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Coinbase Trades at a $77B Valuation as BTC Heads Towards a $1T Market Cap

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 17, 2021, 3:00 p.m. EST

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Is $50,000 BTC the Beginning of a Bitcoin Supercycle?

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 16, 2021, 11:46 a.m. EST

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The Mainstream Media Narrative Shifts as Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley Come to Bitcoin

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 15, 2021, 3:00 p.m. EST

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Why Comparing Bitcoin to Visa Doesn’t Make Any Sense

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 14, 2021, 9:00 a.m. EST

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Corporate Crypto Makes Government Bans Less Likely

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 13, 2021, 9:00 a.m. EST

Corporate Crypto Makes Government Bans Less Likely

Gradually, Then Suddenly: Mastercard, BNY Mellon, Amazon, Twitter Poised to Join the Bitcoin Party

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 11, 2021, 3:00 p.m. EST

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How Nigeria and India Are Dealing With Crypto Bans

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 10, 2021, 3:00 p.m. EST

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Will Apple Be the Next Fortune 500 to Buy Bitcoin?

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 9, 2021, 3:02 p.m. EST

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Elon Musk Buys Bitcoin: Everything You Need to Know About Tesla's $1.5B Purchase

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 8, 2021, 12:20 p.m. EST

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Wall Street Is ‘The Hunger Games’ With Suits

By Nathaniel WhittemoreFeb 7, 2021, 9:00 a.m. EST

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Polygon sees Coinme acquisition as entry to payments sector dominated by Visa, Stripe

CEO Marc Boiron said the Coinme acquisition will help Polygon control customer relationships and capture revenue that previously went to payment intermediaries.

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Banks could slow stablecoin growth by paying savers more, BIS paper finds

A BIS working paper found a 1 basis point rise in U.S. bank deposit rates predicted slower stablecoin growth, cutting ten-week growth from 15% to 12%.

7 hours ago

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‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’: Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery

Numbers the spy agency handed over in the 1990s, long suspected of hiding a backdoor, turn out to have come from a basic computer program. Bitcoin was never on that list, and its quantum problem hasn’t gone anywhere.

11 hours ago

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Satoshi-era bitcoin faces a bigger quantum threat after Google’s new Willow breakthrough

Google says its Willow chip can prepare the special quantum states needed for advanced calculations with about 40 times fewer errors, reducing one of the hardware bottlenecks behind any future attempt to crack bitcoin wallets.

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