The Bitcoin (BTC) price in Nigeria has soared well above market levels amid continued efforts by the central bank to push its citizens towards digitized cash. At the time of writing, the price of 1 BTC on the Nigerian NairaEX crypto exchange is currently 17.8 million Naira, which is equivalent to a whopping $38,792.

Though the prevalence of bitcoin miners using nuclear energy at scale could take years to materialize, several players in the space are bullish on the prospect. Volatility around bitcoin and the general slow pace of movement in an often risk-averse power industry could serve as barriers though, industry participants said.

ChatGPT is a powerful new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, capable of problem-solving, advanced coding, answering complicated questions and now spelling out the end of fiat currencies. Parman, a Bitcoin self-custody mentor and writer, taught ChatGPT that Bitcoin BTC tickers down would bring about the end of government-issued fiat currencies and shared the results in a Twitter thread.

California-based Harmony said in June it had been the target of a cyberattack that stole $100m worth of digital assets.

The Oracle of Omaha never saw a future in cryptocurrency.

Today, Bitcoin is still not widely adopted. However, 2020 and 2021 are considered a key period of validation for Bitcoin. During a bear market, investors moved away from riskier assets, but this is not the case for political institutions, which are still looking for a concrete regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies.

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX said in a report to creditors on Tuesday that about $415 million in cryptocurrency had been stolen as a result of hacks.

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A Texas university is the latest to offer a Bitcoin course for students. The course will teach Bitcoin programming. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency courses are becoming increasingly popular in colleges and universities across the United States. The latest institution to join the trend is Texas A&M University, which has announced that it will be offering a course on the "Bitcoin Protocol" to its students starting from January 17th.

Crypto exchange FTX has now recovered more than $5 billion in cash, digital assets and liquid assets so far, the company's lawyers said during a bankruptcy court hearing Wednesday.

When bitcoin was created back in 2009, no one really paid any attention to it. It was considered a pet project of a few cypher punks on the internet. Fast forward to present times and it has become a giant that has become a commonplace name and birthed an entire industry, comprising thousands of coins and projects that came from it. Cryptocurrency has become so big that at the height of the bull run in 2021 its marketcap was three trilllion dollars.

As podcaster Peter McCormack has often observed, almost everything happening has a Bitcoin angle nowadays. This might not be surprising as Bitcoin is money and money runs the world, but it is surprising how quickly Bitcoin has moved into the centre of political controversy, both in national debates and geopolitical struggles. So here are six things that happened in 2022. Six things that’ll show up again in 2023 — but in different forms and featuring different people.

So much for enthusiasts championing the decentralization of cryptocurrencies.

New York has announced a $100 million settlement with Coinbase over what state officials called significant failures in the cryptocurrency trading platform's systems for spotting potential criminal activity.

YouTuber Logan Paul responded to Coffeezilla, aka Stephen Findeisen, over accusations that he scammed CryptoZoo investors.

The Securities Commission of The Bahamas said it moved $3.5 billion from FTX's Bahamian subsidiary, FTX Digital Markets, into its own digital wallets.

The fact that Logan Paul is a celebrity and so many people follow him tells us a lot about the things wrong with humanity today. The generously labeled ‘Grifter’ has been banking on Controversy as currency from his early Vine days, to whatever scam he is trying to pull right now. Thankfully, people like youtuber Coffeezilla have spoken out against him.

The case of "where did the money go" is beginning to unravel for crypto exchange FTX as finding show ghost account held liabilities.

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A defense lawyer for Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, told a magistrate judge in the Bahamas on Monday that the former billionaire was not yet ready to agree to be extradited to the United States.