A pioneering nation state in all things Bitcoin, El Salvador is making moves to get into bitcoin mining — using geothermal energy from one of its 11 volcanos. An idea born on a Twitter Spaces session on the day El Salvador's parliament passed the "Ley Bitcoin" (Bitcoin

UK-focused Bitcoin exchange CoinCorner has gone carbon-neutral. The company announced on Tuesday that it has calculated the carbon emissions produced by staff commutes, office electricity, partner companies utilized, and every transaction it passes through the Bitcoin network, and has partnered with two charities to offset those emissions. As part of

Bitcoin.org appears to have been taken over to promote a giveaway scam. The website, which has been a popular destination for those seeking information on Bitcoin — not least thanks to its domain name — now displays a pop-up asking visitors to send money to a Bitcoin address, which it says

The first country to make Bitcoin legal tender, El Salvador has also become the first nation state to routinely buy the Bitcoin dips. When on "Bitcoin Day," the day the Central American nation's Bitcoin Law went into effect, Bitcoin dropped from $52,000 to to the

Germany's finance regulator BaFin has approved the first security token offering (STO) issued on a Bitcoin sidechain for the German market. The approval was obtained by alternative asset marketplace STOKR to host the security token offering for sci-fi MMO Infinite Fleet, according to a press release shared with

A new Bitcoin movie has hit the screens. This Machine Greens, a documentary by award-winning filmmaker Jamie King (“Steal This Film”), premiered this week on YouTube. The crowd-funded documentary, produced by Enrique Posner, explores the relationship of Bitcoin to energy and examines critics’ claims that bitcoin mining is “dirty.” The

El Salvador made history on Tuesday, September 7th as the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender. 72 hours later, a government advisor for the Central American country revealed it will exempt foreign investors from paying taxes on Bitcoin profits, both on capital gains and income in bitcoin. With this

Hasty reporting and subpar fact-checking caught a number of the world's leading media outlets in an awkward situation on Monday as a fake press release made it into their headlines. "Walmart to accept payments with cryptocurrencies using Litecoin," a CNBC article headline originally read, in the