Africa’s Bitcoin ecosystem has grown 77% over the course of 2024, expanding from 15 to 21 countries in a year, with 17 new projects driving innovation and financial freedom.
“Bitcoin is Freedom”
A powerful new Bitcoin ad by @BurnTheFed connects the principles of Bitcoin to the same ideals that inspired America’s founding.
JUST IN: A BTC Treasury Shareholder Proposal has been submitted to Meta by Ethan Peck, an employee at The National Center for Public Policy Research.
Peck, who previously submitted proposals to $MSFT and $AMZN, filed this one on behalf of his family’s shares.
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A compact solar array that tracks the sun’s path, enabling Bitcoin mining with a Bitaxe—powered entirely by free, renewable energy.
MAX KEISER: The world is beginning to understand that Bitcoin will be the world reserve currency.
January 10th in Bitcoin History
1 year ago Bitcoin ETFs were approved
16 years ago Hal Finney announced he was running Bitcoin
January 10th in Bitcoin History
1 year ago Bitcoin ETFs were approved
16 years ago Hal Finney announced he was running Bitcoin
January 10th in Bitcoin History
1 year ago Bitcoin ETFs were approved
16 years ago Hal Finney announced he was running Bitcoin
According to Arkham Intelligence, the wallet holding the seized bitcoin related to “Individual X” shows no recent activity for now, maintaining its balance for the past 4 years.
https://bitcoinnews.com/legal/seized-bitcoin-silk-road-doj-cleared-court/
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The world’s first open-source touch-screen Bitcoin miner, built on Bitaxe and AxeOS, represents a groundbreaking step in the Open Source Bitcoin Mining Revolution.
NEW: 🇹🇭 Thai police seized 996 Bitcoin mining rigs from a company accused of stealing electricity with tampered power meters.
Registered as a digital asset trader, the firm used unconnected solar panels as cover.
NEW: Gary Gensler, reflecting on his tenure as SEC Chair, emphasized, “In crypto, there’s Bitcoin, and then everything else.”
He noted that out of 10,000-15,000 crypto projects, “many will not survive,” citing “pump-and-dump schemes and notorious actors like SBF and Do Kwon.”
FINBOLD: Between December 31, 2023, and December 31, 2024, an average of 154 Bitcoin addresses holding over 💵 $1M were created daily.
This resulted in a total increase of approximately 56,325 such addresses throughout the year, a 58.21% increase.
NEW: "I’d rather own Bitcoin than gold if something bad happens to the economy.
Bitcoin is easier to buy and sell. You can fractionalize it, you can buy things, you can transfer it internationally.
And so I think it has more value than gold," says Mark Cuban.
Is the Biden Administration about to dump billions worth of Bitcoin as a final jab at Trump?
In the first major US criminal tax evasion case involving Bitcoin, Ahlgren pleaded guilty in September 2024 to filing a false tax return. He was sentenced to 2 years in prison, 1 year of supervised release, and owes $1.1 million in restitution.
https://bitcoinnews.com/legal/frank-richard-ahlgren-iii-private-keys/
A federal judge has authorized the 🇺🇸 US government to sell 69,370 Bitcoin, valued at $6.5 billion, seized from Silk Road.
The DOJ has not yet released details on the timing or method of the sale.
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