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DECEMBER 29, 2020

It noted that users who have borrowed from the XRP/USD margin pair are mandated to return the borrowed value prior to 7 p.m. On another note, professional football player Russell Okung will be the first player from a significant American sports league to get paid via "bitcoin," CoinDesk reported. Pacific Time on Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

27), bitcoin set a record with 63 straight days of closing above $10,000, according to CoinDesk. Coin Metrics statistics show that the 180-day returns volatility for bitcoin is down 41 percent so far in September, CoinDesk reported. Closing at $10,793 on Sunday (Sept. The cryptocurrency's previous record was between Dec.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Bitcoin saw a new all-time record high on Monday (Nov. Bitcoin’s price has been steadily rising in recent weeks, climbing above $19,000 last week , thanks to the pandemic-driven shift toward digital payments and cryptocurrency adoption by several mainstream companies, including Square and PayPal. Eastern Time.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Now You Can Trade Bitcoin Any Time. The Winklevoss twins want to trade bitcoin, and they want to do it now. Growing impatient waiting for their ETF fund to be listed and to boost bitcoin trading, the cofounders of the Gemini Trust Company, a digital currency exchange based in the U.S., The price of bitcoin reached $607.31

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Bitcoin investors are in for a halving event in 2020 that could potentially give their currency a boost , according to Bloomberg. A halving event refers to the process in which the reward that Bitcoin creators get for creating fresh bitcoins will be cut in half. Once, in 2012, the block reward went from 50 to 25 bitcoins.

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APRIL 21, 2020

In other news, a hacker of finance protocol dForce has returned millions in stolen cryptocurrency, CoinDesk reported. dollar-linked stablecoins was also present in the returns. The hacker didn’t return exactly the same amount that had been taken, but the value was returned in other types of coins.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to a report in The Next Web , scammers tweeted out links to scam giveaways that encourage users to send small amounts of cryptocurrency to have a chance at winning more than $31 million worth of bitcoin. Elon Musk , the founder of Tesla, was used in a different bitcoin Twitter scam.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Bit by bit — but more than bitcoin by bitcoin — cryptos are inching into the mainstream, for both consumer and commercial applications. Elsewhere, Square announce last month that it has invested $50 million — approximately 1 percent of its total second-quarter assets — to purchase roughly 4,709 bitcoins. “We

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The CEO of a Virginia-based software firm claimed that the Federal Reserve ’s easing of its inflation approach was a factor in his decision to convert the rest of the firm’s money to bitcoin, Bloomberg reported. “We The suspects reportedly offered the complainant a further commission if he introduced more individuals to back the program.

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MAY 23, 2019

There is some very big news for early investors in Block.one : The cryptocurrency startup will return as much as 6,567 percent in less than three years. And the Central District Court in Israel has ruled that bitcoin is an asset and subject to capital gains tax (CGT). That is $6.6 million for a $100,000 stake.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Long ago and far away, bitcoin enthusiasm was measured in dollars, and what a difference a year makes. Well, that’s a popularity contest, and for bitcoin, popularity reigned as evidenced by the roughly $20,000 for which the cryptocurrency changed hands, a heady rise from the less-than $800 level that marked the beginning of 2017.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Secret Service confiscating 1,721,868 tether and 482 bitcoin. bitcoin, according to a Telegram user cited in the report. bitcoin, according to a Telegram user cited in the report. One investor reportedly put in 82 bitcoin, while nine additional parties reportedly invested at least 10 bitcoin. 3) at 7:13 p.m.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Monero (XMR) valued at $230,000 and bitcoin (BTC) valued at $22,000 was taken in the thefts, per the report. The company is also reportedly informing possible investors that an investment of $10,000 in computing power will return almost $10,5000 each year, while an investment of $50,000 will return almost $52,000 yearly.

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JUNE 22, 2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit to freeze the assets of two brothers allegedly engaged in “an offering fraud” and in misappropriating investor funds.

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APRIL 9, 2020

Canaan Creative , the Chinese bitcoin miner maker, registered a net loss of $148.6 exhashes per second that comprised for approximately 20 percent of the computing power growth of the bitcoin network in 2019. Fold will now have the ability to provide a co-branded Visa card that lets consumers receive bitcoin rewards via Fast Track.

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MARCH 26, 2019

While bitcoin price briefly hit above $4,000 last week, the crypto is now nearing overbought levels. is banned from trading because of his alleged involvement in a bitcoin scam. Levine signed a letter with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ( FINRA ) agreeing to the ban, but did not admit or deny any guilt in the bitcoin scam.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

According to The Next Web , an Italian judge ordered that Firano must declare bankruptcy, hand over personal assets and return as much of the stolen crypto as possible. He also deposited 230 bitcoins ($1.8 million) onto another cryptocurrency exchange and tried to withdraw the money through a bitcoin ATM.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Amid the wild price swings that have bedeviled bitcoin and other cryptos, there’s always the specter of traders and their money being soon parted – not by losses when the coins change hands, but by losses tied to hacking. As in disappearing bitcoins. New worries? Malware campaigns that target institutions might be in the offing.

