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El Salvador has become the first nation in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender. So what exactly is President Nayib Bukele thinking?
El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. This is a noble idea, but unworkable in the long term.
Chinese bitcoin mining could consume as much energy as the whole of the UK by 2024.
Tesla's stance has also shone the spotlight further onto the carbon footprint of cryptocurrency – an issue that will not go away soon.
Bitcoin prices have plunged after the world's second richest person tweeted that Tesla would no longer accept the cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin has been widely criticised for its enormous energy footprint. A new cryptocurrency may solve that problem, but might bring some unintended consequences.
NatWest and HSBC are restricting customers in their crypto-dealings.
America's number one crypto exchange is floating via a direct listing.
NFTs don't even exist in the real world, but the market around them has a big effect on the planet.
NFTs are made the same way as crypto coins, but where every crypto coin is like every other, each NFT is a unique digital item – from images to sound files to text.
It might sound ridiculous but the explosive market of crypto-collectibles and crypto-art is no joke. Here's an explainer to make sense of it all
The digital tokens are a way to create scarcity and an aura of authenticity in an online world of infinite copying, pasting and remixing.
Tesla spending billions on Bitcoin is bad news for the company's shareholders and for Elon Musk's admirers - not to mention the planet.
To quote the artist: 'bruh... this crypto space seems super interesting though and i see a ton of potential to do some weird shit nobody has done yet.'
Bitcoin is attracting attention from big buyers like Tesla. But don't be fooled – it's still a disaster for the climate.
There could be a reckoning coming with global regulators.
Despite having no real basis as a financial asset, cryptocurrency Dogecoin recently reached a market cap of more than A$12 billion.
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a rise in digital localism — consumers using online local sites to buy and supply goods. Do platforms born during COVID-19 have a chance of survival?
While bitcoin is only a currency, the second-largest cryptocurrency is at the heart of a platform that aims to transform the internet.
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Associate Professor in Financial Technology, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer & Director of the LLM. Research interests - AI and the law; Social relationships of trust; Sustainable futures, Australian National University
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Professor of International Finance and Commodities, Trinity College Dublin
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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