Bitcoin was supposed to cut out the middleman. Instead, it’s become a middleman’s dream for scammers. In 2025 alone, Americans lost more than $330 million to bitcoin ATM scams, according to FBI data, ...

Last March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the government would launch a strategic reserve of Bitcoin. For the crypto industry, the move was a major win, the next step ...

The iconic American burger chain made this announcement in an X post, reiterating that all its Bitcoin sales go into the strategic reserve. “Our self-sustaining system — improving food quality that ...

There’s something about Bitcoin and blockchain that just seems to attract weird and wacky tinkerers. While computationally powerful ASIC miners dominate proof-of-work crypto mining today, that hasn’t ...

Bitcoin mining used to cost pocket change 15 years ago. Now the price to mine just one is mind-boggling. Back in its early days, Bitcoin was merely a passion project for a handful of dedicated ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For someone who cares about climate change, Matt Carlsson had what seemed like a ...

Bitcoin’s most recent halving took place in 2024, cutting the reward miners receive for each new block (David Pereiras/The Noun Project) While today’s data center conversation revolves around AI, ...

For someone who cares about climate change, Matt Carlsson had what seemed like a dream job: teaching clients how to decarbonize buildings. But he was frustrated. He could give customers the tools to ...

Last month, Instagram began rolling out a new set of controls that allowed users to personalize the topics recommended to them by the Reels algorithm. Now, Meta is making that feature available to all ...

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One of the side effects of the energy-intensive process of bitcoin mining is the excess heat that is created by the involved hardware devices. Miners have to prove that they’ve expended energy on ...