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Tanzania's central bank is reportedly working on a directive from the country's president Samia Suluhu Hassan to prepare for cryptocurrencies. The developments could hint at a possible reversal of the central bank's stance on Bitcoin, Reuters reports. In 2019, the Tanzanian central bank publicly
A national address to El Salvador's citizens saw a first today: a president conducting a tutorial on how to use a Bitcoin wallet. And not any Bitcoin wallet: as Bukele announced previously, the Salvadoran government is working on a wallet application for the country to support the addition
Bitcoin is headed for what is expected to be the largest downward difficulty adjustment in its history. As China has effectively opted out of Bitcoin by instructing banks and payment service provides to cut off Bitcoin-linked transactions and ordering miners in various regions to shut down their operations, Bitcoin miners
News • Economy • Jun 27, 2021Bitcoin is headed for what is expected to be the largest downward difficulty adjustment in its history. As China has effectively opted out of Bitcoin by instructing banks and payment service provides to cut off Bitcoin-linked transactions and ordering miners in various regions to shut down their operations, Bitcoin miners
News • Economy • Jun 27, 2021Tanzania's central bank is reportedly working on a directive from the country's president Samia Suluhu Hassan to prepare for cryptocurrencies. The developments could hint at a possible reversal of the central bank's stance on Bitcoin, Reuters reports. In 2019, the Tanzanian central bank publicly
News • Economy • Jun 24, 2021A national address to El Salvador's citizens saw a first today: a president conducting a tutorial on how to use a Bitcoin wallet. And not any Bitcoin wallet: as Bukele announced previously, the Salvadoran government is working on a wallet application for the country to support the addition
News • Economy • Jun 24, 2021BIT Mining Limited, the fifth-largest mining pool by hash rate in the world, announced Tuesday that it had successfully transported the first of three mining machine shipments from Sichuan, China to the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan. The initial shipment contained over three hundred mining machines with a potential hash
News • Bitcoin • Jun 21, 2021China's crackdown on Bitcoin mining is beginning to materialize as restrictions expand to the Sichuan province, one of the main regions used for Bitcoin mining in the country. On Friday, the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission issued a joint notice with the Sichuan Energy Bureau demanding the
News • Economy • Jun 18, 2021The World Bank will not help El Salvador with its implementation of Bitcoin as legal tender. "We are committed to helping El Salvador in numerous ways including for currency transparency and regulatory processes," a spokesperson from the World Bank is quoted saying, according to a Reuters report. The
News • Economy • Jun 16, 2021Obi Nwosu is the CEO and co-founder of Coinfloor, the UK's longest-running Bitcoin exchange. He has over 20 years’ experience building online marketplaces and bringing virtual currencies to tens of millions of people. Obi writes The Road to Bitcoin Hegemony, a weekly recap of some of the most
Opinion • Economy • Jun 14, 2021In August of last year, MicroStrategy set off what resembles a movement of institutions to get skin into the Bitcoin game. After Michael Saylor's firm bought its first $250 million worth of bitcoin, it took mere months for various public companies to follow suit; soon, even banks began
News • Economy • Jun 07, 2021