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United Masters – a music distribution company – is allowing many of its clients and recording artists to get paid in digital currency. United Masters Is Pushing the Main Goal of Crypto Forward Those who participate will be able to choose which currencies they get paid in through Coinbase, one of the world’s leading digital currency trading platforms. They can also select which portion of their royalties are doled out in digital assets, granted they wish to still receive...

Bitcoin “bull” Elon Musk – the South African entrepreneur behind billion-dollar companies such as SpaceX and Tesla – is now the richest man in the world, with a net worth of approximately $222 billion according to the New York Post. Elon Musk Has the Most Money Second is Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, who at the time of writing, only has a net worth of around $191 billion. Musk couldn’t help but rub the news in Bezos’ face after the Amazon head posted the following...

Compassion International – a leading company platform in the field of child development and one of the biggest nonprofits in the United States – has partnered with Engiven, Inc. The purpose? To establish a system that will allow it to accept crypto donations in the future. Compassion International Gives a Greenlight to BTC Payments Engiven is a cryptocurrency donation platform, and it is working to bring the reality that was always designed for bitcoin and its digital...

Jonathan Toebbe – a nuclear engineer with the U.S. Navy – has been charged with trying to sell secrets regarding the country’s nuclear submarines for cryptocurrency. Toebbe Is Charged with Conspiracy to Pass Along Restricted Data The scheme was allegedly uncovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in late 2020. Agents posing as foreign nationals reached out to Toebbe with an offer of paying digital currency in exchange for information about the U.S.’s nuclear...

There are still many miners having to leave China after the country declared bitcoin illegal. It looks like New York and Texas are now competing as they work to bring many of these miners to their turf. New York and Texas Go Head to Head In addition to New York and Texas, Kentucky and Georgia are also attracting their fair share of new miners. These regions are known for offering very inexpensive electricity in certain areas, and those looking to extract new coins are...

Legendary investor Bill Miller recently took part in an interview in which he praised bitcoin and the growing cryptocurrency space. Bill Miller on BTC: It’s Going to Be Big During the interview, he commented that his recent bitcoin bet will likely play out in a way similar with how Amazon did during the dot-com crash. Amazon was one of the few companies to not only survive that time, but flourish, and he is certain bitcoin has a very long and special future ahead of it....

El Salvador was one of the first countries to declare bitcoin legal tender. Quite a few people were happy about it and felt that this would potentially put the country on the map. However, some – like Vitalik Buterin – are angry that so many analysts, traders and general crypto fans continue to encourage president Nayib Bukele in his push to make bitcoin more than what it’s allegedly supposed to be. Vitalik Buterin: Bukele Is Making a Mistake Buterin is the co-creator of...

Bitcoin price started a fresh increase above the $50,000 resistance against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $52,000 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There is a key bullish trend line forming with support near $55,250 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair is showing positive signs and it could continue to rise above the $56,500 level. Bitcoin price is gaining pace above $50,000 against the US Dollar. BTC...

Not long ago, Live Bitcoin News produced an article about a pair of siblings living in Texas that had created their own successful mining business. Ishaan and Aanya Thakur – 13 (now 14) years of age and nine years of age, respectively – had studied mining videos on YouTube and converted old equipment to extract Ethereum and other forms of crypto from the blockchain. Texas Siblings Take Their Love of Crypto to the Furthest Reaches Now, these siblings are looking to take...

Cryptocurrency activity is all the rage as of late, so what does one do when they feel they have been cheated by family members who are seeking to do all they can to take advantage of growing crypto activities? Cryptocurrency Has the Capacity for Good… And Not So Good Things This seems to be the plight of one woman who has written in to financial news platform MarketWatch. Choosing to remain anonymous, the woman explained to the platform that her father reached out to...