Bitcoin mining struggles to go green, research showsProcessing bitcoin transactions and "mining" new tokens is done by powerful computers, hooked up to a global network, that compete against ...
27 Sep, 2022, 03.37 PM IST
Cost of crypto: report say U.S. bitcoin as dirty as 6 million carsThe industry's carbon footprint, the groups said, was 27.4 million tonnes from mid-2021 through 2022 - three times that of the largest U.S....
23 Sep, 2022, 12.17 PM IST
Tesla to accept dogecoin as payment for merchandise, says Elon MuskTesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday said the electric carmaker will accept meme-based digital currency dogecoin for merchandise.
14 Jan, 2022, 03.20 PM IST
Tesla to accept bitcoin again when greenerElon Musk stated that Tesla will accept payments in the form of cryptocurrency 'when there's confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy...
14 Jun, 2021, 11.43 AM IST
Bitcoin rises 9.8% to $39,035Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 40.7% from the year's low of $27,734 on Jan. 4
14 Jun, 2021, 07.20 AM IST
Bitcoin jumps after Elon Musk says Tesla will accept crypto when miners use clean energyElon Musk also said that Tesla sold about 10% of holdings to confirm bitcoin could be liquidated easily without moving market.
14 Jun, 2021, 06.21 AM IST
Elon Musk jolts Bitcoin higher with push to burnish miners’ imageMusk and Michael Saylor, another long-time Bitcoin booster, tweeted that they held a call with major North American miners, including Micha...
25 May, 2021, 09.20 AM IST
Why does Bitcoin consume 'insane' energy?"If Bitcoin was a country, it would use around the same amount of electricity a year to mine as Switzerland does in total," Deutsche Bank a...
15 May, 2021, 02.28 PM IST
SBI Card cautions customers against Bitcoin investmentVirtual currencies are stored in digital/electronic format, making them vulnerable to hacking, loss of password and malware attack which ma...
20 Feb, 2018, 04.28 PM IST
Citi India bans use of debit and credit cards to buy bitcoinsCiti India in a message to its customers said it has banned usage of its debit and credit cards for purchase or trading of virtual currenci...
13 Feb, 2018, 03.02 PM IST
Bitcoin forecast ratcheted up to $6,000 by Lee as optimism growsEvery 10 per cent increase in user accounts adds $222 to bitcoin’s value.
19 Aug, 2017, 04.03 PM IST
Bitcoin is digital gold. But will you buy a sandwich with it?The big question is if this red hot asset is a stable method of payment.
19 Jun, 2017, 12.17 PM IST
- Use of Bitcoin illegal, can attract anti-money laundering law
The RBI has already cautioned users, holders and traders of virtual currency, including Bitcoin, about the potential financial, legal and s...
28 Mar, 2017, 05.26 PM IST
Bengaluru-based Bitcoin startup Unocoin raises Rs 10 croreStarted in 2013, Unocoin operates BTC (Bitcoin)-INR trading platform which enables people to buy, sell, store, use and accept bitcoin.
30 Sep, 2016, 08.48 AM IST
ePaisa enables bitcoin acceptance for its merchantsStartup ePaisa which offers multi-lingual mobile-based applications for cash and card payments has launched a first-of-its-kind initiative ...
21 Aug, 2015, 06.14 PM IST
Government looking at proposal to join digital payments allianceThe BTCA, according to its website, provides expertise in the transition to digital payments to achieve the goals of empowering people and ...
20 Mar, 2015, 04.30 PM IST
RBI examining legal,security aspects of virtual currencies: FMGovernment today said the RBI is examining legal and security aspects of virtual currencies like bitcoins or litecoins.
11 Feb, 2014, 05.01 PM IST