Bitcoin Stories for 2021

A DAO Wants To Make Blockbuster a Decentralized Film Streaming Service 34
Centralized Crypto Exchanges Saw Over $14 Trillion in Trading Volume this Year 32
SEC Rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin Trusts 36
Decentralized Exchanges Saw Over $1 Trillion in Trading Volume This Year 15
US Returns $154 Million In Bitcoins Stolen By Sony Employee 37
Stablecoin Supply Grew By 388% this Year, Driven by DeFi and Derivatives 39
Bitcoin's 'One Percent' Controls 27% of All Circulating Coins, Study Finds 73
RadioShack Announces Ambitious New Cryptocurrency Exchange 104
US Regulators Flag Climate Change, Stablecoins As Potential Systemic Risks 70
Fed's Powell Says He Doesn't See Cryptocurrencies as 'Financial Stability Concern' 66
Why Google Has Sat on the Web3 Sidelines 56
Bitcoin Could Become 'Worthless,' Bank of England Warns 271
What Is Web3 and Why Should You Care? 113
Hard Drive With 7,500 Bitcoin Buried in Landfill. Can It Be Dug Up? 198
Foreign Policy magazine: 'Bitcoin Failed in El Salvador.' Is the Answer More Bitcoin? 100
Visa Launches Crypto Consulting Services 18
Ubisoft Becomes First Major Gaming Company To Launch In-Game NFTs 48
The CIA Is Deep Into Cryptocurrency, Director Reveals 39
Self-Described Bitcoin Creator Must Pay $100 Million In Suit 84
Bitcoin, Ether, Other Cryptocurrencies Suddenly Drop More Than 16% 105
Really Stupid 'Smart Contract' Bug Let Hackers Steal $31 Million In Digital Coin 55
Goldman Sachs, Other Wall Street Banks Exploring Bitcoin-Backed Loans 56
Crypto CEOs Will Testify Before US House Panel 50
Meta Allows More Cryptocurrency Ads 32
AMC, Sony Will Hand Out NFTs To 'Spider-Man' Advance Ticket Buyers 30
Crypto Miners in Kazakhstan Face Bitter Winter of Power Cuts 135
Europe Must Ban Bitcoin Mining To Hit the 1.5C Paris Climate Goal, Say Swedish Regulators 222
Virtual Real Estate Plot Sells for Record $2.4 Million 72
Crypto Oversight Road Map Is Set by US Banking Regulators 10
India To Propose Prohibiting All Private Cryptocurrencies 58
China's Exiled Crypto Machines Fuel Global Mining Boom 64
El Salvador Plans 'Bitcoin City' Powered by a Volcano, Financed by Bitcoin Bonds 69
Texas Plans To Become the Bitcoin Capital, Vulnerable Power Grid and All 119
Canadian Police Arrest Teen For Stealing $36.5 Million In Cryptocurrency 18
US Government Seizes $56 Million in Crypto from BitConnect's 'Number One Promoter' 14
Crypto Co-stars With Hollywood 24
Crypto Bid To Buy US Constitution Print Raises Millions 67
BlockFi Faces SEC Scrutiny Over High-Yield Crypto Accounts 27
Bank-Only Stablecoins Limit Innovation, Fed's Waller Says 16
Brave Browser Now Includes a Built-In Crypto Wallet 15
China Takes Aim at 'Extremely Harmful' Crypto Mining Once Again 147
Nigeria's E-Naira Lures About Half a Million People Weeks After Its Launch 10
Will Cryptocurrency Face a Quantum Computing Problem? 68
Coinbase Goes Social by Letting Users Tout Crypto Allocations 16
$76 Billion a Day: How Binance Became the World's Biggest Crypto Exchange 46
Bitcoin's Taproot Upgrade Should Occur On Saturday 115
Miami Will Start Giving Some of Its Residents Free Bitcoin: Mayor Suarez 29
Bezos-Backed Real Estate App To Accept Bitcoin as Payment 27
New York's Incoming Mayor Says Crypto Should Be Taught In Schools 166
A Bitcoin Mine In Navajo Nation Flares Tensions 172
Tim Cook Has Invested in Cryptocurrency Personally, But Apple Has No Immediate Plans To Do So. 34
Kroger Gets Hit by Fake Crypto News 24
Incoming New York Mayor Eric Adams Vows To Take First Three Paychecks In Bitcoin 59
