Bitcoin Reaches and Surpasses $100k USD
Bitcoin just broke $100,000 USD for the first time and reached as high as $104k, and is now sitting at $102,857 at the time of this writing.
Bitcoin just broke $100,000 USD for the first time and reached as high as $104k, and is now sitting at $102,857 at the time of this writing.
11 years ago his hard drive ended up in a U.K. landfill — with 8,000 bitcoin. It’s now worth $800 million… and James Howell wants it back. His bid to become extremely rich reached a judge on Tuesday with a team of lawyers arguing that it was still possible to Read more…
Bitcoin surged over 9.2% to an all-time high of over $74,200 on Tuesday evening as early results showed favorable outcome for Republican candidate Donald Trump, who has promised crypto-friendly policies if he wins.
Visa customers with eligible debit cards will be able to deposit funds into their Coinbase accounts — sometimes instantly — via a partnership announced by the payments giant and crypto exchange. Coinbase already has millions of connections to customers’ debit cards but this new development allows for the real-time flow Read more…
Donald Trump’s new crypto project, World Liberty Financial, had a rocky start today with frequent website outages during its token sale. According to CNBC, only about 4% of registered investors have bought tokens, and the project sold less than 3% of the 20 billion tokens available. WLF’s website suffered regular Read more…
PayPal completed its first business payment using its proprietary stablecoin as a way to demonstrate how digital currencies can be used to improve often-clunky commercial transactions. PayPal paid an invoice to Ernst & Young LLP on Sept. 23 using PYUSD, the stablecoin the firm launched last year, relying on an Read more…
The government of Bhutan is currently holding over $828 million in bitcoin. Unlike most governments, Bhutan’s BTC does not come from law enforcement asset seizures, but from bitcoin mining operations, which have ramped up dramatically since early 2023. Crypto intelligence firm Arkham highlighted the Kingdom of Bhutan’s bitcoin holdings on Read more…