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Update (0945ET): Just as we suspected, the CoinTelegraph tweet appears to be incorrect as Fox's Eleanor Terrett confirms…

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Following the surge in crude oil, gold, and bonds late last week as tension escalated in the Middle East, it appears Bitcoin is the latest to feel the squeezey alternate/safe-haven flows as the crypto currency has exploded higher this morning, topping $30,000 for the first time since August…

This moves comes after SEC's decision (more…)

Authored by William Stebbins Jr. via Bitcoin Magazine,

Tension is building in the mines.

As the 4th Halving nears and the block reward trims to 3.125 bitcoin per block, miners must not only adapt to a significantly diminished reward, but contend with an increasingly profit-hostile future which might have surprised even the prescient Nakamoto. Indeed, despite widespread hope that fiat states will come to accept peaceful coexistence with bitcoin—I, too, would prefer this outcome—and (more…)

Today was the deadline by which the SEC must either appeal the D.C. Circuit (more…)