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India's Modi says digital currencies being used to fund terror
Digital currencies need more regulation to stamp out funding for terror operations, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday at a major international forum to combat financing of extremist groups. On Friday, he went further and told delegates at the Conference on Countering Financing of Terrorism that "private currencies" posed a grave security risk.
Salvadoran president vows to buy "one #Bitcoin every day'
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, said Thursday the nation would buy one unit of the currency every day, doubling down in the face of public criticism of his embrace of the crypto money. "We are buying one #Bitcoin every day starting tomorrow," the president tweeted.
14-year-old "bitcoin millionaire" flexes fancy cars online, peeps call his bluff: "I thought it was real"
A 14-year-old "Bitcoin millionaire" flexed his fancy fleet of cars online and had folks all over the world impressed. Peeps didn't believe he was legitimate.
Three out of four bitcoin investors have lost money: study
About 75% of Bitcoin buyers have experienced losses, per a recent study, amid a crisis in the cryptocurrency sector due to a significant exchange collapse.
US seizes $3.4 bn in bitcoin stolen from Silk Road
The US government announced Monday it had seized $3.4 billion in bitcoin from a real estate developer who stole the cryptocurrency from the dark web marketplace Silk Road a decade ago.
Pick n Pay adds crypto payment options at 39 stores across SA, citizens welcome implementation
Pick n Pay customers can now use cryptocurrency to purchase groceries at till points. The Bitcoin payment option will be implemented in 39 stores in Mzansi.
In Niagara Falls, bitcoin mining brings a new roar to town
In the US border town of Niagara Falls, residents accustomed to the soothing roar of the famous waterfalls recently discovered a much less pleasant sound: the "haunting hum" of bitcoin mining farms. "The noise pollution of this industry is like nothing else that has been there," said Niagara Falls Mayor Robert Restaino in his office decorated with paintings of the famous waterfalls.
Most Salvadorans think making Bitcoin legal tender was 'failure'
More than a year after Bitcoin became legal tender in El Salvador, a new poll Tuesday showed most people in the country consider the controversial move by President Nayib Bukele as a "failure."
Former 'Generations: The Legacy actress' Letoya Makhene accused of scamming unemployed man in Bitcoin scam
Former 'Generations: The Legacy actress' Letoya Makhene has been accused of scamming an unemployed man in a Bitcoin scam. The man said she swindled him R16k.
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