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'Do you want Tesla to accept Doge?' Elon Musk asks Twitter users

Musk's tweets this year have turned the once-obscure digital currency, which began as a social media joke, into a speculator's dream.

Cryptocurrency ethereum hits new record high again; dogecoin slumps

Cryptocurrency ethereum climbed to a new peak for a third straight day on Monday on continued optimism about further growth in decentralized finance or "DeFi"

SpaceX accepts Dogecoin as payment to launch lunar mission next year

Mini-satellite will embark on voyage to the Moon in 2022

Art in demand: Crypto, Picassos at strangest auction week in memory

At Sotheby's, a work by Banksy, Love is in the Air, estimated from $3 mn to $5 mn, can also be paid for in Ether or Bitcoin

Gaining currency

Large firms signal mainstream acceptance of crypto

Decoded: Here's how to tell the difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum

The prices of both Bitcoin and Ether were relatively flat from early 2018 to the fall of 2020, a period known as the 'crypto winter' by oldtimers

Second-biggest cryptocurrency ethereum breaks $4,000 to hit record high

Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, rose to a three-week high above $59,600 on Monday

Elon Musk to send cryptocurrency-funded satellite DOGE-1 to Moon

Elon Musk-run SpaceX is now accepting the new cryptocurrency Dogecoin to launch an upcoming satellite named DOGE-1 to the Moon

As scrutiny of cryptocurrency grows, industry turns to Washington lobbyists

Ripple Labs has enlisted lobbyists, lawyers to make its case to the Securities and Exchange Commission and in one of the first big legal battles over what limits the government should set for trading

SpaceX to accept dogecoin as payment to launch lunar mission in 2022: Musk

Crypto currency lost more than a third of its price on Sunday, after the businessman called it a 'hustle'

Cryptocurrency mania sends Doge soaring, crashes Robinhood token trading

Investors are piling back into some of the fringe corners of the cryptocurrency world, with the frenzy sending Dogecoin surging more than 50% again and crashing Robinhood's trading app.

Cryptocurrency ether hit a record high, Ethereum breaks past $3,000 mark

Cryptocurrency ether hit a record high, extending last week's rally in the wake of a report that the European Investment Bank could launch a digital bond sale on the ethereum blockchain network

Turkey adds cryptocurrency exchanges to terror funding regulations

The presidential decree makes "crypto asset service providers" responsible for seeing their assets are not used illegally

Competition Commission paper on blockchain tech spells regulatory risk

In case of permission-less blockchains, network participants may be anonymous or pseudonymous - their identities are not known fully - the CCI discussion paper notes

Bitcoin jumps as much as 8%, on course to snap five days of declines

The cryptocurrency has slumped almost a fifth from its all-time high hit earlier this month.

Tiger Global makes its first India cryptocurrency firm investment

Invests Rs 181 crore in CoinSwitch Kuber in a Series B round of funding, valuing the company at over $500 million

Dogecoin cryptocurrency slumps after hashtag-fueled surge to record high

Dogecoin's rise came during a surge in online trading of stocks and crypto by retail investors, stuck at home with extra cash because of the Covid-19 pandemic

PayPal's Venmo launches cryptocurrency buying and selling features

Venmo users will be able to buy bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and bitcoin cash for as little as $1

Dogecoin's $50-billion market cap makes it bigger than Ford and Kraft

Meanwhile, other cryptocurrencies have been mired in a slump as euphoria from Coinbase Global Inc.'s listing wears off

'Britcoin' digital currency being considered by UK authorities

The Bank of England and the Treasury said Monday that they will work together to assess the benefits of a central bank digital currency,