Bitcoin

2021-05-02 03:13:29 Tether, the crypto stablecoin backed one-for-one by fiat currencies, surpassed $50 billion in circulation, a sum that’s more than the insured deposits at all but 44 of the thousands of U.S. banks.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-01/crypto-s-shadow-currency-surges-past-deposits-of-most-u-s-banks Open / Comment

2021-04-30 11:09:39 Blockstream Releases Base Station For Bitcoin Broadcasting Satellite

"Blockstream has introduced the Blockstream Satellite Base Station, a receiver for the satellite it maintains to broadcast the Bitcoin blockchain from space."

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/blockstream-offers-satellite-base-station Open / Comment

2021-04-30 11:03:13 "Bitcoin uses too much eNeRgY!" he types on his $2,000 Macbook pro in his $5,000/month apartment while sipping on his $10 daily latte. A Paul Krugman podcast softly plays in the background.

- Dan Held

https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1387783269710655503 Open / Comment

2021-04-27 17:49:42 Tesla has sold 10% of its #bitcoin holdings "essentially to prove liquidity of Bitcoin as an alternative to holding cash on balance sheet," Tesla chief Elon Musk said.

https://www.btctimes.com/news/tesla-sold-272m-of-bitcoin-to-prove-liquidity Open / Comment

2021-03-31 04:43:23 THE "JOURNALISTS" WHO CONVINCED YOU THAT BITCOIN WAS A PONZI SCHEME ARE, IN FACT, THE TRUE SCAMMERS

- Jameson Lopp

https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1376900892239261698 Open / Comment

2021-03-31 04:42:16 Blockstream is launching a #Bitcoin mining security token.

https://btctimes.com/news/blockstream-to-launch-bitcoin-mining-security-token Open / Comment

2021-03-31 04:38:44 #USDt is fully backed, according to an assurance opinion by Moore Cayman.

https://www.btctimes.com/news/tether-is-fully-backed-assurance-opinion-shows Open / Comment

2021-03-30 13:37:54 PayPal is going to launch a #Bitcoin checkout service that will allow its users to convert cryptocurrencies in their account to fiat upon checkout to use them for payments at 29 million online merchants.

https://www.btctimes.com/news/paypal-launches-bitcoin-checkout-service Open / Comment

2021-03-17 20:27:55 Visa plans to not only facilitate #Bitcoin purchases, but also enable Bitcoin payments “at any of the 70 million places around the world where Visa is accepted,” the firm's CEO said.

https://www.btctimes.com/news/visa-plans-to-enable-bitcoin-purchases Open / Comment

2021-03-11 09:33:34 Think of #Bitcoin like a manipulation gage.

The more that governments around the world manipulate their currency to engineer "economic growth", the more their manipulation shows up in the #Bitcoin gage.

*House passes 1.9 TRILLION COVID relief package today.

- Preston Pysh

https://twitter.com/PrestonPysh/status/1369740844471877634 Open / Comment