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JUNE 14, 2018

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) leading authority on bitcoin, cryptocurrency and initial coin offerings (ICOs) has ruled that some well-known cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Ethereum are not securities. He noted cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Ethereum do not fall under SEC regulatory territory at this time.

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MAY 15, 2019

This has led some to predict that the digital coin could soon return to prices above $0.50. European Central Bank policy maker Francois Villeroy de Galhau believes that there is more of a future in stablecoins than in bitcoin. These are quite different from speculative assets like bitcoins, and more promising.”.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The issuers have agreed to register their tokens as securities, pay penalties, give the commission periodic reports and return funds to investors. On another note, Twitter claims that scammers used a third-party app to send bitcoin scam links via verified accounts of companies like Target, TheNextWeb reported, but it did not identify the app.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Bitcoin has had a good year despite numerous global challenges, becoming more popular than ever. According to some proponents of bitcoin, the pandemic environment provided a perfect springboard from which a surge in cryptocurrency use could arise, Bloomberg reported. Guy Hirsch , managing director for the U.S.

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But now, there’s something new to consider: cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Unprecedented Diversification Opportunities Cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin at the forefront, have quickly become essential components of diverse investment strategies, capturing the interest of investors across the globe.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Bitcoin users might soon be able to donate to help rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral. Although bitcoin isn’t one of the approved currencies, France’s Minister for Digital Affairs Cedric O said he is willing to speak to crypto platforms about possibly allowing bitcoin donations. But we are open to discussing with others.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Police in Brazil have shut down a bitcoin investment scheme that allegedly stole $359 million. The group apparently promised 5,000 people that it would give customers huge returns on bitcoin investments. HBUS , a company that operates crypto trading platform Huobi Global , has ceased operations in the U.S.

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But now, there’s something new to consider: cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Unprecedented Diversification Opportunities Cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin at the forefront, have quickly become essential components of diverse investment strategies, capturing the interest of investors across the globe.

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JUNE 22, 2018

Four years after bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox collapsed amid the biggest bitcoin theft in history, its former customers may have a chance to recover their lost cryptocurrency. Enormous assets…will be returned to creditors of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès found some bitcoins, but those have been held in the company’s estate since.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Should 50 Cent change his name to … 50 bitcoin? The rapper agreed to accept the cryptocurrency for a 2014 album – “Animal Ambition” – when one coin was only valued at a few hundred dollars, but he apparently never cashed in the 700 bitcoins from the sale. His bitcoin holdings are now worth more than $7.5

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AUGUST 16, 2019

If you own a business and you are not accepting Bitcoin as a payment method, think about this for a second. Bitcoin can NOT be charged back, it cannot bounce, and there are no reversing transactions, ever. Bitcoin can be transferred from any device, to and from anywhere in the world, 24-hours a day, 7-days a week.

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JUNE 18, 2019

As bitcoin hovers around $9,100, as Libra may (or may not) give the marquee cryptocurrency a run for its virtual money, it’s worth noting what lies behind the wild price swings — especially the ones that have ramped prices from sub $4,000 levels in short order. And where there is such a whole hearted embrace of promise there lies peril.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

“We just converted our entire cash reserves that were originally used as savings into #Bitcoin,” according to one of the tweets from the company. The author of the thread said that the government assistance programs in the country made it difficult to have workers return.

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The SEC’s long-awaited green light for spot bitcoin ETPs is welcomed by the market, but the ambivalent decision raises more questions than it answers. Spot bitcoin trusts hold actual bitcoin, as opposed to bitcoin futures trusts, which hold derivatives tied to the price of bitcoin. Valdez , Stephen P.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Marshals Service is auctioning roughly $40 million in bitcoin, CoinDesk reported on Monday (Feb. The auction of 4,040 confiscated bitcoin — worth $37.7 Bidders will also be required to make a $200,000 deposit before they can bid, which will be returned to non-winners. This is the first U.S.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

The FTC obtained a court order in March 2018 against Thomas Dluca, Eric Pinkston and Louis Gatto, with the regulator alleging that the trio falsely claimed that participants could earn large returns by paying cryptocurrency to enroll in schemes marketed under the names Bitcoin Funding Team and My7Network.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Coinsecure, a cryptocurrency exchange based in India, said Monday (April 16) that roughly $3 million worth of bitcoin were stolen from the company’s bitcoin wallet. The number of bitcoins stolen, the company said, comes to about 438. The cryptocurrency exchange currently has 200,000 users trading on a daily basis.

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APRIL 13, 2018

And bitcoin reached a two-week high on Thursday (April 12), Reuters reported. Still, bitcoin isn’t anywhere near its price in December, which was $20,000. according to CoinDesk , bitcoin was trading at $7,780.79. In other news, there’s a website asking for donations in return for not sharing your password, The Next Web reported.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

The Internal Revenue Service has issued another warning to cryptocurrency investors with federal returns that don’t match the information received from virtual currency exchanges. Bloomberg reported that in letters to the investors, the agency did acknowledge that the trading exchanges may have made the errors.

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