'Ancient' laptop mines bitcoin: the owner will receive a profit of $ 1 in 584 million years

Many have thought about mining cryptocurrency. It turns out that this can be done even on very old computers, however, there is not much sense in such mining. The Focus publication talked about a miner who is trying to do this on a 30-year-old computer. Miner Dmitry Eliseev made an old laptop ...

Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Creator Wins Court: Now Owns $ 50 Billion In Cryptocurrency

An Australian computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of bitcoin has won a court case and is now able to hold onto tens of billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. Although he never proved in court that he really owns such an amount in cryptocurrency. The Independent writes about this. ...

The world's first bitcoin city will be built in El Salvador: there will be no taxes, and cryptocurrency will be mined with the help of a volcano

El Salvador is about to build a city called Bitcoin City. This was stated by the President of the country Nayib Bukele. What the city will look like and what residents will start to do, said the Esquire edition. According to the President, the world's first cryptocurrency city will have a rounded shape, and an exhibition complex will be located in its center ...

Asset or money: what is cryptocurrency and how safe is it

Nowadays it is difficult to find a person who has not heard about bitcoins. Everyone knows that this is a cryptocurrency and quite expensive (a little more than $ 60 thousand for 1 bitcoin). In addition, Elon Musk's company Tesla recently announced that it will allow people to buy electric cars for bitcoins. ...

Free Burritos and Thousands of Dollars in Bitcoins: Chipotle will host an unusual promotion with prizes

All you need to understand is that there might be a free burrito at the end of this game. Thrillist tells about an interesting action. To celebrate National Burrito Day on April 1st, Chipotle is running a promotion that might confuse some burrito lovers who think it's ...

Elon Musk invested $ 1,5 billion in bitcoin: pros and cons of investing in cryptocurrency

В начале 2021 курс биткоина побил все рекорды, в феврале стоимость криптовалюты впервые превысила $47 000. Но его будущее до сих пор остается предметом споров по всему миру. Что его ожидает — дальнейший рост или резкое падение — не знает…

Two attempts to guess the password remain: a man from California could lose $ 240 million

Stefan Thomas, a programmer from San Francisco, California, saved the password for the bitcoin wallet on a secure external hard drive and forgot the password from it. The wallet has 7 thousand bitcoins, which is approximately $ 240 million at the current exchange rate. The story of the programmer was told by the Meduza edition. ...

The family invested all their money in bitcoin: how they live after three years

Didi Teichuttu, his wife and three children bet on Bitcoin. In 2017, the family invested all their funds in cryptocurrency in order to make money on it in the future. How they live today and what they hope for, says CNBC. In 2017 ...

Russian paid over $ 9000 alimony with bitcoins

Bailiffs in the Kirov region found bank accounts where the debtor alimony kept his savings, and wrote off 600 thousand rubles ($ 9257) of debt in favor of his children. A resident of Kirov, who owed 600 thousand rubles in alimony to his two children, paid off in cryptocurrency, the UFSSP reported on ...

Why bitcoin can create climate chaos in the coming years

The popularity of Bitcoin could lead to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions, leading to a 2 degree Celsius rise in global temperatures by 2033, a new study finds. “Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency with strict hardware requirements,” said Randy Rollins,…

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