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Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla finished 2021 with $1.99 billion worth of bitcoin, according to their recent annual filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC). In a filing early last year, the company announced that they had purchased $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin
On February 11th, popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was notified of a possible exploit on their new Advanced Trading platform. The notification came from the pseudonymous white-hat hacker “Tree of Alpha,” who received a $250k bug bounty, the largest ever awarded by Coinbase.
According to a blog posted by Coinbase on
U.S. states Georgia and Illinois recently proposed bills that would provide tax incentives for Bitcoin miners. On Thursday, state lawmakers in Georgia introduced a bill that would provide tax exemptions for the sale or use of electricity in mining activities. In late January, the Illinois state senate introduced a
Bitcoin miners are finding creative ways to recycle the heat generated from their equipment. One Netherlands-based mining company - Bitcoin Bloem - has partnered with a Dutch farmer to help heat greenhouses and to cultivate “Bitcoin Flowers.”
Bitcoin Bloem pays for the electricity costs of the miners and provides heat
On Wednesday’s episode of “On the Margin,” Blockworks co-founder Michael Ippolito sat down with Greg Foss, Jeff Booth, and Alex Gladstein to discuss Bitcoin’s role in the ongoing Canadian Freedom Convoy protests. Throughout the episode, they discuss financial censorship, concentration of government power, and Bitcoin as a nonpartisan
Canadian federal law enforcement agencies, along with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Center of Canada (FINTRAC), have begun investigating donations made to Freedom Convoy protestors, including those that were made using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. On Wednesday, the Ontario Provincial Police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ordered all regulated
Oil and gas giant ConocoPhillips announced this week that they are partnering with an undisclosed Bitcoin mining company as part of a pilot project to reduce flaring. According to a ConocoPhillips spokesperson, they have “one Bitcoin pilot project currently operating in the Bakken [a region in North Dakota known for
On Monday, leaders of the Tallycoin fundraiser for the Freedom Convoy in Canada voluntarily stopped accepting donations, at least for the time being. At the time of deactivation, the HonkHonk Hodl group had raised approximately 22 BTC, valued at nearly $1 million, through the bitcoin fundraising platform Tallycoin.
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