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Bitcoin is the Internet: Kurt Wuckert Jr joins Mapping The Course show
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10 July, 2021

Bitcoin is the Internet: Kurt Wuckert Jr joins Mapping The Course show

CoinGeek’s Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. was a guest on the Mapping The Course show, giving his views on the...
CoinGeek Zurich expert panel debates ‘real value’ of Bitcoin and digital assets
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10 July, 2021

CoinGeek Zurich expert panel debates ‘real value’ of Bitcoin and digital assets

On Day 3 of the CoinGeek Conference in Zurich, Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy Nguyen chaired a panel discussion on...
Iranian block reward miners ordered to stop all mining amid energy shortages
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10 July, 2021

Iranian block reward miners ordered to stop all mining amid energy shortages

The instruction came from first vice president of Iran Eshaq Jahangiri, who said all of the country’s licensed mining companies...
Jamaica central bank to begin digital currency pilot in weeks
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10 July, 2021

Jamaica central bank to begin digital currency pilot in weeks

The central bank of Jamaica is to begin rolling out its central bank digital currency from August, becoming one of...
SEC charges 3 linked to Long Blockchain Corp insider trading
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9 July, 2021

SEC charges 3 linked to Long Blockchain Corp insider trading

Three individuals connected to Long Blockchain Corp–formally known as Long Island Iced Tea–have been charged by the SEC for insider...
The CoinGeek Pulse Episode 51: $70M BTC ransom, ‘Bitcoin King’ arrested and blockchain updates from around the world
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9 July, 2021

The CoinGeek Pulse Episode 51: $70M BTC ransom, ‘Bitcoin King’ arrested and blockchain updates from around the world

REvil, a ransomware group linked to Russia, deployed a malicious software update that hit Kaseya, compromising more than a million...