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People will go through great lengths to get their hands on cryptocurrency. After all, assets are booming like they never have before, and bitcoin is on the verge of once again hitting $64,000 per unit, which was the new all-time high it achieved in April of this year. However, who would be nasty enough to kidnap someone over it? This is the situation at hand as a 14-year-old boy was taken against his will after talking about his growing crypto stash on social media. The...

37-year-old Jesse Sullivan is a Republican businessman that’s entering the race for the governorship of Illinois. Right now, the governor’s position is held by J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire and heir to the Hilton hotel fortune. Sullivan Is Making a Run for Governor What makes Sullivan so unique? He established a nonprofit organization that survived primarily thanks to cryptocurrency donations. Sullivan has worked primarily as a venture capitalist prior to entering...

As we all remember, Elon Musk and Tesla shocked the world when back in February, they purchased approximately $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency by market cap. The company was one of the first institutions to add the digital currency to its balance sheet. Today, that $1.5 billion is worth approximately $2.5 billion, meaning Musk and Tesla have grown by about $1 billion in just eight months. Elon Musk Made the Right Choice to Hold...

Russian president Vladimir Putin has stated that he is not a big bitcoin hater. In fact, he even hinted in a recent interview that Russia could be the next big country to declare the currency a national payment option in the coming future, though a specific timeline was not given. Vladimir Putin Discusses Crypto The discussion centering around crypto hails from a recent one-on-one Putin had with CNBC. A question regarding oil contracts being settled in crypto rather than...

Jurrien Timmer – the director of Fidelity – believes that the price of bitcoin could reach $100,000 by the year 2023. Timmer: The Price of BTC Is On the Verge of Exploding At first glance, this prediction seems a little farfetched, especially when one considers the major hurdles bitcoin has been through over the past few months. Following news that Elon Musk was rescinding his decision to allow customers to pay for Tesla vehicles with bitcoin and that China was expelling...

A Baptist church in the state of Mississippi has become the latest venture to accept donations in cryptocurrency. Back Bay Baptist Church in the city of St. Martin has announced that it will begin to accept digital currencies for any donations now that the coronavirus pandemic has allegedly made making standard fiat payments difficult for some attendees. Back Bay Gives a Greenlight to Crypto Payments Bitcoin and many of its digital counterparts were initially created to...

An international ring of scammers has its eyes set on crypto fans that are looking for love, according to Sophos cybersecurity researchers. The goal is to get them to give up control of their digital stashes, as well as their handsets. Sophos Discusses New “Crypto Rom” Scam The gang has been dubbed “Crypto Rom,” and according to Sophos, the organization has expanded from Asia into regions of both Europe and the United States. The structure of the scam works, in many...

Wild Pack Beverage Inc. has become the latest company to begin accepting bitcoin and crypto payments for products and services. Wild Pack Brings the Crypto Payment World Closer to Reality This has become a growing trend as of late. No doubt, the cryptocurrency space is becoming much stronger and heading deeper into mainstream territory as more and more view the asset space as something that is not only valid, but necessary. However, things didn’t start out on that path....

The Bank of England’s new deputy governor Jon Cunliffe is telling regulators to get to work quickly when it comes to the growing cryptocurrency space. Jon Cunliffe Says Regulation Is a Must Digital currencies were ultimately created to push credit cards, fiat, and checks to the side. Basically, anything that’s issued by a bank or traditional financial institution. The world of crypto is designed to ensure that all traders and users can have the one thing that standard...

Up to this point in time, China has always been the dominant country when it comes to mining bitcoin. Sadly, the region has done all it can to eliminate its standing in the industry, and now it looks like another nation – the United States – has opened itself up to become the world’s primary leader in the world of bitcoin mining. China Has Been Outdone By the U.S. China was – at one point – home to about 65 to 75 percent of the world’s crypto mining projects. It also is...