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MicroStrategy now holds more than 100,000 bitcoin, currently worth over $3 billion in value. The business intelligence firm has long become the largest publicly listed HODLer. Less than a year after its initial $250 million purchase, MicroStrategy has now cracked the 100,000 bitcoin mark, meaning just under 5%
Historically, one of the most prominent attack vectors cryptocurrency exchanges have had to deal with were their hot wallets — wallets connected to the internet that hold a certain amount of funds to provide instant liquidity to users in the event of rapid influx of deposits or withdrawals. Being online most
Last weekend saw a wave of new restrictions come crashing down on cryptocurrency exchanges throughout the world. The primary crackdown targets were leveraged trading and other risky derivative products, although major exchanges were also barred from operating in certain jurisdictions altogether. Binance and Huobi, two of the largest exchanges in
News - Bitcoin - Jun 29, 2021Last weekend saw a wave of new restrictions come crashing down on cryptocurrency exchanges throughout the world. The primary crackdown targets were leveraged trading and other risky derivative products, although major exchanges were also barred from operating in certain jurisdictions altogether. Binance and Huobi, two of the largest exchanges in
News - Bitcoin - Jun 29, 2021MicroStrategy now holds more than 100,000 bitcoin, currently worth over $3 billion in value. The business intelligence firm has long become the largest publicly listed HODLer. Less than a year after its initial $250 million purchase, MicroStrategy has now cracked the 100,000 bitcoin mark, meaning just under 5%
News - Bitcoin - Jun 21, 2021Historically, one of the most prominent attack vectors cryptocurrency exchanges have had to deal with were their hot wallets — wallets connected to the internet that hold a certain amount of funds to provide instant liquidity to users in the event of rapid influx of deposits or withdrawals. Being online most
News - Business - Jun 17, 2021Nothing gets Elon Musk riled up like criticism of his soft weak hands. Amidst rumors that Tesla had further reduced its exposure to Bitcoin, Musk took to Twitter to deny selling at the peak. He reiterated a positive stance on the cryptocurrency, stating that Tesla would resume acceptance of bitcoin
News - Technology - Jun 13, 2021The U.S. Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) was able to recover part of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline, the operator of the fuel distribution company that fell victim to a hack shutting down one of its key sites in the country in May. 63.7 bitcoin or approximately $2.
News - Business - Jun 08, 2021Bitcoin proponents have long pushed back against frequently resurfacing concerns surrounding Bitcoin's carbon footprint. Now, a new collaborative effort might just deliver an argument Bitcoin mining critics will find themselves struggling to refute. Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has partnered with Jack Dorsey-led Square to build and open-source, solar-powered
News - Business - Jun 05, 2021Square is considering building a Bitcoin hardware wallet to encourage non-custodial bitcoin storage, as Square chief executive and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed in a Twitter thread on Friday. While the firm has not yet decided if and when it will introduce such a wallet to the market, Dorsey wants
News - Business - Jun 04, 2021Besides their first real-life Bitcoin get-together in over a year, 12,000 bitcoiners attending the Bitcoin 2021 Conference in Miami this week can look forward to a weekend filled with games and a prize pool of 1 bitcoin, worth just under $39,000 at press time. Hosted by gaming startup
News - Business - Jun 03, 2021