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AUGUST 12, 2025

Permission granted by Medidata Space flight company Blue Origin recently started using payment processor Shift4 Payments technology to let customers pay with digital assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, USDT and USDC, Shift4 said in a news release Monday. dollar, and are theoretically more stable in price. 

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JULY 21, 2025

Days after he took office, Trump issued an executive order seeking to “support the responsible growth and use of digital assets, blockchain technology, and related technologies across all sectors of the economy.”

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The Federal Ministry of Finance in Nigeria is said to be in discussions with the securities watchdog in the country to create a new digital currency and blockchain structure, Cointelegraph reported. As it stands, bitcoin and other digital currencies are seeing increasing use in Nigeria.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

A hacking organization released receipts for $10,000 in charitable contributions to two groups made through bitcoin, the BBC reported. in bitcoin ( valued at approximately $10,515 as of 7:04 P.M. They reportedly harnessed The Giving Block service that is used by numerous nonprofits globally. Eastern Time on Oct. as of 7:06 P.M.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton thinks inefficiencies in traditional payments are boosting favorability for bitcoin, a report from Coindesk says. Clayton, speaking on CNBC, said bitcoin's popularity came from that disappointment in mainstream payments.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Can the unbanked benefit from bitcoin, or are they merely the experimental subjects of bitcoin adherents, lobbyists and scientists? This week’s Bitcoin Tracker takes a look at the recent bitcoin projects that are in the news and that are targeting the unbanked. Vogel also wanted to clarify regulations surrounding bitcoin.

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MARCH 31, 2017

This past week proved once again that it’s tough to be a bitcoin fan. In another blow to bitcoin legitimacy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied the second bitcoin-based ETF bid up for consideration in the month of March — the Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.’s Well, as long-term as bitcoin value can be.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

Bitcoin miners have around $4.7 TheNextWeb , citing blockchain research firm Diar , reported that based on the data, this marks the first time cryptocurrency mining businesses aren’t making money off their bitcoin mining efforts. The move implies that mining for bitcoin is becoming largely the domain of the big players.

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APRIL 15, 2020

Investors might be keeping their bitcoins prior to halving in May, at which point rewards for each block mined will be reduced, CoinDesk reported. The seven-day moving average for all bitcoin held in exchange addresses dropped to the lowest point as of June 2019 to 2,214,365 in mid-April. The price of bitcoin was $6,638.27

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AUGUST 11, 2020

A woman in Australia will go to jail for the theft of more than 100,000 Ripple digital currency tokens over two years ago, ACS Information Age reported. The 25-year-old individual gained access to the digital currency account belonging to a man in his 50s.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

27 that it was partnering with the pizza chain to process cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Binance Coin, Binance USD, Tether, Dash, Ether, Dai and XPT, Cryptobuyer’s native coin. billion, according to The Block, citing the court’s judgment, which came out on Nov. million people, The Block reported.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

31, 2018, will mark the 10th anniversary of the day that a link to a paper , authored by Satoshi Nakamoto , describing the digital currency called bitcoin was first publicly circulated. Ten years after bitcoin launched, it remains the go-to currency of criminals and a way for cybercrooks to wash their money.

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JUNE 19, 2017

With many cybercriminals choosing bitcoin as their currency of choice, the U.S. When Troia could not even confirm whether such authorization existed, Coinbase suspended his account and blocked him from creating accounts in family members’ names to continue conducting business.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered , said he sees the adoption of digital currencies on a widespread scale as inevitable, CNBC reported. Winters, speaking at the Singapore FinTech Festival, said there would likely be room for both state-backed digital currencies as well as privately-owned ones, CNBC reported.

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

Visa has partnered with BlockFi to launch a credit card that offers bitcoin rewards rather than travel points or cash back, according to an announcement. The BlockFi Bitcoin Rewards Credit Card , which will be available in the spring of 2021, will give 1.5 The card carries a $200 annual fee. “We

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

With no Samsung-like news for bitcoin, prices are holding steady and are even a bit bullish. But let’s turn to the miners, who aren’t happy at all with a stable bitcoin price. The bitcoin block reward was halved in July, which has changed the profitability of new miner entries and could impact the decentralization of bitcoin.

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AUGUST 18, 2017

In this year alone, we’ve seen bitcoin valued at just under $1,000 in January to over $3,000 in May and soaring over $4,000 this past weekend. One of the major factors impacting the most recent leap in bitcoin value is the recent hard fork to develop a new cryptocurrency dubbed Bitcoin Cash.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Milan, Italy was the host of a formal bitcoin conference to address scaling and a protest conference that addressed, well, everything that the formal conference didn’t. Scaling of bitcoin is a thorny issue and one that caused some dissension at the Scaling Bitcoin conference that took place on October 8 and 9.

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MAY 14, 2019

A 60 percent surge in a month – for anything, really, be it stock or bond or digital currency – is nothing to sneeze at, but it could be something to see with wonder. Bitcoin, that marquee name in cryptocurrency, has seen its price swell by roughly that 60 percent number through the last few weeks, to about $8,000. Fundamentals?

