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El Salvador bought roughly $20.9 million worth of bitcoin, one day before it formally adopts the worldâ(TM)s most popular cryptocurrency as legal tender. From a report: In a series of tweets Monday, President Nayib Bukele revealed that the country…

This week the Guardian reported that a “tumultuous few weeks” awaits El Salvador as it prepares to become the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday.

In August a research note by Bank of America enthused about the new law’s ability …

Twitter’s latest beta update introduces support for providing content creators with Bitcoin tips using the “Tip Jar” feature that Twitter introduced earlier this year. MacRumors reports: Bitcoin isn’t yet available to select as a tip option for beta us…

The legendary “Doge” meme from 2010, which portrays a shiba inu dog named Kabosu and inspired the creation of cryptocurrency dogecoin, sold for $4 million as an NFT, or non-fungible token, in June. From a report: To some, that may seem like a lot of mo…

An anonymous reader shares a report from Fast Company, written by Michael Grothaus: One of the biggest movers on the cryptocurrency market in the past 24 hours is Solana. As of the time of this writing, Solana is up almost 20% over the past day, accord…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record, written by Catalin Cimpanu: Hackers are estimated to have stolen more than $29 million in cryptocurrency assets from Cream Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that allows users to loan a…

Business Insider reports:

Jack Dorsey, one of bitcoin’s biggest advocates, is planning to build an open platform to create a decentralized exchange for bitcoin through TBD, his new business venture, according to his tweet Friday.

A decentralized exc…