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...After the change, due to take place on Friday, global miners will share a total of 450 new bitcoins daily, down from 900, for verifying the latest transactions in bitcoin....
...“Ordinals are to the bitcoin blockchain what bitcoin ETFs are to bitcoin the cryptocurrency,” said CCData researcher Jacob Joseph....
...The biggest trading volumes in the bitcoin market are bitcoin against tether, the world’s largest stablecoin....
...It asks: What happens if an investor adds bitcoin to their 60/40 portfolio?...
...prices of Bitcoin may suffer as a result....
...People are buying bitcoin because people are buying bitcoin. Citigroup analyst David Glass wrote last week that nearly 70 per cent of bitcoin’s year-to-date rally could be explained by ETF flows....
...Since the start of this year, bitcoin’s price has surged more than 60 per cent....
...The upswing follows the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s decision in January to approve bitcoin exchange traded funds....
...As of this year, US investors can now purchase bitcoin via highly regulated products offered by reputable finance groups, rather than having to buy bitcoin directly on offshore crypto exchanges....
...Further reading:— Bitcoin: not for everyone (FTAV)— American Voices (The Onion)...
...In essence, Quantum Blockchain Technologies says it has discovered more efficient ways to mine bitcoin....
...This week, we’re taking a look at a reminder of bitcoin’s past.It’s easy to find glowing media coverage about bitcoin....
...What has enticed energy-intensive data centres and bitcoin miners to locate in Iceland? “It’s not exactly easy to be a farmer in Iceland”, so why are they discussing the planting of corn?...
...Bitcoin briefly passed $70,000 on Friday to set a new peak for the world’s best-known cryptocurrency before rapidly retreating in what risks becoming a hallmark of its recent rally....
...Next month an update to the bitcoin network — referred to in industry circles as the “bitcoin halving” — will halve the token’s daily supply....
...Yet, the recent surge has taken bitcoin prices far above the cost of production. For bitcoin in the past that has not been sustainable....
...Bitcoin has surged to record highs this year after US regulators approved spot bitcoin ETFs in January following a decade of rejections....
...They had said that bitcoin would be propped up by the inherent limits on its supply. The output of bitcoin “mines” halves every four years, with the next cut coming in April....
...Roaring equity markets and the popularity of a new spot bitcoin exchange traded fund powered BlackRock to record assets under management of $10.5tn and net income that rose by more than one-third....
...The scheduled plan will halve the incentives made available to miners that verify new blocks of bitcoin transactions, from the current level of 6.25 bitcoin per block to 3.125 bitcoin....
...For several years the most important trade in the bitcoin market has been transactions between bitcoin and Tether, the stablecoin....
...The run, which has set a dramatic pace even by bitcoin’s standards, has sparked comparisons with 2021, when bitcoin set its previous records following a wave of retail excitement....
..., a longtime ETF observer who has been studying bitcoin ETF trading patterns....
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