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‘Bitcoin in 2009!’ — Emmy Winner Ted Lasso Drops Crypto Reference

In the latest sign of crypto seeping into popular culture, the hit TV show Tad Lasso dropped a reference to Bitcoin in its Season 2 finale that [...]

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10 October 2021 20:27

El Salvador to Use Bitcoin Profits to Build Pet Hospital

El Salvador’s president said Saturday that the country will use profits from its Bitcoin holdings to build a “pet hospital.”  President Nayib Bukele, who made Bitcoin legal [...]

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10 October 2021 17:06

Edward Snowden: CBDCs Are ‘Cryptofascist Currencies’ That Could ‘Casually Annihilate’ Savings

In a barbed tweet yesterday, NSA consultant turned whistleblower Edward Snowden said that Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) could “casually [annihilate] the savings of every wage-worker” in [...]

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10 October 2021 16:33

Stacks Blows Up 57% After Bitcoin NFTs Take Off

The demand for Stacks, a blockchain that combines Bitcoin with smart contracts, is soaring. The price of its STX token has risen 57% in the last 24 [...]

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10 October 2021 14:33

XRP Surges 9% While Ripple Swamps SEC with Legal Docs

The price of XRP, the seventh-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, blew up by 9% in the last 24 hours to hit $1.19. Its rise followed several strong [...]

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10 October 2021 12:34

NFTs Are Still Hot in China, Despite Crypto Crackdown

  In July, I formed a thesis that crypto is going through de-Chinalization, a period in which China’s anti-crypto regulation would force miners and centralized exchanges to [...]

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10 October 2021 12:01

Vitalik Buterin: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Approach Is ‘Contrary to the Ideals’ of Crypto

In a surprise Reddit post on Friday, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin had strong words for El Salvador’s Bitcoin rollout, and specifically President Nayib Bukele for forcing local [...]

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9 October 2021 21:43

Dell Founder Michael Dell Is ‘Going to Pass’ on Bitcoin

Michael Dell, the founder of the computer company Dell Technologies, is “going to pass” on Bitcoin. Speaking to The New York Times in an interview published today, Dell [...]

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9 October 2021 16:26

Mirror, DAOs, and the Exclusivity Problem

I’m old enough to remember when you could only join Facebook if you had a college email address. That was in spring 2005, my senior year of [...]

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9 October 2021 16:01

Why Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin Surged This Week

This week brought good news for investors in Cryptoland. Bitcoin went up 15%, Ethereum up 8% and some coins, such as the Dogecoin spinoff Shiba Inu (SHIB) [...]

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9 October 2021 14:38

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Elon Musk’s Puppy, Snoop Dogg’s NFT Wisdom

Twitter is the undisputed watering hole of the crypto industry, and something pops up on our feeds that propels the industry along each week. Here’s our handy [...]

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9 October 2021 13:05

Ndamukong Suh: I Should’ve Spent My NFL Riches on Bitcoin

Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Ndamukong Suh has had a celebrated NFL career to date, including a Super Bowl win this year in his 11th season. He’s [...]

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9 October 2021 10:14

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