Environmentalists have criticised the gas-fired mine but the company says it offsets its emissions.

Amazon.com Inc on Monday denied a media report saying the e-commerce giant was looking to accept bitcoin payments by the end of the year.

According to a latest job listing, Amazon's Payments Acceptance & Experience team is "seeking an experienced product leader to develop Amazon's Digital Currency and Blockchain strategy and product roadmap".

More investors are turning to self-directed IRA accounts as a way to bet on bitcoin in their retirement portfolios.

Today, crypto markets pace are dictated by sophisticated trading algorithms that operate at high-frequency and can make split-second decisions to deploy massive capital. Leveraging Crowdsense intelligence could be the difference between preempting the markets and entering when it's too late to be profitable.

Amidst fears of money laundering and related crimes, the European Union has proposed the restriction of anonymous crypto transfers to counter the rise of fraudulent transactions – a move that would make Bitcoin and other crypto fully traceable.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said to investors that he sees opportunities to integrate bitcoin into Twitter’s existing products including Tip Jar, Super Follows, and e-commerce and subscription features as he thinks bitcoin will be a big part of the company’s future, according to Techcrunch.

Bitcoin, Ether and almost all other cryptocurrency have been doing it rough for the last month after China committed to banning cryptocurrency mining, among other services, in late June. Now crypto enthusiasts have more to fret, as the EU looks to crackdown on the cryptocurrency industry by making digital wallets more traceable.

BTC mining difficulty has posted another negative adjustment on the weekend, with the difficulty rate almost becoming half since mid-May. In the thick of the in progress crackdown on digital asset mining in China, mining new BTC continues getting uncomplicated as Bitcoin has gone through another mining difficulty decline.

While Bitcoin (BTC) has been gaining and continues to gain popularity all the time, more and more transactions are being processed in its ecosystem. Bitcoin’s blockchain is essentially a database that allows network participants to see all previous, recorded transactions. This database is distributed, and every user of the network has a copy of it.

Malaysian authorities did not mess around when they broke up a cryptocurrency mining farm and charged the operators with stealing electricity.

The Turkish Ministry of Treasury and Finance announced that a draft bill to establish a legal framework for crypto assets in the country is ready as per the report from sabah. Deputy Minister Sakir Ercan Gül said that the crypto law would be submitted to Turkey’s unicameral legislature, The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM), at the start of the next legislative year in October 2021.

How do authorities dispose of confiscated cryptocurrency mining rigs? In a city in Sarawak, Malaysia, authorities got rid of 1,069 rigs at once by crushing them with a steamroller, Vice reports. According to Malaysian publication Dayak Daily, the PCs were confiscated over six raids conducted between February and April this year. Sarawak Energy Berhad, the electric utility company of the Malaysian province, is accusing the mining operators of stealing electricity for their activities.

Bitcoin is a highly volatile cryptocurrency with a track record of “boom and bust” cycles – when its price soars and then crashes back to earth.

The environmental cost is too high to make crypto a good choice for anyone who cares about the planet, says Tara Shirvani.

Bitcoin is certainly the undisputed leader in the world. But that does not prevent some from criticizing Bitcoin for its lack of application. Indeed, compared to other cryptos like Ethereum which have created a real ecosystem, Bitcoin remains… only a means of payment. But that could quickly change.

The wallet lay dormant for almost a decade.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of crypto exchange FTX, said in an interview with the Financial Times that acquiring Goldman Sachs or CME Group was "not out of the question" should FTX grow big enough. "If we are the biggest exchange, [buying Goldman or CME] is not out of the question at all," Bankman-Fried told the FT.

Whale Alert, a popular cryptocurrency-tracking Twitter bot, has deducted a Bitcoin wallet which has been inactive for more than nine years.

Crypto Twitter has exploded with talk that Apple will soon announce a Bitcoin purchase in the billions of dollars.