News about Bitcoin

by COINS NEWS - 2 years ago

Fidelity Offers Bitcoin as 401(k) Investment Option

Fidelity Investments has become the first retirement plan provider to allow cryptocurrencies in the 401(k) accounts that it services, starting with Bitcoin (BTC). This investment option will become available by mid-2022 to 23,000 employers that use F...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

Bitcoin mining electricity mix remained 58% sustainable in Q1 2022 - the network improved by 23% year-on-year while energy usage decreased 25%. We observed a 63% year-on-year increase in efficiency due to advances in semiconductor technology

Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: there is no government, company,...

More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago

Just 11 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto sent his last online message in the form of an email to Gavin Andresen. In it, Satoshi reminded Gavin that it was essential to give credit to dev contributors to the Bitcoin project rather than to its creator.

The last known public online message from Satoshi Nakamoto was a post on the Bitcointalk forum on December 12, 2010.Yet Satoshi Nakamoto continued to give signs of life in the following months to some early contributors to the Bitcoin project. Among...