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DECEMBER 27, 2020

The price of bitcoin has passed $28,000 on Sunday (Dec. In a continuing showing of the strength of the cryptocurrency, bitcoin is now valued at $500,000, according to the report. bitcoin has become available at over 16,000 ATMs in December of this year, a press release from East London-based cryptocurrency company BitcoinPoint says.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Pittsburgh-based GetGo joins a growing list of convenience store operators adding bitcoin ATMs, as retailers seek new ways to bring customers inside their stores.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

With transactions that become irreversible almost instantaneously, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are winning new converts — among scammers eager to avoid credit card chargebacks that can eat into their ill-gotten gains. Jack Dorsey Likes Bitcoin, But So Do Crooks . The Dark Web Likes Bitcoin, Too . For example, the U.S.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

BitMEX has announced a new Chief Compliance Officer in Malcolm Wright, who will serve in the role for 100x Group, which operates HDR Global Trading Limited, which runs BitMEX. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said he doesn’t see the value of Bitcoin as a mode of payment, cautioning it as a legitimate use, Reuters reports.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Goldman Sachs Global Head of Commodities Research Jeff Currie told CNBC the bitcoin market is maturing. “I Right now, only about 1 percent of the $600 billion invested in bitcoin is institutional, he said, CNBC reported. 11), when it fell below $31,000, just days after breaching $41,000. In other news, about 20 percent of the 18.5

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Blockchain industry stocks are on the rise as bitcoin reaches new heights, Seeking Alpha reported. Bitcoin reached higher than the $13,600 level intraday. The price of bitcoin was $13,750.90 UNICAS will begin operations this December, according to the post. 27) afternoon Eastern Time. as of 7:19 p.m.

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APRIL 22, 2020

An alleged new digital currency Ponzi scheme out of China, Antimatter Kingdom (AK), has seemingly brought in bitcoin valued at $11 million in under a single month of operation, Cointelegraph reported. It maintains that it has taken in 180,000 bitcoins, but it seems that the effort brought a figure nearer to $11 million in bitcoin.

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APRIL 13, 2023

The Bitcoin Depot ATMs will be installed in every state where the convenience chain operates — Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, California, Washington and Arizona.

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APRIL 9, 2019

China could move to ban mining for bitcoins if a draft list of activities the country’s state planner wants to ban becomes law. It has also been clamping down on bitcoin mining which has resulted in bitcoin mining operations setting up shop outside of China. The list was first made back in 2011, noted the report.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

“Mainstream acceptance of bitcoin is accelerating right now as Wall Street wakes up to its potential,” said Kevin Worth, CEO of CoinDesk, in the release. In other news, in the wake of bitcoin’s recent record high price of over $34,000, J.P. Morgan analysts said bitcoin could rise all the way to $146,000, CNBC reported.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

CIMB , a banking group that operates in countries such as Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand, has inked a deal with Ripple in order to bring the company’s blockchain technology to its SpeedSend remittance offering, Cryptovest reported. It will also reportedly work with more than one ledger technology, such as bitcoin and Ethereum.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Bitcoin ATMs have gotten a lot of press lately and it stands to reason that many in the ATM industry may be wondering if now is the right time to purchase a bitcoin ATM. Marc Grens, co-founder and president of DigitalMint, a cash-to-bitcoin providers discusses how to find the right bitcoin provider for your company.

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APRIL 12, 2022

In a move that is sure to please owners of Bitcoin ATMs, Florida legislators have voted to clarify the state's position on cryptocurrency sales. This means that soon, crypto assets can be bought and sold between two parties in the Sunshine State without fear of regulatory repercussions.

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JANUARY 20, 2019

Meanwhile, a study by data firm Chainalysis has found that bitcoin as a form of payment doubled in 2018 on darknet market sites. Bitcoin transaction volumes on darknet markets, where people can buy illegal goods, saw an increase over the entire year to reach an average of $2 million daily.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Bitcoin reached an all-time high, surging 12 percent to $23,421, more than triple its value since the start of 2020, CNBC reported on Thursday (Dec. 17), Bitcoin’s gains leveled, trading over 9 percent higher at about $22,787. A BlackRock executive said bitcoin can replace gold, per CNN. The previous record was in 2017. .

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As other stocks rebounded at the news of a breakthrough in Pfizer and BioNTech’s joint COVID-19 vaccine, bitcoin fell sharply to nearly $14,815, according to CoinDesk. By the end of the day, the stock had risen slightly, hitting $15,369.783 at 5:16 p.m. ET, but still down from the day’s starting point of $15,800. Meanwhile, New Jersey Sen.

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JULY 26, 2020

Bitcoin surpassed $10,000 on Sunday (July 26) for the first time since June, hitting $10,200, Reuters reported. Bitcoin has been negatively impacted by the pandemic over the past few months, halving for the third time in May and slicing the rewards bitcoin miners earn, per Reuters. ruled that bitcoin is money.

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JULY 3, 2019

Coinsquare, a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, has partnered up with Just Cash to allow consumers to buy bitcoin via regular, non-bank operated ATMs in the U.S.

