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ForkLog 12 17.04.2021

UFC fighter Frankie Edgar buys Bitcoin

MMA fighter Frankie Edgar has said he bought his first cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 14 16.04.2021

CNBC host Jim Cramer sold half of his Bitcoin holdings to pay off his mortgage

The former hedge-fund manager and host of CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer, described himself as a 'renegade' and said he sold half of his Bitcoin holdings.

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ForkLog 23 16.04.2021

Developers implement Taproot activation method in Bitcoin Core

Developers implemented in the May release of Bitcoin Core the Speedy Trial activation method, which will allow miners to approve or reject the deployment of Taproot in the shortest possible time.

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ForkLog 18 15.04.2021

BlackRock chief sees little prospect for Bitcoin to become a currency

Bitcoin will not become a replacement for fiat money, but it could become a major asset class. This is the view of BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who manages $8.7 trillion in assets, as he stated in an interview with CNBC.

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ForkLog 28 15.04.2021

Ukrainian MP reveals loss of access to wallet containing 400 BTC

Ukrainian officials who declared Bitcoin holdings worth billions of hryvnias say they do not realise the trouble they’ve landed in; this was stated by Verkhovna Rada deputy David Arakhamiya.

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ForkLog 24 13.04.2021

Ex-CIA officer says the scale of illicit Bitcoin operations is exaggerated

Authorities’ perceptions of the scale of Bitcoin’s use in illicit activity are greatly distorted, and blockchain analysis will enable effective crime-fighting.

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ForkLog 16 13.04.2021

Grayscale to pay TIME in Bitcoin for a series of videos about the crypto industry

TIME magazine will release a series of videos about the bitcoin industry as part of a partnership with asset manager Grayscale, according to Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein.

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ForkLog 43 12.04.2021

MicroStrategy Board Approves Bitcoin-Based Remuneration Payout

The board of directors of the analytics-software provider MicroStrategy has approved a new framework for paying dividends in bitcoin, according to CEO Michael Saylor.

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ForkLog 45 09.04.2021

Ukrainian deputy retracts 18,000 BTC cited in his declaration

Dnipro City Council deputy Vyacheslav Mishalov, who declared 18,000 BTC for 2020, said the data were erroneous.

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ForkLog 18 08.04.2021

Billionaire Rick Caruso’s company to accept rent payments in Bitcoin.

The American development company Caruso, owned by billionaire Rick Caruso, will begin accepting Bitcoin as rent for residential and commercial real estate.

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ForkLog 33 08.04.2021

Riot Blockchain to buy 42,000 miners for $138.5 million

American mining company Riot Blockchain has signed an agreement with Bitmain to buy 42,000 Antminer S19j ASIC miners for a total of $138.5 million.

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ForkLog 78 08.04.2021

Peter Thiel Calls Bitcoin a ‘Chinese financial weapon’

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel suggested that Bitcoin could be a “Chinese financial weapon” in an attempt to weaken the U.S. dollar. He said this at an event hosted by the Richard Nixon Foundation.

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