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Regulators in China's Sichuan province are gathering information on cryptocurrency mining, potentially leading to a full crackdown on the practice.

Chinese Officials Are Investigating Crypto Mining Operations

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new announcement by the Chinese government, the country is looking to crack down on cryptocurrency mining.

China Announces Huge Crackdown on Cryptocurrency Mining

By Victor Tangermann

CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to argue that top Bitcoin miners should reveal how much renewable energy they are using.

Elon Musk: Bitcoin Miners Should Prove They’re Using Green Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new cryptocurrency called STOPELON is dedicated to raising awareness surrounding Tesla CEO Elon Musk's extraordinary influence on the crypto market.

New Cryptocurrency Called $STOPELON Is Dedicated to Bashing Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

China has banned any financial institutions and payment companies from doing any business related to cryptocurrencies.

China Bans Banks From Using Cryptocurrency, Causing Worldwide Crash

By Victor Tangermann

During the week since Musk's announcement, almost every mainstream cryptocurrency has plummeted in value, from Bitcoin to Dogecoin.

Cryptocurrency Has Absolutely Tanked Since Elon Musk’s Bitcoin Announcement

By Jon Christian

Tesla chief Elon Musk is now officially the company's "Technoking," according to an official filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Elon Musk: Tesla Immediately Suspending All Bitcoin Car Purchases

By Jon Christian

Cryptocurrency Is Now Worth More Than All US Currency in Circulation

By Tony Ho Tran

"To clarify speculation, Tesla has not sold any Bitcoin," Musk corrected himself in a early Monday morning tweet. But Bitcoin dropped in value anyways.

Elon Musk Implies Tesla Is Selling Its Bitcoin, Causing Huge Price Drop, Then Says Actually It’s Not

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't afraid of the Securities and Exchange Commission coming after him for tweets about the cryptocurrency dogecoin.

Dogecoin Creator Said Elon Musk Is a “Self-Absorbed Grifter”

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has lost a considerable amount of his wealth, more than $20 billion, since he made his appearance on Saturday Night Live.

Elon Musk Has Lost $20 Billion Since Hosting “SNL”

By Victor Tangermann

A new cryptocurrency called Chia, founded by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen, is promising to make mining cryptocurrencies at home a whole lot easier.

New Cryptocurrency Kills Your Hard Drive to Mine New Coins

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin won't magically become environmentally friendly over night. In fact, making Bitcoin sustainable would be incredibly difficult.

It Would Be Incredibly Hard to Make Bitcoin Sustainable, Experts Say

By Victor Tangermann

"Working with Doge devs to improve system transaction efficiency," Musk tweeted, referring to Dogecoin. Its value soared as a result.

Dogecoin Spikes After Elon Tweets About Helping Its Developers

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the car company would suspend car purchases using Bitcoin. The market reacted negatively.

Bitcoin Loses Enormous Amount of Value After Elon’s Flip Flop

By Victor Tangermann

After Elon Musk announced Tesla would no longer sell Bitcoin or accept it for car payments, crypto investors are furious over perceived manipulation.

Bitcoin Fans Are Absolutely Furious at Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

In a poll posted to Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk asked his millions of followers if his car company should start accepting the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

Elon Musk Hints Tesla Might Soon Accept Dogecoin

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reiterated that people should be cautious with how they approach investing in cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin.

Elon Musk Isn’t So Sure About Dogecoin: “Invest With Caution”

By Victor Tangermann

A new bill in front of the New York state senate would impose a three-year ban on all crypto mining to take stock of its environmental impacts.

New York May Ban All Bitcoin Mining

By Dan Robitzski

Charlie Munger, vice chairman of the Warren Buffett-led investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, had no kind words to spare for Bitcoin.

Warren Buffet Associate Calls Bitcoin “Disgusting and Contrary to the Interests of Civilization”

By Victor Tangermann

Wall Street is warning that the value of Bitcoin could soon fall off a cliff, as CNBC reports.

Analyst Predicts 50 Percent Drop in Bitcoin Value

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla Just Sold a Large Amount of the Bitcoin It Just Bought

Tesla Just Sold a Large Amount of the Bitcoin It Just Bought

By Victor Tangermann

The value of fell down to just below $50,000, the first time it did so since early March. Analysts suggest it could be related to Biden's capital gains tax.

