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

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 Tuesday, February 8th, a document appeared on the Russian government’s official website that laid the basic principles for regulating cryptocurrencies. Earlier this year Russia’s central bank proposed a blanket ban on cryptocurrency use and mining on Russian territory, citing risks related to speculative trading and energy usage

The ticker WGMI (internet slang for “We're gonna make it”) invests in publicly traded bitcoin mining companies focused on using renewable energy. The ETF began trading on Tuesday February 8 and after the first day of trading had a volume of 151,917. For reference, the highest volume

On Monday, banking giant Wells Fargo released a report titled  "Cryptocurrencies — Too early or too late?" The goal of the report was to address a “common point of confusion regarding the future of cryptocurrencies as investments” - namely, whether it is either too early or too late to

On February 1, 2022 the SEC released an order asking Bitwise to clarify how the firm will prevent manipulation, fraud, liquidity, the spot ETFs effect on bitcoin futures trading and other potential issues. Bitwise will have 21 days to publicly address the SEC’s concerns, then the ruling on listing

On January 31, 2022 Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS) released a report titled “Bitcoin First,” in which co-authors Chris Kuiper and Jack Neureuter propose that Bitcoin is fundamentally different from other digital assets and that investors should treat it as a monetary good that “no other digital asset is likely to