Binance Says It's Trying To Hunt Down the Squid Game Crypto Token Scammers 22
New NYC Mayor Eric Adams Wants the City To Have Its Own Cryptocurrency 59
Kleiman v. Wright: $65 Billion Bitcoin Case Has Started 77
US Regulators Say Issuers of 'Stablecoins' Should Be Policed Like Banks 76
Shiba Inu Passes Dogecoin as No. 10 Cryptocurrency 62
Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million 49
Stablecoins Are a Compelling Payment Option, But They Need To Be Regulated, Biden Administration Report Says 49
Bitcoin White Paper's 13th Anniversary Celebrated with Decentralized Pizza (and Gilbert Gottfried) 72
Global Regulators Back Tougher Rules To Prevent Criminals From Using Crypto 79
Bitcoin Back Over $60K As El Salvador Buys 420 BTC 93
Mark Cuban's Dallas Mavericks Giving Away Bitcoin for 48 Hours 18
Teen Bought Google Ad for His Scam Website and Made 48 Bitcoins Duping UK Online Shoppers 37
US Regulators Exploring How Banks Could Hold Crypto Assets 43
Mastercard To Allow Banks To Offer Crypto Credit and Debit Cards 36
Bitcoin's Price Crashed 87% On Binance.US Thanks To a Bug 21
Walmart Shoppers Can Now Buy Bitcoin at 200 Kiosks in Its Stores 49
Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High Above $65K 134
Why a Bitcoin ETF On Futures Might Not Be Such a Good Idea 36
US Treasury Says It Tied $5.2 Billion in BTC Transactions To Ransomware Payments 36
Bitcoin Comes To the Big Board 91
The Ups and Downs of Bitcoin's First Month in El Salvador 55
Bitcoin Tops $60,000, Rising 50% in 24 Days 103
Jack Dorsey Says Square May Build Open-Source Bitcoin Mining System 31
Tether Fined $41 Million For Lying About Fiat Currency Backing 71
Valve Bans Blockchain Games and NFTs On Steam 33
Hundreds of Banned Crypto Miners Were Siphoning Power at China's State Firms 42
SEC Said To Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs As Deadline Looms 28
Ted Cruz Says Bitcoin Mining Can Fix Texas' Crumbling Electric Grid 289
$7 Trillion Worth of Stocks Are Exposed to Crypto Risks 43
Vladimir Putin Says He Accepts Crypto as a Legitimate Currency For Making Payments 45
US Overtakes China as Biggest Bitcoin Mining Hub After Beijing Ban 46
Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support 5
Could Bitcoin Mining Really Provide Crucial Demand For Nuclear Power? 154
White House Weighs Wide-Ranging Push For Crypto Oversight 50
Mnuchin Says Crypto Stablecoins 'Shouldn't Be Like Casino Chips' 55
US Presses Crypto Exchanges To Block Ransomware Profits 28
Bitcoin Set To Become Legal Payment in Brazil 60
Bug Puts $162 Million Up For Grabs, Says Founder of DeFi Platform Compound 36
Hackers Bypass Coinbase 2FA To Steal Customer Funds 13
Paying For Taco Bell With Dogecoin May Be Soon Be a Reality 66
As Environmental Criticism Mounts, Bitcoin Miners Eye Nuclear Power 158
A Cryptocurrency-Trading Hamster Beats Warren Buffett's Performance - and the S&P 500 85
26,000 and Counting: America is Installing Hundreds More Bitcoin ATMs Each Week 132
Old Coal Plant Is Now Mining Bitcoin For a Utility Company 59
China Says All Cryptocurrency-related Transactions Are Illegal and Must Be Banned 152
Twitter Adds Bitcoin Tipping, Pushes Further Into NFTs 18
Robinhood Will Start Testing Crypto Wallets Next Month 16
The Fed Is Evaluating Whether To Launch a Digital Currency and In What Form 53
SEC's Gensler Doesn't See Cryptocurrencies Lasting Long 175
Coinbase Drops Lend Product Plans After SEC Lawsuit Threat 27
What Happened After El Salvador Adopted Bitcoin as Legal Currency? 123
US To Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions 27