Bitcoin Crashes, Wiping Over $200 Billion Off Crypto Market

By Victor Tangermann

A genetic sequencing startup is putting famed geneticist George Church's own DNA for sale as an NFT.

A Harvard Scientist Is Selling His Genetic Code as an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous identity masking Bitcoin's creator or creators, has enough of the crypto to be the world's 19th richest person.

Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakomoto Is Now One of the World’s Wealthiest People

By Dan Robitzski

On the holiest of pot smoking days, joke-but-not-actually-a-joke cryptocurrency Dogecoin hit 42 cents, or $0.420, as Bloomberg reports.

Dogecoin Hits $.420

By Victor Tangermann

Dogecoin is now worth $40 billion, CNBC reports, after values skyrocketed, adding $20 billion in value in just 24 hours.

Dogecoin Is Spiking and People Are Losing Their Minds

By Victor Tangermann

A single pixel, a part of an NFT by digital artist Pak, sold for $1.36 million worth of Ether at auction house Sotheby's.

Artist Sells NFT of Single Pixel for $1.7 Million

By Victor Tangermann

They were meant to revolutionize the art collection market — but the prices of non-fungible tokens or NFTs are crashing right now.

Not Very Surprisingly, NFT Prices Are Now Crashing

By Victor Tangermann

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel suggested during a virtual seminar that China may use its centralized digital currency as a weapon against the US dollar.

China Could Use Bitcoin as a Weapon Against the US, Billionaire Warns

By Victor Tangermann

A man from Missouri was just sentenced to 12 years in prison after he repeatedly tried to buy chemical weapons with Bitcoin.

Man Sentenced for Buying Chemical Weapons With Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

A man referred to by the BBC as "Sebastian" lost over half a million dollars after falling for a Elon Musk-related Bitcoin giveaway scam.

Man Loses Half a Million Dollars in Elon Musk Reply “Crypto Giveaway” Scam

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto scammers are publishing apps that imitate real bitcoin wallet companies to scam crypto owners out of their savings.

Man Downloads Wrong App, Losing $600,000 in Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

Celebrity humanoid robot Sophia just sold a digital artwork as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $688,888, as Reuters reports.

Humanoid Robot Sophia Sells 12 Second Video NFT for Almost $700,000

By Victor Tangermann

Digital artist Beeple, otherwise known as Mike Winkelmann, decided to sell his share of $53 million in ether he got for selling an NFT.

The Guy Who Sold a $69 Million NFT Thinks NFTs Are Pretty Dumb

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto fan Cameron Winklevoss says that the NFT fad is going to "liberate art." This whole exercise is getting exhausting.

Crypto Titan Makes Grandiose, Nonsense Claim That NFTs “Liberate” Art

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla has officially started to accept Bitcoin as payment for its vehicles in the US, according to CEO Elon Musk.

You Can Now Officially Buy a Tesla With Bitcoin

By Victor Tangermann

Brooklyn-based film director Alex Ramírez-Mallis's NFT called "One Calendar Year of Recorded Farts" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

A Man Just Sold Something Truly Horrible as an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

Toilet paper maker Charmin decided to get in on the NFT trend and put up a series of uninspired JPGs and GIFs for sale.

Charmin Debuts Toilet Paper NFTs

By Victor Tangermann

Contemporary artist Krista Kim sold her "Mars House," a virtual piece of real estate, for 288 ether, worth over half a million dollars, as an NFT.

Architect Sells Rendered 3D House as $500,000 NFT

By Victor Tangermann

NFTs prove ownership over a piece of digital art. But will they survive when the exchange that sold them shutters?

NFTs Have a Huge Persistence Problem

By Victor Tangermann

An original by world famous street artist Banksy was lit on fire during a livestream — and promptly sold for $380,000 worth of Ethereum as an NFT.

Blockchain Company Sets Priceless Banksy Painting on Fire to Create an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk isn't selling his song about NFTs in the form of an NFT after all.

Elon Musk Says His Techno Song NFT Isn’t For Sale After All

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk uploaded a techno track about NFTs to his Twitter account to sell it "as an NFT."

