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The first iteration of The Bitcoin Academy – Jack Dorsey and Jay Z’ (Shawn Carters) ‘s Bitcoin education program – has come to a close. After 12 weeks, the initiative ended by airdropping $1000 in Bitcoin to all participants who opted to receive a grant.  Jack and Jay Z’s Parting Gift As reported by Business Insider, the entire program, including the final airdrop, was personally funded by both Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey. Though it’s unclear exactly how many people received the...

Bitcoin doubled down on its recent gains by surging to a new two-week high above $21,500. Most altcoins are also in the green once again, with ATOM, XLM, and ICP standing out as the best performers. Bitcoin Saw New Weekly High The start of the month brought a lot of pain to the bulls as bitcoin fell below the coveted $20,000 and was unable to reclaim it. The situation worsened a few days ago when the cryptocurrency suddenly dumped to a six-week low of $18,500. However, it...

The largest corporate bitcoin holder has filed a new filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that will essentially allow it to purchase more BTC for up to $500 million. The news comes as the cryptocurrency surged past the $20,000 level and jumped to a new two-week high. The filing with the securities regulator shows that MicroStrategy plans to sell up to $500 million worth of its stock for “general corporate purposes, including the acquisition of bitcoin.”...

With energy sources getting expensive rapidly, the environmental impact of validating PoW crypto-assets is being studied intensely. The White House’s latest report mentions the excessive usage of energy by several industries, including cryptocurrency mining, was brought up by IOG CEO Charles Hoskinson. He went on to say that the paper, published on the order of President Joe Biden, essentially seeks to ban Bitcoin, which is based on Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism,...

The Toronto-based crypto exchange Coinberry has reportedly lost around $3 million in Bitcoin due to a software glitch in 2020. It was during a software upgrade that erroneously enabled users to purchase BTC with Canadian dollars that had yet to be properly transferred to their accounts. That loss of about 120 Bitcoins was not known until the recent lawsuit filed by the platform in Brampton, Ont., west of Toronto. According to the Finacial Post report, the bug was with the...

In an attempt to fight the galloping inflation, the European Central Bank, similar to its counterparty overseas, raised the key interest rates by 75 basis points. Unlike the Fed’s interest rate hikes, though, this one has had no real impact on BTC’s price, at least for now. With the skyrocketing inflation across the Old Continent, the ECB was a little slow to react at first and failed to follow the Fed’s example for a while. However, the central banking authority changed its...

Dan Morehead – Chief Executive Officer of Pantera Capital – believes the crypto winter will soon come to an end, and bitcoin’s price will head north again. He also argued that the supremacy of the two biggest digital assets by market capitalization – BTC and ETH – has started fading, and people should pay attention to other crypto projects that are “really important.” Bitcoin’s Rally Coming Soon In a recent interview for Bloomberg, the top executive and a keen cryptocurrency...

The Texas-based cryptocurrency mining firm – Core Scientific – produced 1,334 BTC in August and sold 1,125 BTC of that stash for approximately $25.9 million. In June this year, when the crypto market and bitcoin particularly dipped to record lows in years, Core Scientific parted with over 7,000 BTC for around $167 million. One of the leading crypto mining companies announced that August had been a highly successful month for the firm. In the past four weeks, it increased its...

Congressman Brad Sherman, who represents California’s San Fernando Valley in the U.S. Congress, is a keen critic of the cryptocurrency industry. In his view, it undermines the dominance of the American dollar and is a threat to the country’s national security. However, Sherman does not believe the government can prohibit the asset class “anytime soon” since there is too much money and power behind it. Crypto Should Have Been Banned Years ago Unlike some other American...

Jim Crame is back at it again with yet another U-turn in terms of his cryptocurrency stance. He called bitcoin and altcoins speculative assets and warned individuals to refrain from investing in them. In the past few years, Cramer has displayed a somewhat controversial view of the crypto sector. In 2021, he insisted on receiving his salary in bitcoin. Following the major price correction, though, he abandoned those plans, selling almost all of his BTC holdings. “Don’t get...