Over 60 South Korean Crypto Exchanges Set To Suspend Services Next Week 18
US Judge Sentences Crypto Hedge Fund Scammer To Over Seven Years In Prison 28
China Intensifies Hunt For Cryptocurrency Miners In Hiding 33
AMC Theaters Will Accept Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoin 31
Walmart Says Report That It Will Be Accepting Litecoin as Payment is False 12
El Salvador's Bitcoin Rollout Marred by Technical Glitches in Digital Wallets 105
Mastercard Acquires CipherTrace To Boost Crypto Security and Compliance 5
County IT Supervisor Mined Bitcoin At the Office, Prosecutors Say 85
Is Lending Your Bitcoins a Security? 61
The Disastrous Voyage of Satoshi, the World's First Cryptocurrency Cruise Ship 387
Salvador Street Protest Breaks Out Against Bitcoin Adoption 75
Sometimes Dismissed as a Fad in Advanced Economies, Crypto Holds More Appeal in Countries With a History of Financial Instability 70
El Salvador Bought $21 Million of Bitcoin as it Becomes First Country To Make It a Legal Currency 71
Skepticism Grows Over El Salvador's Pioneering Plan to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender 89
Twitter For iOS Beta Lays Groundwork For Bitcoin Tips 29
The Original 'Doge' Meme Sold as an NFT for $4 Million 61
Why the Solana Cryptocurrency Is Surging 55
Hackers Steal $29 Million From Crypto-Platform Cream Finance 35
Jack Dorsey's Square Wants to Build a Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Exchange 48
Cuba's Government Will Recognize - and Regulate - Cryptocurrencies 31
Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant Secretly Launched in Alberta, Tapping Dormant Gas Well 62
Parents of Teens Who Stole $1 Million In Bitcoin Sued By Alleged Victim 48
Coinbase Slammed For Terrible Customer Service After Hackers Drain Accounts 57
The World's Second-Largest Stablecoin Is Undergoing a Massive Change 68
Visa Buys a CryptoPunk As It Takes First Steps Into 'NFT Commerce' 17
Coinbase To Invest 10% of All Future Profits In Crypto 22
Vine's Creator Is Now Working On NFT Blockchain Video Games 18
Facebook Says It Wants a 'Fair Shot' In the Crypto Payments Sphere 44
Free Clipart of a Cartoon Rock Is Selling For $300,000 As NFTs 98
Rise of Cryptocurrencies Can Be Traced To Nixon Abandoning Gold In 1971 231
Walmart Seeks Crypto Expert To Oversee Digital Currency Push 36
Cryptomining Botnet Alters CPU Settings To Boost Mining Performance 21
'The Way the Senate Melted Down Over Crypto Is Very Revealing' 112
Soccer Superstar Messi is Being Partly Paid in Crypto by PSG 46
Hackers Return Nearly Half of the $600 Million they Stole in One of the Biggest Crypto Heists 58
AMC Says It Will Accept Bitcoin as Payment for Movie Tickets by Year-end 80
Why a Waste-Coal Power Plant is 'Burning for Bitcoin' 97
The Future of Cryptocurrency Is Being Decided in Biden's Infrastructure Bill 110
EIP-1559 Has Already Burned $1 Million Worth of ETH 57
Fed Governor Waller 'Highly Skeptical' of a Fed Digital Coin 30
The IRS Has Seized $1.2 Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency This Fiscal Year 76
Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' Cryptocurrency 70
SEC Chair Calls On Congress To Help Rein In Crypto 'Wild West' 63
Amazon Denies Report of Accepting Bitcoin As Payment 45
Tether Executives Said To Face Criminal Probe Into Bank Fraud 22
Amazon's Hiring a 'Digital Currency and Blockchain' Lead, Confirms Interest in 'Modern' Payments 59
Square To Create New Bitcoin Platform for Financial Services 25
Tesla Will 'Most Likely' Restart Accepting Bitcoin As Payments, Says Musk 48