Elon Musk Says He’s Selling a Techno Song About NFTs as an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

Hackers have already started stealing NFTs, the blockchain-based art credentials that give a buyer original ownership over a digital piece of art.

Hackers Are Already Stealing NFTs

By Victor Tangermann

Technology research group MERL Tech investigated the lofty claims of 43 blockchain startups. In a new report, the group claims none of them delivered.

Wait, How Do You Pronounce “NFT”?

By Tony Ho Tran

A non fungible token by digital artist Mike Winkelmann, or "Beeple," has sold for an astonishing $69 million at world-renowned auction house Christie's.

An NFT Painting Just Sold For $69 Million

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates told The New York Times that Bitcoin is "not a great climate thing."

Bill Gates Says That Bitcoin Sucks

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter early Wednesday morning to post a meme about the alternative cryptocurrency Dogecoin, sending it soaring by 25 percent.

Single-Word Elon Musk Tweet Sends Crypto Dogecoin Soaring

By Victor Tangermann

Nevada's governor wants to establish innovation zones that'll give tech companies the ability to establish laws—and one crypto frim is interested.

Nevada Just Letting a Crypto Firm Run Entire Town as “Innovation Zone” (?!?)

By Tony Ho Tran

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't afraid of the Securities and Exchange Commission coming after him for tweets about the cryptocurrency dogecoin.

Elon Musk Invites SEC Into Battle Over Dogecoin, Because ??!??!?!??!

By Victor Tangermann

Philippines-based PDAX, Southeast Asia's largest crypto exchange, just accidentally sold bitcoin at an incredible 88 percent discount, for just $6,000.

Whoops: Crypto Exchange Accidentally Sells Bitcoin at 88% Discount

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin fell 11 percent over the weekend — and that could be in large part due to a tweet by Elon Musk and a comment by Treasury Secretary Janet Yelle.

Bitcoin Falls 11 Percent After Saucy Elon Musk Tweet

By Victor Tangermann

The US Department of Justice indicted three state-backed North Korean hackers for stealing a massive pile of cryptocurrency.

WANTED: Three North Korean Hackers For Trying to Steal $1.3B In Crypto

By Dan Robitzski

Hidden in Tesla's 2020 annual report was an announcement that the electric carmaker will soon accept Bitcoin as payment for its electric vehicles.

Tesla Reveals Plan to Sell Cars With Bitcoin

By Victor Tangermann

Janet Yellen, Biden's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, suggests that it's time to crack down on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

Top Biden Appointee Suggests Cracking Down on Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

The Iranian government is shutting down some 1,6000 cryptocurrency mining operations after several major power outages sweeped the country.

Iran Blames Bitcoin For Massive Electric Grid Blackouts

By Victor Tangermann

Programmer Stefan Thomas has thousands of Bitcoin tucked away, but he forgot his password and only has two guesses left before he loses it forever,

Man Has Only Two Password Guesses Left to Recover $236 Million in Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

Bitcoin miners and PC gamers are keeping their homes warm using the heat generated by their computers, as The Wall Street Journal reports.

Bitcoin Miners Are Heating Chicken Coops With Their Rigs

By Victor Tangermann

Man Accidentally Buried $275 Million of Bitcoin in Landfill

Man Accidentally Buried $275 Million of Bitcoin in Landfill

By Victor Tangermann

According to Russian state-owned news, hired assassins are taking cryptocurrencies as payment for their crimes making them extremely difficult to track.

Russia Complains That Assassins Are Getting Paid in Cryptocurrencies

By Victor Tangermann

Responding to writer Ben Mezrich, who said that he's "never turning down getting paid in bitcoin again" in a Friday tweet, Musk replied with "me neither."

Elon Musk Says He Would Take a Salary in Bitcoin

By Victor Tangermann

The Russian oil company Gazpromneft built a Bitcoin mining facility in its Siberian oil field to make use of energy from excess gases.

Russian Oil Company Builds Bitcoin Farm in Siberia

By Dan Robitzski

The Justice Department seized $1 billion worth of bitcoin after analysts found about 70,000 bitcoins were taken out of a Silk Road-related account.

US Government Seizes $1 Billion in Silk Road Bitcoin

By Victor Tangermann