Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. The past seven days have been rather positive for Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market, which was battered the week prior to the one that just transpired.BTC rallied from $8,400 to $8,888 (as of the time of this article’s writing), tapping $9,200 on Saturday morning. Altcoins largely…
The price of the shiba inu cryptocurrency rose on Tuesday after Coinbase revealed that the meme cryptocurrency would begin trading on Coinbase Pro this week. Coinbase To Trade Shiba Inu Coinbase announced Tuesday that shiba inu (SHIB) crypto would begin trading on Coinbase Pro this week, after the listing of the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE)…
In January, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned Bitcoin in an innuendo-filled tweet that went viral on Twitter and within the media in the industry. At the time, the technologist wrote that BTC “is *not* my safe word” in a seeming attempt to rile up the crypto community.On May 1st, Musk continued his attempts to play…
Dogecoin rallied on Thursday after Elon Musk committed that he would send the meme cryptocurrency to the moon — literally. The billionaire entrepreneur tweeted that SpaceX, a space technology company he owns, would take a “literal Dogecoin to the literal moon.” The cryptic message ignored to dwell into the hows and whys, but it was…
Minutes ago, the Twitter account of Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent out a suspicious message involving Bitcoin. The message read: “I’m feeling generous because of COVID-19. I’ll double any BTC payment sent to my BTC address for the next hour…” Attached was a Segwit Bitcoin address. The message garnered thousands of likes and retweets in…
Every few months, Tesla’s chief executive Elon Musk comments on Bitcoin, Ethereum, or another cryptocurrency.In May, he commented on Bitcoin to J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series. Responding to the author’s assertions that she doesn’t understand the leading cryptocurrency, Musk wrote:“Pretty much, although massive currency issuance by government central banks is making…
Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky sat down live at Miami’s Bitcoin 2021 Conference with Yahoo! Finance for a brief discussion on Celsius, Elon, and more. With a quick question out of the gate around Elon’s latest Twitter chatter, Mashinsky didn’t hesitate to share his opinion. ‘The Crypto Tourist’ “Elon is a tourist in crypto”, Mashinsky stated,…
Strong Q2 results from Tesla have some industry observers calling it the new Bitcoin. $TSLA is the new Bitcoin — Ramp Capital (@RampCapitalLLC) July 22, 2020 Records show Bitcoin first traded for $0.003 in March 2010 on the now-obsolete BitcoinMarket.com exchange. At today’s price, that’s over 300,000,000% gains since that date. Tesla stock has some…
The Bitcoin Mining Council is back at it. The controversial initiative lead by Michael Saylor presented “the findings of its first quarterly survey focused on two important metrics: electricity consumption and sustainable power mix.” The broadcast was delivered via YouTube and open to the public. They choose to limit their reproduction in other sites, though.…
For the longest time, Bitcoin has been branded “magical internet money” by both its critics and proponents.While this moniker is mostly used in a joking context, the crypto community got an injection of magic last week when J.K. Rowling — the billionaire author behind the young-adult novel series “Harry Potter” — talked about Bitcoin for…