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MicroStrategy has purchased an additional 1,914 bitcoins
With only a day left of the year, MicroStrategy announced the company has purchased another batch of bitcoin.
Laszlo Dobos 1 min read
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Thailand’s small entrepreneurs tapped into lucrative Bitcoin mining–buying up rigs from China
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Adoption
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Rampant dollar printing has skewed how people perceive Bitcoin volatility, but Pompliano says using the dollar to measure Bitcoin is flawed.
Adoption
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This is the most attention on Twitter that Bitcoin has received in its history.
Analysis
Bitcoin, Ethereum beat gold in 2021, big time
Bitcoin and Ethereum broke their previous all-time-high in 2021, appreciating by 71.8 and 456 percent respectively.
Regulation
This is how the central bank can bar Russians from buying Bitcoin
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Crime
FBI looks to return $190 million in Bitcoin seized from alleged Sony Life embezzler
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Analysis
Less than 1% Bitcoin addresses control 27% of its total supply
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