Bitcoin

Milestone in monetary history? El Salvador is looking to be the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, says El Salvador President Nayib Bukele. “The Hash” team unpacks Bukele’s announcement, raising questions of whether or not bitcoin can be a valuable financial tool under authoritarian regimes.

7 giu 2021

Makara CEO and co-founder Jesse Proudman joins "First Mover" to discuss the new mobile app with a waitlist of over 20,000 people. The new app offers six thematic baskets of assets specifically weighted to bitcoin, ethereum and decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens.

7 giu 2021

The crypto markets were quiet early Monday, and BTC trading volume remained low. We hear from Nischal Shetty, of Indian crypto exchange WazirX, on his analysis and outlook.

7 giu 2021

Elon Musk's Twitter presence is pouring cold water over the crypto markets, again. Musk tweeted a meme of a couple breaking up and included a broken heart emoji and #Bitcoin, prompting many to speculate Musk is breaking up with bitcoin. The markets plunged in response. "All About Bitcoin's" host Christine Lee breaks down the data in the Chart of the Day.

4 giu 2021

Hong Kong holds a Bitcoin gathering ahead of Bitcoin Conference 2021 in Miami. State-backed Copyright Society of China launches new blockchain service. Auction house accepts ETH and BTC for physical Banksy art piece. We’ll have more on that story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of The Daily Forkast, June 4.

4 giu 2021

Bitcoin’s price fell after Elon Musk tweeted a breakup meme, adding a broken heart emoji and #Bitcoin, leading Crypto Twitter to speculate on what the Tesla CEO’s cryptic tweet means. “The Hash” panel debates whether Musk is breaking up with bitcoin, and the dangers of having self-appointed leaders in the leaderless and decentralized crypto space.

4 giu 2021

Peer-to-peer digital asset marketplace Paxful is launching a tool that will allow businesses to receive payments in bitcoin. The tool is particularly aimed at merchants who have been shut out of the traditional banking system. Paxful CEO Ray Youssef explains the use case for the new tool. Plus, the state of crypto adoption in Africa.

4 giu 2021

Bitcoin dropped to $36K today, and many are blaming the drop on Elon Musk's Twitter presence. The Tesla CEO posted a broken heart meme insinuating he was breaking up with bitcoin, but is that what's really behind bitcoin's dip? Jeffrey Wang of Amber Group joins "First Mover" to weigh in on what's driving the crypto markets.

4 giu 2021

After the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, some on Capitol Hill are wondering whether restrictions – or even an outright ban – on bitcoin are a solution for the growing problem of ransomware attacks. CoinDesk's Nik De weighs in.

4 giu 2021

The price of bitcoin is hovering around $38K, but is the upward momentum likely to last? "All About Bitcoin's" host Christine Lee looks at the data in the "Chart of the Day."

3 giu 2021