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Bitcoin Transaction Fees Spiked Over 200% In 10 Days Since Halving

May 20, 2020

Miners have collected the equivalent of 1,176 BTC in transaction fees since Bitcoin’s third supply cut on May 11. That compares with 818 BTC earned as fees in April and 1,251 BTC in March. Miners reap fewer ...

Majority Of Coinbase’s Customers Eventually Buy Other Digital Assets Rather Than Bitcoin

May 20, 2020

According to Coinbase,“Bitcoin’s dominance alongside Coinbase customer behavior” indicates that customers who leverage the exchange still enjoy purchasing altcoins other than BTC. “Among customers with at le...

45 Older-Generation Bitcoin Miners Become Unprofitable After Halving

May 18, 2020

Roughly 45 older mining devices have been shut down overnight since the reward halving. The estimate of the 45 miners is based on the electrical price of 0.35 Chinese yuan per kilowatt-hour (kWh) or $0.049 U...

J.K Rowling Tries To Understand The Magical World Of Bitcoin

May 16, 2020

Harry Potter author, J.K Rowling tried her very best to understand the magical world of Bitcoin. It started off as a simple request from a journalist to then very quickly making headlines. Suddenly, everyone ...

Bitcoin Miners May Be Switching Off Post-Halving

May 14, 2020

While the price has recovered a major portion of the lost ground, the cryptocurrency’s hashrate (the total computing power dedicated to mining blocks on the blockchain) has declined a whopping 98 exahashes (E...

Bitcoin Remains As Best-Performing Asset Of 2020

May 10, 2020

Bitcoin remains as the best-performing asset class so far this year. Fundstrat’s head of research, Thomas Lee took to Twitter to showcase how Bitcoin has increased more than any other asset class in 2020. The...

Bryan Cook Wins Virtual NASCAR Race In A ‘Bitcoin Car’

April 25, 2020

Recently, one Bitcoin fan won a virtual NASCAR race -- featuring the current NASCAR Cup Series Drivers' Champion Kyle Busch -- in a white and orange car that was covered with the Bitcoin logo. The NASCAR Cup...

Glimpse Of Finance 2.0 As China Launches Digital Yuan

April 21, 2020

China’s announcement to locally launch its digital Yuan is set to be a major catalyst that drives legacy financial systems into the era of bitcoin and decentralised money. Throughout 2019, the People’s Bank ...

Bitcoin Sextortion Scam Targets User Webcams

April 20, 2020

A massive bitcoin sextortion scam is ransoming users by threatening to leak footage from their webcam while viewing adult websites. Reddit user uclatommy first alerted the crypto community to a series of com...

Billionaires Mark Cuban And Tyler Winklevoss Debate Bitcoin’s Complexity On Twitter

April 20, 2020

Billionaires Mark Cuban and Tyler Winklevoss engaged in an informal Twitter debate over the complexity of bitcoin. Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise, appeared in an interview with Anthony “P...