EU Plans To Make Bitcoin Transfers More Traceable 44
Mastercard Will Use the USDC Stablecoin As a Bridge Asset For Cardholders Who Want To Pay For Goods Using Cryptocurrencies 60
EU Plans To Make Bitcoin Transfers More Traceable 82
Bitcoin Crashes Below $30,000 As Cryptocurrency Free-Fall Accelerates 135
Viral Video Shows Malaysian Police Destroying 1,069 Bitcoin Mining Rigs With a Steamroller 88
More Bitcoin Miners Head to America, Partly for Cheaper Energy 70
Why China Undermines Bitcoin - as It Tests Its Own Digital Currency 86
Some Industrial Bitcoin Miners are Moving to Cheap-Energy Texas 108
South Korean Toilet Turns Excrement Into Power, Digital Currency 40
Swedish Crypto Scammer Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison 8
Bitcoin Power Plant Is Turning a 12,000-Year-Old Glacial Lake Into a Hot Tub 214
Bitcoin.org Loses in Court, Owes $48,600 to Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright 108
Summer Camp For Children Includes Classes on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies 47
After China's Crackdown on Bitcoin Mining, It's More Profitable For Everyone Else 81
Sam Altman Wants To Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency 61
Even Gold-Obsessed Indians Are Pouring Billions Into Crypto 85
SafeDollar 'Stablecoin' Drops To $0 Following $248,000 DeFi Exploit On Polygon 94
One of the Largest Owners of Bitcoin, Who Reportedly Held As Much As $1 Billion, Is Dead At 41 104
Regulators Crack Down on Crypto Exchange Binance in UK, Japan, Germany, and Ontario, Canada 41
El Salvador is Giving Away Free Bitcoin To Its Citizens 68
Blockchain.com Will Let People Use Human-Readable Usernames In Blockchain Transactions 25
South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin 77
Monero Emerges As Crypto of Choice For Cybercriminals 64
Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari Calls DOGE a Ponzi Scheme 103
Bitcoin Plunges As China's Sichuan Province Pulls Plug On Crypto Mining 102
What Happened When an Entire Town Went Full Crypto 79
El Salvador Seeks World Bank Help For Bitcoin Implementation 186
Why Quantum Computers Won't End Up Cracking Bitcoin Wallets 91
Is Bitcoin More Traceable Than Cash? 181
Cryptocurrency Miners Force Changes to Free Tiers at Docker 43
Global Banking Regulators Call For Toughest Rules For Cryptocurrencies 58
IMF Sees Legal, Economic Issues With El Salvador Bitcoin Move 133
Americans Pocketed $4 Billion In Bitcoin Profits In 2020, Analysis Reveals 79
President of El Salvador Says He is Working To Offer Bitcoin Mining Facilities With Cheap, 100% Clean and Renewable Energy From Volcanos 126
El Salvador Becomes First Country To Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Passing Law 153
El Salvador: World's First Country to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender? 83
Miami Readies For Largest Bitcoin Conference In History 47
Norton 360 Antivirus Now Lets You Mine Ethereum Cryptocurrency 66
Can a Cryptocurrency Break the Buck? 99
Iran Bans Crypto Mining After Months of Blackouts 100
UK Police Stumble Upon Bitcoin Mine While Looking For Cannabis Farm 68
GameStop Is Building An NFT Platform On Ethereum 41
Bitcoin Mining Council To Report Renewable Energy Usage 183
China Will Likely Ban All Bitcoin Mining Soon 194
Papa John's Celebrates 'Bitcoin Pizza Day' - as Price of Bitcoin Drops to $38,240 119
Cryptocurrency Miners Are Now Abusing the Free Tiers of Cloud Platforms 75
Iran Uses Crypto Mining To Lessen Impact of Sanctions, Study Finds 102
