Bitcoin NFTs: What Are Ordinal NFTs and How Do You Mint One?
NFTs on Bitcoin are different from the Ethereum NFTs most people are familiar with. Here’s what you need to know.
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Signs Bitcoin May Have Bottomed: Here’s What Experts Told Us
Where will bitcoin bottom out? As investors face a crypto bear market, many are looking for signals the cryptocurrency has hit a bottom. There are no sure signs, but here's what seasoned traders look for.
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Jul 11, 2022 at 3:56 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin ATMs: What You Need to Know Before Buying Bitcoin at an ATM
Buying crypto doesn’t have to involve dealing with complicated exchanges. In some places, there are ATM machines designed specifically for facilitating transactions.
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Jun 24, 2022 at 5:41 p.m. UTC
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What Is Bitcoin Pizza Day?
In May, 2010 Laszlo Hanyecz set out to buy two large pizzas with bitcoin.
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May 16, 2022 at 3:29 p.m. UTC
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What Are BIPs and Why Do They Matter?
Since Bitcoin doesn't have centralized leadership, Bitcoin Improvement Proposals are essential for the community to discuss and approve any upgrades.
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May 12, 2022 at 6:39 p.m. UTC
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Is Bitcoin Legal?
The legality of your bitcoin activities will depend on where you are and what you are doing with it.
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Apr 27, 2022 at 8:10 p.m. UTC
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The Link Between Bitcoin and Inflation
It has been said that some investors have flocked to bitcoin in order to protect their wealth from the impact of rampant inflation. But what does that mean, exactly?
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Apr 20, 2022 at 3:23 p.m. UTC
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How Can Satoshi Nakamoto Have a Birthday? The Significance of April 5
You might hear that April 5, 1975 is the birthday of bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator. We explain the leading theory about why that date matters.
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Apr 4, 2022 at 9:21 p.m. UTC
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How Does Bitcoin Mining Work?
Bitcoins are discovered rather than printed. Computers around the world “mine” for coins by competing with each other.
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Mar 18, 2022 at 4:43 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin Mining Difficulty: Everything You Need to Know
In order to ensure bitcoin blocks are discovered roughly every 10 minutes, an automatic system is in place that adjusts the difficulty depending on how many miners are competing to discover blocks at any given time.
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Mar 18, 2022 at 1:57 p.m. UTC
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Is Bitcoin Legal in the United States?
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are regulated by an assortment of rules both at the federal and state level.
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Mar 10, 2022 at 5:19 p.m. UTC
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What Is Cloud Mining?
Cloud mining is a hands-off way of earning cryptocurrency by renting computing power from third-party sources.
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Mar 10, 2022 at 5:09 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin Mixers: How Do They Work and Why Are They Used?
Bitcoin offers pseudonymity to users by design. But in order to be completely anonymous, you’ll need to use tools like bitcoin mixers.
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Mar 8, 2022 at 3:36 p.m. UTC
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How to Use the Strike Mobile Payment App
Strike, the mobile payment app launched by Jack Mallers, lets you send money across borders cheaper than the usual wire transactions using bitcoin. Here’s what you need to know about the app.
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Mar 2, 2022 at 10:31 p.m. UTC
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What Is a Satoshi? Understanding the Smallest Unit of Bitcoin
A single bitcoin is divisible, just like dollars, and the smallest unit is called a satoshi.
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Feb 25, 2022 at 3:02 p.m. UTC
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Inversiones: qué porcentaje de cripto deberías tener en tu portafolio
¿Cuál es la cantidad adecuada de criptomonedas que hay que tener? Asesores financieros y expertos en inversiones están empezando a recomendar asignaciones específicas.
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Feb 18, 2022 at 6:26 p.m. UTC
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What Can You Buy With Bitcoin?
At some point you’re going to want to spend your bitcoin. But where can you go to exchange it for goods and services?
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Feb 8, 2022 at 11:04 a.m. UTC
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How to Buy Crypto on the Apps You Already Have
Buying bitcoin and other crypto assets doesn't have to be a painful and laborious process.
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Feb 4, 2022 at 3:07 p.m. UTC
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How to Invest in Bitcoin Without Buying BTC
Regulated derivatives products allow investors to gain exposure to bitcoin without the hassle of dealing directly with crypto.
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Feb 4, 2022 at 3:06 p.m. UTC
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Is a Crypto Winter Coming? 3 Things to Consider
There’s a definite chill in the air as the crypto market tries to shake off another steep crash. But is a new crypto winter really upon us?
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Jan 28, 2022 at 12:52 p.m. UTC
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Cuatro cosas que deberías hacer en un mercado bajista de cripto
No es fácil mantener la tranquilidad mientras tus activos cripto registran pérdidas de dos dígitos. Pero no desesperes: sigue estos sencillos pasos y aprovecha al máximo esta oportunidad de caída de precios
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Jan 27, 2022 at 9:16 p.m. UTC
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What Is Bitcoin?
In 2008, a pseudonymous programmer named Satoshi Nakamoto published a 9-page document outlining a new decentralized, digital currency. They called it Bitcoin.
