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
As El Salvador became the first country to accept bitcoin as a legal currency, many merchants in the country of 6.5 million began accepting bitcoin. From McDonald's to Pizza Hut, Salvadorans can now make their purchases with bitcoin.
Since September 7th, dubbed "Bitcoin Day" by
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
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
As El Salvador became the first country to accept bitcoin as a legal currency, many merchants in the country of 6.5 million began accepting bitcoin. From McDonald's to Pizza Hut, Salvadorans can now make their purchases with bitcoin.
Since September 7th, dubbed "Bitcoin Day" by
Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has called on the country's workers to mine cryptocurrencies rather than "pick strawberries" on farms abroad.
Speaking at the opening of the Petrikovsky mining and processing plant on August 27th, Lukashenko advocated for the more efficient use of energy, of which he
Bitcoin's hash rate is on a steady upward trajectory as miners switch their machines back on — outside of China. Since its June low around the 84 exahashes per second (EH/s) mark, the hash rate has grown around 50%.
China’s crackdown on bitcoin mining has contributed to
Argentina's president Alberto Fernandez is open to the idea of the South American country issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) or adopting Bitcoin.
In an interview with local media outlet Filo News, Fernandez showed himself open towards Bitcoin, although he admitted he wasn't too familiar
First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia Sergey Shvetsov likened buying bitcoin to "entering a minefield" in an interview released on the Central Bank's official website Wednesday.
Shvetsov went on to describe alternative financial instruments such as Bitcoin as "technological financial pyramids," adding
The White House has come out in support of an amendment to the infrastructure bill drafted by U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Rob Portman — much to the despair of many in the digital asset space.
Initial hopes for the $1 trillion bill, which is over 2,000 pages
