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Following Crypto Crash, Search for the Bottom Begins in Earnest
June 21, 2022

As bitcoin crashed well below the psychologically important $20,000 mark over the Juneteenth holiday weekend, bottoming out at levels not seen since the very beginning of the crypto bull market in November 2020, fears are growing that it will get a lot worse before it...

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El Salvador Weekly: Finance Minister Insists Bitcoin Losses Are Only on Paper
June 17, 2022

On June 10, El Salvador was down about $38.1 million on its bitcoin investment. By Friday (June 17), that number had grown to $57.6 million. That’s $19.5 million out of the Salvadoran treasury in the space of a week, thanks to a plummeting bitcoin amid...

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El Salvador Weekly: Bitcoin Experiment Is Failing Badly One Year In
June 10, 2022

Almost year ago Sunday (June 5), President Nayib Bukele announced El Salvador would make bitcoin a legal tender, on par with the U.S. dollar. With bitcoin at $36,000 on that day, things looked even better on the morning of Sept. 7, when the law went...

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El Salvador Weekly: Bitcoin’s Still a Major Sticking Point in Talks with IMF
May 27, 2022

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) dropped yet another strong hint that it won’t bail El Salvador out of coming debt payments that could lead to a default while bitcoin remains a legal tender in the Central American country. The administration of President Nayib Bukele’s legal...

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PYMNTS Blockchain Basics Series: What’s Bitcoin, and How Did It Get That Way?
May 25, 2022

So, what is bitcoin? By this time, most people know at least a little about bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, and that there is also Bitcoin the blockchain. And while we’ll get into the basics about both of those, there’s a lot more to Bitcoin’s story...

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12 Years On, Bitcoin Pizza Day Finally Sees Crypto Payments Gain Traction
May 23, 2022

Sunday was Bitcoin Pizza Day, the annual crypto industry holiday celebrating the first known use of bitcoin as a payments currency. And while it’s usually celebrated largely trying to find a pizzeria that will take crypto payments and reminding the buyer just how rich he’d...

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Location of Terra’s Bitcoin Reserve Unknown Following Transfers
May 15, 2022

Billions in bitcoin, bought as a reserve by the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a foundation set up by the failed Terra blockchain, is now untraceable after being moved to two crypto platforms, Bloomberg wrote Saturday (May 14). LFG reportedly bought $3.5 billion of bitcoin between...

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El Salvador Weekly: With Bitcoin Bond Fading, President Bukele ‘Buys the Dip’
May 13, 2022

Given the unpopularity and slender use of bitcoin as a currency in El Salvador, you’d think that President Nayib Bukele’s decision to spend another $15 million of the nation’s treasury buying more bitcoins on Monday (May 9) — right as the crypto market began to...

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Downward Spiral Points to Bigger Problem for Cryptos
May 09, 2022

There’s a lot of attention being paid to bitcoin’s collapsing price today as it dipped below $31,000. And with good reason. As recently as a week ago, bitcoin pundits were wondering if it was going to push back above $40,000. Now, they’re talking about whether...