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

The PIT digital currency exchange of Blockchain.com is one of the few exchanges to turn on the U.K. Faster Payments Scheme, The Block reported. The initiative will enable users to instantly deposit and withdraw British pounds, and purchase digital currencies. Two cryptos are currently supported: ether and bitcoin.

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MARCH 29, 2017

In another blow to bitcoin legitimacy, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied the second bitcoin-based ETF bid up for consideration this month — the Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.’s s NYSE Arca exchange’s request to list and trade the SolidX Bitcoin Trust.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

29, and will block withdrawals from Friday to Dec. The decision was made to block the possibility of money laundering and inflow from external networks,” the firm said, adding that other crypto exchanges have dropped monero over the same concern. Bitcoin is the perfect gift for family and friends this holiday season.

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JULY 9, 2020

Authorities in China have confiscated bitcoin, ether and tether worth more than $15 million and luxury cars from those who allegedly ran a purported cryptocurrency scheme, CoinDesk reported. It will also contemplate a block “to comply with a law, regulation or legal order from a duly recognized U.S. authorized authority, U.S.

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MARCH 21, 2017

Three days into what can only be termed a rout, shares of bitcoin have stabilized — if we accept the skewed maxim that one day’s trading makes a trend. Reuters noted Monday that the digital currency gained at least some traction, after the previous three sessions slammed pricing to its lowest level since 2015.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Edmund John, founder and CEO of KYC-Chain, a Hong Kong-based security and authentication startup, believes that blockchain’s (the distributed ledger technology that powers bitcoin) two-factor authentication capability holds the key to offering the ultimate security solution for digital identity. A long road to acceptance.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Walmart has filed a patent application for a “digital asset” that would be based on a type of block production, according to reports. The digital currency may be pegged to the U.S. In other embodiments, the digital currency is available for use anywhere.”.

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MAY 26, 2017

An agreement to upgrade the speed of processing transactions propelled bitcoin to new heights on Thursday (May 25). Bitcoin’s Satoshi blockchain can only process so much data, and this was creating a backlog in transaction processing. a digital currency trading firm in Hong Kong. Coinbase, btc.com and Coins.ph

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

People provided access to the online technology of Estonia via an eResidency program are reportedly being connected to digital currency schemes in other countries, Bloomberg reported. In other news, KuCoin has kept the accounts of its clients restricted as hackers start to reportedly move stolen digital currency, CoinDesk reported.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Bitmain , the Chinese digital currency mining firm, has filed a suit in U.S. District Court against a hacker identified as “John Doe” for a reported bitcoin theft, Cryptovest reported. million in bitcoin, as well as other assets of a digital nature. He allegedly took roughly 617 bitcoin in April.

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APRIL 14, 2017

The past week saw bitcoin (BTC) rise to near-record highs above $1,230, only to fall sharply during Thursday afternoon trading. At the time of writing, one bitcoin was equivalent to $1,174.45, down 3.46 Bitcoin’s come a long way since its infancy in 2008. bitcoin (~$14,681). bitcoin (~$14,681). per payout.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The digital currency receives “competitive yields” from decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols without intervention as it stays in a user's wallet. Origin said the digital currency is a natural addition to its aim of facilitating peer-to-peer (P2P) commerce.

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JULY 7, 2019

Are new bitcoin rules coming? The growth of digital currencies faces more than regulatory challenges, the Journal noted, saying “bitcoin has struggled to gain traction beyond a core group of techies. Even so, “regulation remains a stumbling block to cryptocurrency’s wider adoption,” the report continued.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Bitcoin prices suffered further losses this past week. As the reality of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejection sunk in, concern among investors has grown amid signs of an impending hard fork — a “great schism” of bitcoin, if you will. At the time of writing, one bitcoin was worth $1,039.93, up 0.24

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

“No countries welcome Libra, but it might be unstoppable anyways,” Changchuan Mu, the new director of China’s Research Institute on Digital Currency, said, according to CoinDesk. “It Even if Facebook is blocked in China, people will use indirect ways to purchase it from abroad once Libra comes out,” he added. If the U.S.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

All is not running business as usual in the bitcoin realm. The digital currency that has been around for nearly a decade has struggled to gain major traction in the mainstream industry outside of finance. Just last week, we reported on investors splitting off from bitcoin to create their own digital money dubbed Bitcoin Cash.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

The price of the popular digital currency spent the week climbing back up after fears that China could crack down on its domestic exchanges caused its value to slump. The developments are still ongoing, so PYMNTS’ Bitcoin Tracker will keep watch for new details in the coming weeks. percent from the day’s open of $884.25.

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MARCH 23, 2018

Bitcoin fell below the $9,000 mark on Thursday (March 22), CNBC reported. Bitcoin was trading at $8,505.18 Of all the online attacks that were blocked in December, nearly one quarter – or 24 percent – were considered to be instances of cryptojacking. And a new chatbot named Ben can trade bitcoin, TechCrunch reported.

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