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China Has Triggered a Bitcoin Mining Exodus
Alex Brammer, vice president of business development at US cryptocurrency company Luxor Tech, recounts being bombarded by calls coming from…
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The Mayor of Reno Is Betting Big on the Blockchain
Hillary Schieve, the mayor of Reno, Nevada, takes my arm before we jaywalk across the street from City Hall. She…
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Elon Musk Tweets—and Gives Crypto Markets Growing Pains
Last week, when Elon Musk tweeted that he had spoken with the team of Doge developers about how to make…
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GameStop FOMO Inspires a New Wave of Crypto Pump-and-Dumps
Discord is a perfect vehicle for these pumps, as a semi-public forum that allows users to advertise servers broadly, ping…
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Coinbase Makes Its Debut—and Bitcoin Arrives on Wall Street
Physicists are constantly rethinking how bubbles burst. It’s one of those nagging problems in physics, deceptively simple, like working out…
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As Digital Currency’s Popularity Rises, So Do Privacy Fears
Helping people without bank accounts “sounds very bleeding heart, but what if the end result is a surveilled bank account…
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NFTs Are Hot. So Is Their Effect on the Earth’s Climate
For digital artists, the attraction of blockchain is a new model of ownership. Crypto art is no more secure from…
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NFTs Boom as Collectors Shell Out to ‘Own’ Digital Art
NFT technology, Harrison says, provides a way to attach a price tag to digital art, tapping into that primal high-quality…
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Would You Trade a Bitcoin for a Tesla?
For a brief moment on Sunday, before Tesla said it had invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin and planned to let…
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Janet Yellen Will Consider Limiting the Use of Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrencies could come under renewed regulatory scrutiny over the next four years if Janet Yellen, Joe Biden’s pick to lead…
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