El Salvador becomes the first country to approve Bitcoin as legal currency
Officials voted by a majority to pass the cryptocurrency law.
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DOJ recovers 63.7 Bitcoins paid out in Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack
The agency tracked down the payment through the Bitcoin public ledger.
Square may make a 'hardware wallet' for Bitcoin
Jack Dorsey tweeted about the potential project.
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UK police raided a shady Bitcoin mining facility they thought was a weed farm
The site's heat signals had officers convinced it was a cannabis factory.
PayPal and Venmo will let you send cryptocurrency to third-party wallets
Until now, users have been limited to buying, selling, holding and checking out with crypto.
Elon Musk says North American Bitcoin miners will publish their energy usage
They're hoping to standardize and promote energy usage transparency in the industry.
The US Federal Reserve begins looking into its own digital currency
The Fed wants the US to play a "leading role" in developing international standards.
Coinbase struggles with outages during cryptocurrency volatility
Elon Musk's turn against Bitcoin prompted the selloff.
Crypto exchange Binance faces US money laundering probe
The company is accused of being a major destination for illicit cryptocurrency.
Elon Musk efficiency tweet pushes Dogecoin prices up again
The tweets could be jokes, but the price changes are real.
Tesla suspends Bitcoin car purchases citing environmental impact
The 'great cost to the environment' is apparently too much.
Coinbase now lets US users pay for cryptocurrency through a PayPal account
Once you link the two accounts, you can spend up to $25,000 per day on digital currencies.
Venmo built crypto trading into its payments app
It's the latest payments company to offer crypto trading following parent PayPal and rival Cash App.
Tesla now accepts Bitcoin in the US
It will take the cryptocurrency outside the US "later this year," Elon Musk tweeted.
Coinbase fined $6.5 million over cryptocurrency trading claims
Coinbase allegedly misled buyers about trading volumes.
Teenage Twitter Bitcoin hacker will spend three years in prison
Graham Ivan Clark has pleaded guilty to 30 charges.
NFTs are both priceless and worthless
The cryptocurrency offshoot is a jumble of contradictions.
Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey launch a Bitcoin development fund
It's starting in Africa and India, even though the latter plans to ban cryptocurrency.
Mastercard will support cryptocurrency payments later this year
Only the most secure and reliable currencies will be accepted.