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Jan 26, 2022 at 4:33 p.m. UTC
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What Happens When All Bitcoin Are Mined?
The last bitcoin is expected to be mined sometime around the year 2140.
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Jan 26, 2022 at 3:31 p.m. UTC
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What is Bitcoin’s Lightning Network?
In 2016, developers Thaddeus Dryja and Joseph Poon proposed a protocol called “the lightning network” that would enable faster and cheaper transactions while not having to change the block size.
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Jan 19, 2022 at 1:48 p.m. UTC
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Can You Still Mine Bitcoin and Other Crypto From Home?
Despite popular belief, you don't need your own wind turbine or nuclear power plant to mine crypto profitably from home in 2022.
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Jan 18, 2022 at 12:25 p.m. UTC
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How to Sell Bitcoin
Whether you want to spend or hold bitcoin, at some point you’ll probably want to sell some. Here's our guide on how to sell bitcoin.
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Jan 14, 2022 at 11:03 a.m. UTC
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Why Use Bitcoin?
It’s fast, it’s cheap to use, it’s private and central governments can’t take it away.
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Jan 6, 2022 at 1:29 p.m. UTC
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What Makes Bitcoin Price Go Up ... or Crash Down?
While bitcoin’s wild price movements might seem random, they are often driven by the same fundamental catalysts as in the traditional markets.
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Dec 17, 2021 at 11:04 p.m. UTC
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How to Gift Bitcoin, NFTs and Other Crypto
If only your grandmother had bought you bitcoin for Christmas every year instead of a $10 multipack of socks…
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Dec 17, 2021 at 10:40 p.m. UTC
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What Is Cryptocurrency?
When Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin protocol in January 2009, the first globally viable cryptocurrency had arrived.
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Nov 29, 2021 at 6:56 p.m. UTC
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What Is a Bitcoin ETF?
Bitcoin ETFs allow investors to gain exposure to the leading cryptocurrency without having to actually own it.
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Oct 16, 2021 at 12:08 a.m. UTC
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What Is the Bitcoin Block Size Debate and Why Does It Matter?
The debate over the size of Bitcoin’s blocks has been called its “constitutional crisis,” splitting the community right down the middle.
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Oct 8, 2021 at 1:38 p.m. UTC
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How to Send Bitcoin Tips on Twitter
There's a feature on Twitter that lets you receive tips via third-party payment channels. Learn how to set up this feature and how to send bitcoin-denominated tips.
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Sep 30, 2021 at 4:52 p.m. UTC
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Cinco razones por las que bitcoin se mantiene por debajo de $50.000
El precio de la mayor criptomoneda por capitalización de mercado lleva más de 130 días luchando por superar la barrera psicológica de $50.000. ¿Cuáles son las razones?
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Sep 28, 2021 at 8:26 p.m. UTC
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What Is a Bitcoin Futures ETF?
A bitcoin futures ETF is another type of regulated financial product that allows investors to indirectly participate in the bitcoin market.
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Sep 9, 2021 at 11:20 p.m. UTC
Sep 9, 2021
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How to Set Up a Bitcoin Miner
While bitcoin mining is dominated by large companies with huge warehouses full of equipment, it’s still possible for individuals to successfully mine as part of a pool. Here's how to start crypto mining.
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Sep 9, 2021 at 2:34 p.m. UTC
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What Are Bitcoin Mining Pools?
Find out what bitcoin mining pools are and how to join them. The same methods can be used for most cryptocurrencies.
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Sep 9, 2021 at 2:34 p.m. UTC
Sep 9, 2021
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How Can I Buy Bitcoin?
With bitcoin adoption continuing to rise, it’s now possible to purchase the digital asset across a wide range of exchanges, brokerages and apps.
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Sep 9, 2021 at 1:10 p.m. UTC
Sep 9, 2021
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New to Bitcoin? How to Stay Safe and Avoid Common Bitcoin Scams
Welcome to the world of bitcoin, where you are your first and last line of defense against scammers and fraudsters.
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Dec 20, 2020 at 6:52 p.m. UTC
Dec 20, 2020
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Can the Bitcoin Network Scale?
You want to spend bitcoin in your daily purchases. But what would that look like in a world where services like Visa and Mastercard still dominate?
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Feb 23, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. UTC
Feb 23, 2018
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Understanding Bitcoin Price Charts
Whether you already own bitcoin or plan to get some, you’ll want to know how much they’re worth.
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Jun 1, 2014 at 6:05 p.m. UTC
Jun 1, 2014
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Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto?
No one knows who Satoshi Nakamoto really was, but we do know he was the inventor of Bitcoin, ushering in the age of cryptocurrency.
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Aug 20, 2013 at 8:59 p.m. UTC
Aug 20, 2013
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How to Store Your Bitcoin
Bitcoin wallets store the private keys that you need to access a bitcoin address and spend your funds. But which kind suits you best?
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Aug 20, 2013 at 8:59 p.m. UTC
Aug 20, 2013
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How Do Bitcoin Transactions Work?
Bitcoin transactions are sent from and to electronic bitcoin wallets, and are digitally signed for security.
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Aug 20, 2013 at 8:59 p.m. UTC
Aug 20, 2013
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