Data from Bitcoin Treasuries shows that the amount of Bitcoin held by companies and institutions worldwide has reached 1.6 million BTC, nearly 8% of Bitcoin’s total hard cap supply. The majority of all institutional BTC purchases occurred over the last year and a half. Topping the list of...
The American movie theatre chain AMC has announced that it will start accepting Bitcoin as a payment method for theatre tickets by the end of this year. Payments with Bitcoin will be made online and will be accepted in all AMC theatres across the US. The company will also add...
SpaceX is partnering with a Canadian tech startup, Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC), to launch a digital billboard into orbit. The satellites will have a screen on one side on which companies and people will bid to have their logos and advertisements displayed. The CubeSat, released in early 2022, will come...
The government of El Salvador has committed to airdropping $30 worth of Bitcoin (BTC) to every adult citizen of the country. Every Salvadoran adult who downloads the government’s Bitcoin wallet app will be eligible. The news comes just a couple of weeks after the government declared the popular cryptocurrency...
Former executives of several travel companies like Airbnb and Expedia have joined forces with Travala.com, a company backed by Binance, to launch Dtravel [https://www.dtravel.com/], a blockchain-based home-sharing platform. With $5 million in seed funding raised so far, Dtravel aims to facilitate short and long-term stays payable...
El Salvador has accepted the popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the world’s first country to do so. 62 members of the country’s Congress voted in favor of the bill, while 19 members opposed and 3 abstained. As of now, the country’s citizens can freely spend...
