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Soaring bitcoin prices put Central Washington electrical utilities on alert

Utility crews east of the Cascades are once again on high alert for suspiciously high power bills, 24-hour exhaust fans, and other telltale signs of bootleg bitcoin mines.  With the price of the virtual currency more than doubling since Dec. 1 to top $41,000 on Friday, public utility districts (PUDs) in the Columbia River Basin […]

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3 reasons why bitcoin has doubled in less than a month – and why experts think it won’t repeat its 2017 crash | Currency News | Financial and Business News

Reuters/Lucas Jackson Bitcoin has more than doubled in less than a month, leaving analysts and investors stunned and concerned about a possible market bubble. In many ways the token’s rally in recent months is crucially different than the surge seen three years ago, as buyers now range from casual day traders to fund managers handling billions of […]

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Analyst who nailed bitcoin’s $40,000 level says 50% collapse could come next

TipRanks Oppenheimer: These 3 Stocks Could Spike Over 80% Wall Street’s best firms don’t just look at the stocks, they look at the big picture, too. And Oppenheimer’s chief investment strategist, John Stoltzfus, is particularly adept at showing us the macro view. In his first note of the new year, Stoltzfus notes a series of […]

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Analyst who nailed bitcoin’s $40,000 level says 50% collapse could come next

The Guardian The Chinese government is trying to rebrand forced sterilization as feminism A report from a state-run thinktank says the reason for declining Uighur birth rates is gender equality – an outrageous but not unprecedented play Genocide gets the girlboss treatmentYou know those horrific mass detention camps in China? Turns out we were all […]

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Think How Well Bitcoin Would Be Doing if You Could Actually Buy It

For all the talk about bitcoin (and broadly crypto) being easier to buy than ever before, Friday morning, as bitcoin was topping $41,000 per coin, I spent hours trying to make a small $100 purchase.  According to some, the latest rally was initiated by institutional investors looking for a hedge against fiat inflation and the […]

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Collect a Bitcoin Dividend Without Owning the King of Cryptos

By Robert Ross Bitcoin celebrated its 11th birthday on January 3. And what a party it’s been, with the world’s first and most famous cryptocurrency now trading near $40,000. Warren Buffett famously referred to Bitcoin as “rat poison squared.â€� The Oracle of Omaha might never own the King of Cryptos. But even he has to […]

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Fears mount over tech bubble as Tesla and Bitcoin surge to new records

Unlike most industries, tech managed to not only shake the impact of the pandemic but thrive under it. Runaway initial public offerings like that of Airbnb and DoorDash capped off a year that demonstrated the western world’s reliance on companies like Amazon and Zoom. “Last year the capital gains in US technology shares dominated returns […]

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Bitcoin Was a Laughingstock. Why Is It Making a Comeback?

It’s been over a decade since the introduction of Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency, but you’d be forgiven for never adding it to your investments — or even still not quite knowing what it is or how it works. After its value reached record highs at the end of 2017, with early crypto adopters like […]

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Crypto User Loses Over $100K in Bitcoin While Transferring His Wallet

A bitcoin user has shared his story of how he lost more than $100,000 in BTC during a wallet transfer. The bitcoiner attempted to transfer a wallet to a new computer without making sure that he had access to the encryption passwords tied to his private key storage. Password Manager Didn’t Store Passphrases Needed to […]

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