To restart halted bitcoin trading, Binance had to make withdrawals more expensive

The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange has gotten a little too burdened. Binance halted bitcoin withdrawals for…

Tesla’s supply chain struggles forced it to sell off 75% of its bitcoin

Tesla’s interest in bitcoin has been decried as a distraction and a side show for the…

Bitcoin’s crash is good for the climate

As the price of bitcoin craters, the global computer network that supports it is guzzling less…

College hackers in Kenya are converting stolen money to bitcoin

A Kenyan college gang has been hacking into people’s credit cards through email phishing and using…

The biggest corporate holder of bitcoin is facing a reckoning

MicroStrategy is famous for owning more bitcoin than any other publicly-traded company. As of June 14, the…

Kenya’s energy company is offering geothermal power to bitcoin miners

Kenya’s energy production company KenGen wants to offer bitcoin mining companies its surplus geothermal power to…

What Warren Buffett gets right and wrong about bitcoin

Value investor Warren Buffett took his antipathy toward crypto to new heights over the weekend. The…

Bitcoin becomes the official currency in the Central African Republic

The Central African Republic has overtaken regional cryptocurrency front-runners such as Kenya and Nigeria to become…

​​The biggest corporate holder of bitcoin is not Square or Tesla

While at least 26 publicly traded companies hold bitcoin, just one owns more than half of…

After the Bitcoin crash, El Salvador is betting its economy on buying the dip

The price of Bitcoin has fallen 43% from its high in November 2021. El Salvador’s president…

Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Reveals Plan to Reach Venezuela’s Unbanked 2

Peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange Paxful is increasing down on establishing markets. Revealed solely to CoinDesk, the startup prepares…

Even Bitcoin is getting hit by the supply chain crisis

In the ongoing boom in bitcoin, mining companies are scrambling to mint as much of the…