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ForkLog 8 04.12.2020

Bitcoin miners’ revenues hit a yearly high as November receipts rise 50%

As the price of the leading cryptocurrency rose, Bitcoin miners' November revenues hit a yearly high.

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ForkLog 7 03.12.2020

Cuba Turns to Bitcoin Amid U.S. Sanctions

Cubans have increasingly turned to cryptocurrencies after the tightening of U.S. sanctions. Deutsche Welle reports this.

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ForkLog 18 03.12.2020

Bitcoin’s oldest mining pool immortalises bullish newspaper headline in a block

On 3 December, the oldest mining pool SlushPool immortalised in block #659678 of the Bitcoin network a Reuters headline 'Dollar plummets on U.S. stimulus hopes; Bitcoin hits a new high'.

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ForkLog 12 02.12.2020

Opinion: In Bitcoin, value transferred per second matters more than transactions per second

Blockstream's chief strategy officer Samson Mow says it is a mistake to focus on Bitcoin's low throughput. He regards the volume of value transferred as the more important metric.

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ForkLog 18 02.12.2020

Bitmain ends funding for Bitcoin Core developers

The cryptocurrency mining equipment manufacturer Bitmain has halted funding for several Bitcoin Core developers, according to Bitcoin Core developer Jonas Schnelli.

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ForkLog 31 02.12.2020

Ukrainian Parliament backs bill on virtual assets in first reading

On 2 December, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine backed in principle the bill on virtual assets, regulating cryptocurrency operations within the country.

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ForkLog 21 02.12.2020

65% of PayPal customers willing to use Bitcoin as a payment method

65% of PayPal customers say they are willing to pay with Bitcoin for goods and services at 28 million points of sale, according to a survey by Mizuho Securities USA.

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ForkLog 23 02.12.2020

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Sees Bitcoin as a Global Market Asset

The emerging class of cryptocurrency assets could eventually become a global market, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink acknowledged.

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ForkLog 154 01.12.2020

Coinbase explains how it helped MicroStrategy invest $425 million in Bitcoin

MicroStrategy, the analytics software provider, used the broker service of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to buy Bitcoin for $425 million. The exchange itself reported this.

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ForkLog 7 30.11.2020

JPMorgan sees new wave of Bitcoin selling by algotraders

Quantitative crypto funds played a major role in the sharp drop in Bitcoin on November 25-26 and may return to this practice in the near future. This view was expressed by JPMorgan's chief strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, Bloomberg reports.

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ForkLog 21 30.11.2020

Ripple says the era of Bitcoin maximalism is over

It is clear that Bitcoin will not remain the only cryptocurrency, and the era of maximalism toward it has passed, says Ashish Birla, general manager of RippleNet.

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ForkLog 8 30.11.2020

Opinion: Biden Should Integrate Bitcoin Into the U.S. Financial System

The Biden administration, instead of creating a digital dollar modeled on China, should focus on integrating Bitcoin into the U.S. financial system. This is the view of Niall Ferguson, the former Harvard and Oxford history professor and now a senior research fellow at Stanford.

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