701 Results From "Bitcoin"

The value of Bitcoin has hit all-time highs, trading at above $68,000 Tuesday morning — and investors are predicting its rise isn't over yet.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Crushes All-Time Record, With JPMorgan Predicting $146,000

Financial regulators have shut down Signature Bank, which was known for letting people make deposits via crypto, in an effort to stem a wider banking crash.
Cryptocurrency

Regulators Just Shut Down a Crypto Lender to Stem a Growing Financial Disaster

Nvidia has had enough. It's calling for its customers to stop mining worthless crypto and use its cards for AI instead.
Cryptocurrency

Nvidia Wishes People Would Stop Using Its GPUs to Mine Worthless Crypto

Alex Mashinsky, CEO of anguished crypto lending firm Celsius, did NOT attempt to flee the US amid the bitcoin crash, a Celsius spokesperson clarified.
Bitcoin

Crypto Startup in Crisis Insists That Its CEO Isn’t Trying to Flee the Country

JPMorgan Chase CEO and outspoken crypto-critic Jamie Dimon said that he has no hopes in cryptocurrencies, calling Bitcoin "worthless" on Monday.
Bitcoin

As Its Price Spikes, JPMorgan CEO Says Bitcoin Is “Worthless”

A Bitcoin mining operation in Canada tried to tap a nearby unused natural gas well for power — and got busted after neighbors started complaining of noise.
Science & Energy

Bitcoin Miners Open Secret Power Plant, Get Busted

El Salvador is now the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, and Edward Snowden predicts that many more will soon follow.
Bitcoin

Edward Snowden Predicts Massive Bitcoin Adoption by Governments

The US Federal Trade Commission published a consumer alert warning the public of voice cloning scams, which seem to be on the rise.
Artificial Intelligence

FTC Warns That Scammers Are Cloning Your Relatives’ Voice To Steal Your Money

Neal Stephenson, the science fiction icon who first coined and popularized the term "metaverse," is pausing his literary career to build his own. 
Cryptocurrency

Guy Who Invented the Word “Metaverse” Building His Own Metaverse

A glitch on the prominent crypto data platform Pyth showed Bitcoin prices plummet down to just over $5,400 on Monday, but the drop never happened.
Science & Energy

Wall Street Glitch Showed Bitcoin Crashing to $5,400

A Pennsylvania-based holding company called Stronghold Digital Mining bought a coal waste power plant over the summer to power 1,800 mining computers.
Science & Energy

Bitcoin Mining Company Buys Entire Coal Power Plant

Bitcoin's value shot up above $39,000 for the first time in almost six weeks, a jump of almost 12 percent within the last 24 hours, according to CoinDesk.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Price Suddenly Shoots Up

Thanks to a recent dip in the value of Bitcoin, president Nayib Bukele is looking to cash in and announced he "bought the dip."
Bitcoin

In Response to Dip, El Salvador Buys a Bunch More Bitcoin

Just a few months after spending who knows how much on Super Bowl ads, leading cryptocurrency exchanges are now laying off thousands of employees.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Exchanges Lay Off Thousands, Months After Uber-Expensive Super Bowl Ads

Steve Davis, a SpaceX alum and the current CEO of The Boring Company, might be the first "Goon" in line for the CEO role at Elon Musk-owned Twitter.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Rumored to Be Giving Twitter CEO Job to Guy in Charge of Digging Holes in the Ground

China has declared all cryptocurrency transactions and any other related activities within its borders illegal, sending Bitcoin plummeting yet again.
Bitcoin

China Makes Crypto Transactions Illegal, Prompting Bitcoin Market Crash

Bill Gates really, really hates cryptocurrency, saying on Tuesday that virtual coins and their NFTs are "100 percent based on the Greater Fool Theory."
Cryptocurrency

Bill Gates Ruthlessly Mocks NFTs as Crypto Market Collapses

Watch out, grandma: if you hear your grandson on the phone in need of bail money, ask the voice something that only your real grandson would know.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Use Voice Cloning AI to Trick Grandma Into Thinking Grandkid Is in Jail

Chances are, if a company is developing AI systems, then it probably depends on pricey hardware from Nvidia.
Artificial Intelligence

If AI Is a Gold Rush, Nvidia Is Selling Shovels

Elon Musk once again criticized Bitcoin, arguing that the underlying technology of Dogecoin is better suited for scalability.
Bitcoin

Man Sues Parents of Kids Who Stole His Bitcoin