US Treasury Calls For Stricter Cryptocurrency Compliance With IRS, Says They Pose Tax-Evasion Risk 125
Bitcoin, Dogecoin See Big Drops After China Reiterates Ban On Crypto Services 185
Ethereum Staking Will Drop Power Consumption By 99% 195
Hackers Behind Colonial Pipeline Attack Reportedly Received $90 Million In Bitcoin Before Shutting Down 60
China Bans Financial, Payment Institutions From Cryptocurrency Business 98
'I Made Doge In Like Two Hours': Dogecoin Creator Says He 'Didn't Consider' Environmental Impact 83
Ethereum Founder Regifts Unsolicited DOGE Knockoffs, Donates a Billion Dollars Worth of SHIB To an Indian COVID Relief Fund 49
Australia's Wright Launches Lawsuit Over $5.7 Billion Bitcoin Haul 52
eBay Embraces NFTs 22
WallStreetBets Forum Members Targeted in Telegram Cryptocurrency Scam 26
Coinbase To Close San Francisco Offices For Good, Will Have No Headquarters 32
Dogecoin Spike Crashes Robinhood Token Trading 64
eBay Says It's Open To Accepting Cryptocurrencies In Future, Exploring NFTs 13
Ether Hits $3,000 as Bitcoin's Crypto Dominance Declines 71
Tesla Has Already Sold 10% of Its Bitcoin 81
The IRS Wants Help Hacking Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets 66
Feds Arrest an Alleged $336M Bitcoin-Laundering Kingpin 73
A Second Bitcoin Exchange Collapses In Turkey Amid Crackdown On Cryptocurrencies 52
Tesla Loses a Lot of Money Selling Cars, But Makes It All Back On Credits and Bitcoin 169
New UK Court Case Could Decide if Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto, Creator of Bitcoin 68
Why Did Bitcoin Drop 25% in Just Two Weeks? 264
Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Argue that Bitcoin Incentivises Renewable Energy 135
Over $200 Billion Wiped Off Cryptocurrency Market in a Day 146
Bank of England To Consider Digital Money Plan 46
Venmo to Allow Customers to Buy, Sell and Hold Cryptocurrencies 25
Dogecoin Traders Push To Make April 20 'Doge Day' 46
Power Plants Become Bitcoin-Mining Operations. Are There Alternatives? 223
Dogecoin Has Risen 400 Percent In the Last Week Because Why Not 118
Dogecoin Price Surpasses 10 Cents To Reach An All-Time High 43
Coinbase Opens at $102 Billion Valuation on First Day of Public Trading 66
Coinbase Sets Direct Listing Reference Price At $250/Share, Valuing the Company At As Much As $65 Billion 81
HSBC Bans Customers From Buying Bitcoin-Backer MicroStrategy Shares 25
Kraken CEO Warns a Crackdown On Cryptocurrencies May Be Coming 77
Would You Tell an Angel Investor How to Start a New Country? 59
Peter Thiel Calls Bitcoin 'a Chinese Financial Weapon' 115
Bitcoin Mining Emissions In China Will Hit 130 Million Tons By 2024 106
Signal Tests Payments Feature To Let Users Send Cryptocurrency 45
Bitcoin is Trading Near $66,000 in South Korea as 'Kimchi Premium' Returns 56
Fake App On Apple's App Store Scams User Out of 17.1 Bitcoins ($600,000) 198
Coinbase Sets Direct Listing For April 14 17
Can the NBA Make NFTs Cool? 103
Inside BitClout, the Dystopian Social Network With Big Backers and Vocal Critics 49
PayPal Launches Checkout With Crypto Service 63
Why People's Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing 189
Visa Using Stablecoin To Settle Transactions in Lure To Fintechs 18
Asset Management Giant Fidelity Files For a Bitcoin ETF 18
Tesla Now Accepts Bitcoin as Payment 89
Uniswap Unveils Version 3 In Bid To Stay DeFi's Top Dog 9
Man Loses $560,000 in Bitcoin Scam From Fake Elon Musk Account 221
Morgan Stanley Becomes First Big US Bank To Offer Its Wealthy Clients Access To Bitcoin Funds 80

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