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Coinstar customers in Connecticut now have the option of purchasing bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Coinstar Is Bringing Bitcoin to the Masses Typically, those big green machines one sees in the corners of supermarkets and grocery stores allow a person to bring in all their loose change and trade it for paper bills. Now, however, these machines are permitting customers to exchange those coins for digital currencies, suggesting just how big and popular the space has...

As bitcoin continues to tank hard, Ethereum just keeps picking up steam. There are many financial analysts out there that seem to think the world’s second largest cryptocurrency by market cap will soon rise to the occasion and potentially overtake the entire space. Ethereum Is Moving Up the Ladder Bitcoin has fallen – once again – to about $32,000 per unit, meaning it is now trading for half its mid-April value. The currency has undergone one of its biggest corrections...

Block Fi has joined hands with Visa to launch its new bitcoin rewards credit card. The product has been available to most residents of the United States since last Tuesday. The company had been working to unveil a BTC-based credit card since December of last year and was met with much enthusiasm from traders, who joined a waiting list to be among the first to garner the product. Block Fi and Visa Work to Bring BTC Rewards to Customers Overall, as many as 400,000 names...

What do mosquitoes and bitcoin have in common? Well, nothing really, though there is a company called Spartan Mosquito – designed to kill and control the population of the nasty little bloodsuckers – that just accepted its first bitcoin payment. Now, it looks like it is on a quest to accept bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies for all its products and services in the future. Spartan Mosquito Will Accept BTC The crypto world is wrought with currencies that were...

Regardless of what many analysts would like us to believe, 2018 is alive and well all over again given how much bitcoin has tanked in the last two months. Bitcoin Isn’t All That Better Off Recently, billionaire investor and former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz commented that he did not think 2018 would happen again. He said the number of institutional investors that have gotten involved in the digital asset space and the growing maturity of the market would prevent...

Coinbase is arguably one of the largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges in the western hemisphere. The company has become the first and only crypto exchange as of late to be listed publicly, and it is estimated that the firm has a valuation of approximately $70 billion or more. However, it looks like the company is experiencing some solid competition in the form of bitcoin payments firm Strike. Strike Is Bringing the Heat to Coinbase Over the years, Coinbase –...

The bitcoin spikes that have occurred over the past year have led to serious jumps in ransomware attacks according to new data from Barracuda Networks, a company that provides cybersecurity products and services. Barracuda Networks Sheds Light on BTC Ransomware Between October of last year and May of 2021, the price of bitcoin rose by nearly 400 percent. That is the good news. Obviously, there are many crypto traders that raked in some heavy profits, and several...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Tesla, and Facebook… Over the past several months, many analysts have talked about how all these entities are potentially related and how they correlate with each other. It is widely believed that altcoins like ETH follow bitcoin’s patterns, while it is alleged that bitcoin and stocks will mimic each other’s behavior. Either way, per Sam Bankman-Fried – the CEO and founder of popular cryptocurrency exchange FTX – believes that all these...

The month of June marked a turning point for the world of crypto and bitcoin mining, and it looks like revenue for miners has begun to slip. Crypto Miners Are Losing Out On Funds Both bitcoin and Ethereum miners reported a drop in earnings throughout June 2021. Profits fell by as much as 42 percent from May, which saw those involved in extracting new units garner a whopping $1.45 billion in crypto-based profit. By contrast, June only produced $839 million in profit for...

According to a new report issued by cryptocurrency research firm Crypto Head, the United States is the most-ready nation to initiate full scale cryptocurrency adoption. Crypto Head Puts the U.S. in the Number One Spot Crypto Head is basing its figures on several factors, including the amount of bitcoin and crypto-based ATMs the U.S. has within its borders. Thus far, the United States has more than 17,000 bitcoin ATMs stationed throughout the country. In second place was...