Trading Falters as Snags Crop Up; Bitcoin Sees Over 17 Percent Dip
Cryptocurrency prices plunged and crypto trading was delayed on Tuesday, a day in which El Salvador ran into snags as the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
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Bitcoin’s 60 Percent Rally From July Lows May Be Running Out of Steam
Bitcoin’s sudden burst above the $50,000 (roughly Rs. 37.1 crores) level didn’t last long and chart patterns signal its rally since July is at risk of fading.
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Bitcoin Was First Used To Buy Pizza. Other Interesting Tidbits
A Florida resident traded his Bitcoins to get two pizzas in 2010. The transaction is known as the first official use of Bitcoin for a commercial transaction with an actual company
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What Is Cryptocurrency Mining? How Can You Do It?
Although cryptocurrency is on the rise, this new form of money is not very well understood. What exactly is cryptocurrency, and how do people 'mine' it? In this explainer, we take a deep dive into one of the key facets of the blockchain based cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ether, and so on.
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Visa Says Spending on Crypto-Linked Cards Topped $1 Billion in First Half This Year
Visa said its customers spent more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,480 crores) on its crypto-linked cards in the first half of this year, as the payments processor takes steps to make crypto transactions smoother.
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CryptoPunk NFT Sells for $11.7 Million, First-Ever NFT Sold for $1.47 Million at Sotheby's Auction
The first non-fungible token (NFT) ever created was sold at auction for $1.47 million (roughly Rs. 10 crores), Sotheby's said, the latest sale in the technological revolution sweeping the art market.
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Cryptocurrency Transactions Banned by China in Financial, Payment Institutions
China has banned financial institutions and payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions and warned investors against speculative crypto trading.
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Bitcoin Jumps Above $1,000 For First Time In Three Years
Bitcoin is a web-based "cryptocurrency" that has no central authority, relying instead on thousands of computers across the world that validate transactions and add new bitcoins to the system.
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Bitcoin Crosses One Billion Transactions Milestone First Time Since Its Inception in 2009
Bitcoin took fifteen years to hit a billion transactions on May 5 at block number 842,241. As of Tuesday, May 7, the total number of BTC transactions stand at 1,000,701,505.
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El Salvador’s Official Crypto Wallet Chivo Processed $52 Million in Remittances So Far in 2022
So far in 2022, El Salvador’s official Bitcoin wallet, called Chivo processed $52 million (roughly Rs. 410 crore) in these remittances. In the first five months of this year, the remittance deposit on Chivo rose by 3.9 percent, amounting to $118 million (roughly Rs. 933 crore). Chivo does not deduct any commission on facilitating transactions fro...
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AMC Theatres Record 35 Percent Crypto Payments in First Quarter of 2022
Crypto payments accounted for 35 percent of AMC Theatres’ total online transactions in Q1 2022. The company CEO Adam Aron called the development ‘impressive’. The company will be integrating NFT projects with its offerings, as per its plans for this year.
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Goldman Sachs Issues First Bitcoin-Backed Loan in History, Here’s What We Know
Goldman Sachs has issued its first loan, collaterised by Bitcoin. The details of the borrower involved in this transaction remains undisclosed. A Bitcoin-backed loan allows the asset holder to borrow fiat currency like Rupees or Dollars against their Bitcoin holdings. The bank had begun researching on Bitcoin-backed loans around December last year.
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Cryptocurrency Prices Tumble, Exchange Trading Falters as Snags Crop Up; Bitcoin Sees Over 17 Percent Dip
Cryptocurrency prices plunged and crypto trading was delayed on Tuesday, a day in which El Salvador ran into snags as the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
-
Bitcoin’s 60 Percent Rally From July Lows May Be Running Out of Steam
Bitcoin’s sudden burst above the $50,000 (roughly Rs. 37.1 crores) level didn’t last long and chart patterns signal its rally since July is at risk of fading.
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Bitcoin Was First Used To Buy Pizza. Other Interesting Tidbits
A Florida resident traded his Bitcoins to get two pizzas in 2010. The transaction is known as the first official use of Bitcoin for a commercial transaction with an actual company
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What Is Cryptocurrency Mining? How Can You Do It?
Although cryptocurrency is on the rise, this new form of money is not very well understood. What exactly is cryptocurrency, and how do people 'mine' it? In this explainer, we take a deep dive into one of the key facets of the blockchain based cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ether, and so on.
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Visa Says Spending on Crypto-Linked Cards Topped $1 Billion in First Half This Year
Visa said its customers spent more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,480 crores) on its crypto-linked cards in the first half of this year, as the payments processor takes steps to make crypto transactions smoother.
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CryptoPunk NFT Sells for $11.7 Million, First-Ever NFT Sold for $1.47 Million at Sotheby's Auction
The first non-fungible token (NFT) ever created was sold at auction for $1.47 million (roughly Rs. 10 crores), Sotheby's said, the latest sale in the technological revolution sweeping the art market.
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Cryptocurrency Transactions Banned by China in Financial, Payment Institutions
China has banned financial institutions and payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions and warned investors against speculative crypto trading.
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Bitcoin Jumps Above $1,000 For First Time In Three Years
Bitcoin is a web-based "cryptocurrency" that has no central authority, relying instead on thousands of computers across the world that validate transactions and add new bitcoins to the system.
