Blockchains are clearly not going away.
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Often dismissed as a libertarian ponzi scheme, why has crypto bounced back yet again?
Bitcoin back?
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Twelve months ago, bitcoin looked dead in the water. Now it could be heading to all-time highs.
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Cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried may face a jail term of more than a century after conviction on seven counts of fraud and money laundering.
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New Zealand’s central bank is taking a long, hard look at cryptocurrencies and the role they will play in future business. Here’s what businesses had to say about our digital future.
Tocyn hanner ceiniog gan Gwmni Mwyngloddio Parys o Fôn yn 1788. Defnyddiwyd cynllun yn dangos derwydd am flynyddoedd lawer.
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Cwmni mwyngloddio o Gymru oedd y cyntaf i roi tocynnau i weithwyr fel dull arall o dalu.
A halfpenny token issued by the Parys Mining Company of Anglesey in 1788. The hooded druid design was used for many years and was the first of hundreds of token designs.
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A Welsh mining company was the first to issue tokens to workers as an alternative form of payment.
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Barely 2% of Australians or Americans use Bitcoin for its intended purpose: to buy things. Should we even call it a cryptocurrency?
No ifs or bits.
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It needs to be treated like the new class of assets that it is.
Place your bits.
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The new UK white paper reforming the gambling laws for the digital age says nothing about one of the most concerning new developments in this field in the past 20 years.
Up, up and …
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There’s much excitement among bitcoiners right now – but are they about to be disappointed?
A worker from Hope House, an organization that sponsors the use of cryptocurrencies on El Zonte beach, makes a purchase at a small shop that accepts bitcoins, in Tamanique, El Salvador, June 9, 2021.
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An expert in the field of cryptocurrencies answers the question: Is crypto really here to stay or is it just a fad?
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The licence didn’t extend to trading in cryptocurrenices, and had been granted to a firm FTX took over, rather than FTX itself.
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Cryptocurrency exchanges like FTX aren’t safe. Here’s what every crypto investor needs to know.
The cryptocurrency exchange FTX fell from a multibillion-dollar company to bankruptcy in less than a week.
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Even though some traditional financial firms parked millions in the bankrupt company – once valued at $30 billion – the impact of FTX’s spectacular crash is limited to crypto investors
Former FTX billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Stand by for more drama in the days ahead.
Digital money is one of the predominant forms of currency used today.
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Not all digital money is cryptocurrency. Digital money can take the form of card or mobile phone payments, central bank digital currencies and virtual currencies such as Zuck Bucks.
Blockchain transactions are carried in blocks. The amount of energy it takes to add a new block varies widely depending on how it’s done.
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Ethereum, one of the world’s largest blockchains and host of decentralized finance, NFTs and billions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency, is poised to dramatically reduce its energy consumption.
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El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele thought making Bitcoin legal tender would revolutionise his country’s economy, He was wrong.
Ethereum inventor Vitalik Buterin.
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Crypto’s second-largest currency is shifting to a new environmentally friendly system.
Proof of work mining requires specialist hardware, and as a result is energy intensive.
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Cryptocurrency has a substantial carbon footprint. Ethereum have taken steps to address this, but will others follow suit?