Who wins the 2024 Presidential Election could make or break Bitcoin, as baby boomers are openly hostile towards Bitcoin. The race for the 2024 U.S. presidential election is starting to kick into gear, featuring some of the same cast of characters from the last few elections. On the Democratic side,
These graphics from CoinKickoff break down and visualize the number of failed crypto coins by year (2013-2022). Ever since the first major crypto boom in 2011, tens of thousands of cryptocurrency coins have been released to market. And while some cryptocurrencies performed well, others have ceased to trade or have ended
Carlos Slim Helú, a Mexican business magnate who provided the newspaper with a $250 million loan in 2009 and currently owns roughly 8% of it, is one of the people who may benefit from The New York Times’ attacks on Bitcoin. Does one of the largest individual shareholders of The New
According to Worldometer, the global energy consumption of Bitcoin mining alone is estimated at around 0.59% of the world’s energy usage. Therefore, Biden’s plan to tax crypto mining might help reduce emissions. Cryptocurrency miners based in the United States could soon face a tax equal to 30% of the cost of
In 2022, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren authored a bill that would require cryptocurrency wallet providers to comply with bank Anti-Money Laundering rules. Not crypto exchanges, mind you, but the wallets themselves. Kansas Senator Roger Marshall joined her on the proposal as a co-sponsor.
Deputy Finance Minister Aleksey Moiseev said that he and the Bank of Russia see crypto as a ‘necessary evil’. Russia’s Finance Ministry has warned about the dangers of investing in cryptocurrencies, although it acknowledged that digital assets could be useful in certain situations. Deputy Finance Minister Aleksey Moiseev described cryptocurrencies
In the latest episode of the All-In podcast, longtime Bitcoin bull Chamath Palihapitiya said that “crypto is dead in America.”
Due to the economic separation between Russia and the West resulting from the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is developing special institutions to mine and transfer crypto across borders.
In an interview, David Schwartz, the CTO of Ripple, said that he did not discover Bitcoin until 2011, and he certainly wished he had found it earlier, which ends speculation on Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity.