The digital currency, which employees have reportedly dubbed “Zuck Bucks,” will be aimed at use in the metaverse. Social media giant Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is reportedly planning to introduce virtual currency as well as lending services to apps it owns, with Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger potentially being among those impacted.  According to a…

Szabo explained the history of philosophical and technical work by the cypherpunks that led up to the invention of Bitcoin at the Bitcoin 2022 conference. Computer scientist and cryptographer Nick Szabo spoke on the Bitcoin 2022 conference’s main stage today to shed light on the history preceding the invention of Bitcoin. Unbeknownst to many, Bitcoin…

Kevin O’Leary argued Wednesday that good policy will open the floodgates of capital to the crypto space. During his Bitcoin 2022 keynote, he touted separate Congressional bills from Senators Lummis and Hagerty. O’Leary also criticized a proposed carbon audit policy from the SEC but said it could end up paving the way for renewables in…

Adding Bitcoin to their balance sheet has been highly rewarding for institutions that have gone that way. Michael Saylor, the CEO of MicroStrategy, has said that his company has no regret in choosing Bitcoin over gold Bitcoin is better for MicroStrategy than gold could have been According to Bloomberg Intelligence’s James Seyffart, Saylor made the…

American media company and business magazine Forbes has named Changpeng Zhao and Brian Armstrong as two of the world’s richest crypto billionaires this year. CEO of Binance tops Forbes wealthiest crypto billionaires list In a report published by Forbes 5th of April, there was an exclusive list of 19 of the world’s billionaires whose net worths are…

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez advocated for the election of pro-bitcoin officials in a speech opening Bitcoin 2022. “The next president of the United States has to be a pro-bitcoin candidate,” said Suarez.  Suarez joked that perhaps he could be that presidential candidate in the future. “I thought, ‘how can I go bigger, and I thought…

The Bitcoin 2022 conference is being held in Miami, welcoming thousands of cryptocurrency enthusiasts from around the world, as Miami seeks to cement itself as one of the top cryptocurrency hubs in the US.  Miami has attracted crypto supporters from all corners of the globe, with the Bitcoin 2022 conference providing a space for these…

The average value and volume of transactions conducted on the BTCM platform increased by 48% and 118% in 2021, with the average daily orders increasing by 42%. The crypto market is maturing and is no longer driven by speculation, according to a new report from BTC Markets (BTCM). According to the report by the Australian…

In the fourth survey about crypto adoption ran in Norway by Arcane Research and Ernst & Young (EY) in 2018, they find that the industry is booming in the country with the levels of ownership that have doubled from 5% to 10%. Moreover, bitcoin miners seem to be attracted to several traits of the country….

Crypto hedge fund veteran Su Zhu thinks widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies is inevitable as macro events accelerate use-case scenarios for blockchain technologies. In a new episode of the Uncommon Core podcast, the CEO and CIO of cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital says that one consequence of the US-led sanctions against Russia for invading Ukraine might be…