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Buying Apple Shares 10 Years Ago Yielded Meager Returns Compared to Bitcoin

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There have been numerous investment opportunities over the past few decades. Especially where technology companies are concerned, the returns have been quite spectacular at times. Even so, almost none of those returns can hold a candle to the gains enjoyed by investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Even Apple’s stock doesn’t come anywhere close to the actual year-by-year performance of … Read more

Researchers Find Bitcoin Network 3X More ‘Evil’ Than the Public Internet

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Just recently a research group called Rapid7 published a report that reveals over a year’s worth of research regarding malicious activity tethered to Bitcoin Core (BTC) full nodes. By utilizing data collected from a network called ‘Project Heisenberg,’ and its internet scanner ‘Project Sonar,’ alongside intelligence from Bitnodes, the team had found quite a lot … Read more

San Francisco Fed Says BTC-based Future Markets Played a Role in Price

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The U.S. Federal Reserve system has been very interested in bitcoin lately and has released a bunch of reports from Federal Reserve leaders and researchers from different offices. This past Monday, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and a professor from Stanford University published a paper that concludes that bitcoin-based futures markets affected the … Read more

$2.5 Billion Sent Out of Iran to Purchase Cryptocurrencies

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The chairman of the economic committee of Iran’s parliament has revealed that Iranians have sent more than $2.5 billion out of the country to purchase cryptocurrencies with. His statement follows the country’s central bank banning local banks from dealing with digital currencies including bitcoin. Also read: Yahoo! Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space $2.5 Billion … Read more