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JANUARY 27, 2019

Business for bitcoin ATM companies seems to be booming, with Coin ATM Radar estimating that there are now 4,213 cryptocurrency ATM machines around the globe, most only offering bitcoin. And Jorge Farias, CEO of the Panama-based startup Cryptobuyer, is planning to open Venezuela’s first bitcoin ATM in Caracas next month.

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JANUARY 24, 2021

LVL, an upstart bitcoin exchange, has rolled out its own Mastercard debit card which it's taking pre-orders for, a report from CoinDesk says. The card will be linked to bitcoin and fiat accounts, and will be one of Mastercard's premium accounts, able to be used anywhere globally, CEO Chris Slaughter said, according to the report.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

German authorities are cracking down on several allegedly illicit cryptocurrency-related operations in the country. The watchdog told KKT UG CEO Adam Gramowski to cease crypto trading business in Germany back in February for reportedly operating without a trading or banking license. Movie2k.to

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MARCH 16, 2020

Guznov said per reports, “We believe there are big risks of legalizing the operations with the cryptocurrencies, from the standpoint of financial stability, money laundering prevention and consumer protection.”. The company had notified police when it saw surprising activity levels throughout many of its computers.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that he sees “no unique value” in bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, calling it a “delusion, basically,” according to a report from CNBC. Bitcoin has struggled with value after reaching a high of almost $20,000 at the end of 2017. It attracts charlatans,” Buffett said. “If

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A published report in October indicated that PayPal was eyeing acquisition possibilities for digital currency firms, among them the bitcoin custodian BitGo. PayPal and Square’s Cash App cryptocurrency purchasing spree had reportedly led to a bitcoin rally , according to a Monday (Nov. Paxos, PayPal’s partner, operates itBit.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Active bitcoin accounts are approaching the record high reached in December 2017, before the previous bitcoin peak crashed. And as of Monday, active accounts — accounts in use in the last six months — held 82 percent of all bitcoin. Account users remain confident as well, according to Bloomberg. More than 2.1

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MAY 20, 2020

In other news, France has become the first nation to test out a blockchain-operational digital euro with successful results, Banque de France announced on Wednesday (May 20). The exchange, for its part, trades ethereum and bitcoin, among other digital currencies. Meanwhile, Luno, a digital currency platform backed by Naspers Ltd.,

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AUGUST 18, 2019

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced that it has granted a charter under New York Banking Law to Bakkt Trust to operate as a limited liability trust company. Bakkt is now authorized to provide custody services for bitcoin along with the launch of physically delivered bitcoin futures contracts.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Bitcoin jumped to a one-month high as it hit $3,727 this weekend — it’s highest level since Jan. To break above the upper edge of the triangle, bitcoin must make it past $3,760, which is expected to happen sometime this week. Its 24-hour trading volume also rose to above $8 billion for the first time since Dec.

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JUNE 14, 2020

Xapo , a crypto wallet and bitcoin custodian, will no longer deal in credit card payments for digital asset purchases, according to an email from the company, as reported by CoinDesk. Xapo will also implement new restrictions on bank transfers, depending on a user’s location.

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JUNE 22, 2020

New Zealand police have frozen $90 million they say belongs to alleged bitcoin scammer Alexander Vinnik in what’s being called the country’s largest money seizure ever. Authorities also claim Vinnik operated several BTC-e accounts, including some tied to thefts from other virtual currency exchanges such as Mt.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Agustin Carstens, the general manager at the Bank for International Settlements , said that banks shouldn’t issue their own bitcoin-like tokens because it could undermine global financial stability, as well as monetary policy, according to a report by Bloomberg. Central banks do not put a brake on innovations just for the sake of it.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The CEO of a Virginia-based software firm claimed that the Federal Reserve ’s easing of its inflation approach was a factor in his decision to convert the rest of the firm’s money to bitcoin, Bloomberg reported. “We One of the more than 40 investors contended that he initially met those that run the exchange in Delhi.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

number of big crypto custodians like Anchorage, Coinbase, and a number of others, have been contacted by banks about whether they’d be willing to be like the third-party custody providers for national banks whose customers want to invest in bitcoin,” he said, according to CoinDesk. “Well, what I have heard.a

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JUNE 21, 2023

BItcoin Depot claims legal procedure was not followed. The sheriff claims his office acted appropriately in seizing cash from the machine and returning it to the victim of a ransomware scam.

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JULY 11, 2019

House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on Thursday (July 11), and his comments caused a slide in bitcoin value, which fell 7.7 Bitcoin was last down 4.5 When Facebook announced Libra on June 18, bitcoin jumped 55 percent in value in nine days, reaching almost $14,000 in value. percent, to $11,164.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Bitcoin is treated as a property, with all the normal rules of taxation applying, which means crypto is liable to be taxed 15 percent under the GST. 24) that virtual currency operator Quoine must pay damages for wrongfully reversing seven trades on the platform, The Straits Times reported.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

In other bitcoin news, Korean startup Artbloc is selling two works by David Hockney in September and will issue 8,500 tokens for “Focus Moving” and 5,000 tokens for “Pictured Gathering with Mirror,” Coindesk reported on Friday (Aug. Nevada currently has 110 bitcoin ATMs.

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