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In recent weeks, Elon Musk – the South African entrepreneur behind billion-dollar companies such as Tesla and SpaceX – has been taking a lot of flack regarding his stance on bitcoin and his alleged role in the asset’s downfall, but according to Cathie Wood of Ark Invest, Musk is going to prove to be one of the most positive figures in the crypto space in the coming future. Elon Musk May Be a Big Part of Crypto in the Future Musk has been highly controversial as of late...

Iran has officially banned bitcoin mining. In a recent statement, the country’s president Hassan Rouhani says that the nation has been the victim of numerous blackouts over the past several months and officials are claiming the extraction of new digital coins could be the cause. Thus, the government is not willing to take any chances and is setting a ban in place before things can potentially get worse. Iran Ends All BTC Mining… For Now Bitcoin mining has been under...

Not long ago, it was reported that Elon Musk was starting to ask bitcoin miners where they got their energy from as a means of better understanding who was using clean energy to extract coins and who was not. Elon Musk Isn’t Putting His Mining Fears to Rest Now, it appears Musk has initiated the first collection of conversations with these miners, and he is happy about the information he has received. This has ultimately sent bullish waves through the crypto space and...

BTC has reclaimed the $40K level after Elon Musk’s surprise announcement that he had spoken to North American Bitcoin miners, who are committing to use renewable resources whilst mining bitcoin, and will request miners worldwide to follow suit. This meeting was hosted by MicroStrategy CEO and Bitcoin advocate Michael Saylor, and it included the leading Bitcoin miners in North America. Yesterday I was pleased to host a meeting between @elonmusk & the leading Bitcoin...

Elon Musk – the South African entrepreneur behind billion-dollar companies such as Tesla and SpaceX – has taken more jabs at the bitcoin mining process. Elon Musk Isn’t Done Asking Mining Questions People were shocked last week when Tesla announced it would not be accepting bitcoin payments for goods and services despite claiming it would do so back in March. Sadly, this sent bitcoin into a huge downward spiral, and at the time of writing, the world’s biggest and most...

Crypto exchanges FTX and BitMEX pledged to become carbon neutral. They will start the process with considerable donations to balance emissions. The Musk Effect Following the environmental debates which Elon Musk caused with his tweets earlier this week, two of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges announced they would become carbon neutral. The San Fransisco-based trading venue – FTX – revealed its commitment to implement the inovation. In a recent tweet, it reminded that...

Volatility could be scary for some BTC investors, but it’s the price to pay for overperforming the S&P index 10x over a decade, said MicroStrategy’s CEO, Michael Saylor. He also described Elon Musk as “enthusiastic” about the bitcoin space following the latest criticism from Tesla’s CEO. Speaking on the enhanced volatility that bitcoin faced in the past week or so, Saylor joined others indicating that such dramatic fluctuations could be expected to some extent in the...

In yet another comment on the overall cryptocurrency industry, Elon Musk reaffirmed that he supports it over the existing fiat system. Elon Musk, one of the richest men on the planet and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, once again caused a Tweetstorm after saying that he supports crypto over fiat. The true battle is between fiat & crypto. On balance, I support the latter. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 22, 2021 Despite his Tweet being short and without any arguments, it...

This week was particularly turbulent in the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin’s price crashed to $30K following comments made by Elon Musk, who keeps teasing Dogecoin HODLers. Meanwhile, we also saw old China FUD recycled yet again. Starting off with bitcoin’s price performance, the week was rather unfortunate for bulls. BTC is down about 25% in the past seven days, currently sitting at $37K. It’s worth noting, though, that the cryptocurrency fell even lower, briefly touching...

It seems that Elon Musk is not the nice guy on the neighborhood aymore. Instead, people could be getting tired of his tweets —or maybe the losses after the flash crash following his claims that Bitcoin was dangerous for the environment were the last straw for many cryptocurrency enthusiasts who are no longer afraid to criticize him. Recently Elon became the trolled troll of Crypto Twitter. Just moments after he tried to mock Michael Saylor, the CEO of Tesla received so much...