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Because society continues to eat itself, NFT whale 3F Music bought the "Charlie Bit My Finger" YouTube video as an NFT for $760,999 and will most likely have the original video removed from YouTube. Origin Protocol, which ran the auction, said in a statement the plan was to remove the…

Michael Saylor, CEO of business intelligence company MicroStrategy, has stepped up his support for Bitcoin. In a recent tweet, Saylor informed that he hosted a meeting between Bitcoin (BTC) miners in North America and the founder of Tesla, Elon Musk, on ways to promote Bitcoin sustainability and energy transparency. Yesterday…

More than a decade after Satoshi Nakamoto combined proof of work and bitcoin mining together, fallacious comparisons of “energy cost per transaction” continue to be spread by seemingly intelligent and well-researched individuals. We can trace much of the spread of this narrative back to Alex de Vries—a data scientist who…

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By Mark Hunter 1 week agoTue May 25 2021 08:36:55 Reading Time: 2 minutes Elon Musk and Michael Saylor have announced a Bitcoin Mining Council formed of some of North America’s biggest miners The Bitcoin Mining Council will “promote energy usage transparency” and “accelerate sustainability initiatives worldwide” Musk has conducted…

Once again, Elon Musk has tweeted and pushed Bitcoin’s price beyond an important resistance area, for now. At the time of writing, BTC trades at $39,022 with a 15.5% profit in the daily chart. BTC with bullish momentum in the daily chart. Source: BTCUSD Tradingview The cryptocurrency had a bloody…

Reading Time: 2 minutes An attempt to scale up Dogecoin too much will result in extreme centralization, Ethereum creator says. Elon Musk had previously revealed his plans to scale up DOGE by 900%. The best possible approach can enable scaling of up to 3x. Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin explains why…

CEO of LVMH Bernard Arnault AFP via Getty Images French fashion tycoon Bernard Arnault is the world’s richest person this Monday morning, with an estimated net worth of $186.3 billion—putting him $300 million above Jeff Bezos, who is worth $186 billion, and Elon Musk, worth $147.3 billion. Arnault’s fortune has…

Vitalik Buterin published a post on the various scalability solutions for blockchains and how increasing parameters, as suggested by Musk, are inadvisable. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, in a blog post published on May 23, offered some detailed thoughts on the scalability problem. The post is in part a refutation of…

When billionaire Elon Musk announced that Tesla would no longer accept bitcoin as payment for its electric vehicles, the price of the crypto asset tanked. In justifying this decision, Musk cited bitcoin mining’s inefficient use of electricity as well as its impact on the environment. In fact, before Musk waded…