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🍕Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! On May 22, 2010, programmer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. At the time, it cost about £10. Today? About £250 million. To celebrate how far Bitcoin has come — and commemorate history’s most expensive pizzas — let’s take a look at 4 things 10,000 BTC could buy in 2021. - 28 million large cheese pizzas - 165,000 moped scooters (for local delivery) - 3 commercial airplanes (for coast-to-coast delivery) - 14 billion after-dinner mints If that’s how much #Bitcoin has changed since 2010, just think how different things could look in the next 11 years. Hopefully pizza still tastes the same. 🦅@perspectiveix via Coinbase.

💰Biggest Bitcoin Transaction Yet The biggest #Bitcoin transaction in history was sent literally just today. - 88,857 BTC almost worth $1.15 billion - Transaction fee was ridiculously low at $3.54 (view the transaction here.) In comparison, fees charged for this transaction would be (via ChrisMessina): - #Paypal, if international: $50,737,750.32 - Paypal, if domestic: $33,440,790.09 - #Stripe: $34,439,536.65 🦅@perspectiveix

Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines—Day 6 👉#France is using #AI to check whether people are wearing masks on public transport (link) 👉#Facebook's Oversight Board, who will focus on challenging content issues, such as hate speech and harassment, announces its first 20 members out of a total of 40 (link) 👉 Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and more Viacom channels coming to #YouTubeTV (link) 👉#Zoom acquires #Keybase to get end-to-end encryption expertise (link) 👉 Liberty’s Virgin Media and Telefonica’s O2 to merge in the UK in $39B deal (link) 👉#Square Q1: revenue of $1.38B, up 44% YoY; net loss of $106M, up $68M YoY (link) 👉#Square reports $528M in Q1 revenues from its Cash App, with $306M coming from #Bitcoin transactions, exceeding the app's fiat revenue of $222M for the first time (link) 👉#PayPal Q1: misses estimates with revenue of $4.62B, up 13% YoY; net income of $84M, down from $667M YoY (link) 👉#Shopify Q1: revenue of $470M, up 47% YoY; gross merchandise volume of $17.4B, up 46% YoY (link) #️⃣#EarningsCalls 📰@iXDaily by @PerspectiveIX 💌Weekly Newsletter.

Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines—Day 5 👉#Apple will host a virtual #WWDC this year — starts on 22 June (link) 👉#Twitter tests a warning message that tells users to rethink offensive replies (link) 👉#Twitter rolls out changes to threaded conversations following tests in its prototype app, #twttr (link) 👉#Airbnb cuts 1,900 jobs, around 25% of its global workforce (link) 👉#Bitcoin is set for ‘Halving’ this month (link) 👉 Leaked videos show #Lenovo’s first gaming #smartphone (link) 👉#Android 11’s public beta to launch with 3 June via live stream (link) 👉#Google’s #Stadia controller will finally work wirelessly with computers starting this week (link) 👉#Microsoft launches #SurfaceBook 3 (link) and #SurfaceHeadphones 2 (link) 👉#Microsoft offers $100,000 to hack its custom Linux OS (link) 👉#Uber lays off 14% of its workforce in COVID-19-related cost-cutting (link) 👉#Pinterest Q1: revenue of $272M, vs. $270M est., up 35% YoY; user base grew to 367M MAUs, up 26% YoY (link) 👉#EA Q4: revenues of $1.39B, beating expectations of $1.19B, up 12% YoY (link) #️⃣#EarningsCalls 📰@iXDaily by @PerspectiveIX 💌Weekly Newsletter.

⚡️Bitcoin Uses More Electricity Than Switzerland Among other things, #Bitcoin has been criticized for price volatility, use in illegal transactions and thefts from exchanges. It has also proven highly controversial for the sheer amount of energy it requires. The University of Cambridge has released a new online tool that estimates the level of electricity the #CryptoCurrency network uses and compares it with other entities. It estimates that Bitcoin uses 61.76 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricty per year, more than many countries and around 0.28 percent of worldwide electricity consumption. The Czech Republic 🇨🇿 consumes an estimated 62.34 TWh while Switzerland 🇨🇭 consumes 58.46 TWh annually by comparison. In fact, if Bitcoin was a country, it would be the 41st most-energy-demanding nation on earth. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista.

​​💰Libra: Facebook confirms its cryptocurrency launching in 2020 #Libra is designed not to be a speculative asset, like #Bitcoin, but a form of digital money backed by a reserve of assets. The company has formed the nonprofit Libra Association with 27 other partners to oversee Libra and its development. The partnership includes venture capital firms, nonprofit organizations, #cryptocurrency firms, and massive corporate financial, telecommunications, and technology service providers, including #Coinbase, #Mastercard, #Visa, #eBay, #PayPal, #Stripe, #Spotify, #Uber, #Lyft, and #Vodafone. While the Libra Association will have members based globally, it will be headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland🇨🇭 Facebook has a business incentive to build on top of the Libra #blockchain, and it’s launching its own subsidiary to do just that called #Calibra (see the GIF below - Credit: Facebook). According to Kevin Weil, Facebook's VP of Product, Calibra will live inside of Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp at launch, but will also have a standalone iOS and Android app. 🔗 Read more the Verge. 🚀@PerspectiveIX

💰Bitcoin Pizza Day 8 years ago the very first #Bitcoin transaction took place: two 🍕 for 10,000 coins 😳 - Today that's about $82 million; - Would buy you 6.5 million pizzas; 🚀@PerspectiveIX

💰Cryptocurrencies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Another take on #Bitcoin, other #CryptoCurrencies & #Blockchain. A must-watch. 🚀@PerspectiveIX 🌀 ⁣http://prs.pctvix.co/TelegramIX

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​​💰The Top Ten Cryptocurrencies 1. Bitcoin 2. Ethereum 3. Ripple Bitcoin jumped back up over the $8,000 dollar mark on 13 April 2018. As this infographic shows, while #Bitcoin is by no means alone in the world of #CryptoCurrencies, it is by far the most valuable #CryptoCurrency, with a total market cap of over $133 billion. According to figures from CoinMarketCap, #Ethereum is the closest alternative, but with only $49 billion. 🚀@PerspectiveIX 🌀 ⁣http://prs.pctvix.co/TelegramIX ❓ Do you own any cryptocurrency? 👍🏻 Yes 🤔 Not yet, but thinking about buying some 👎🏻 No, and I'm not interested at all

🔗 What is #Blockchain? A technology that underpins #cryptocurrencies like #Bitcoin and presents new opportunities for how we share data. 🚀@PerspectiveIX 🌀 ⁣http://prs.pctvix.co/TelegramIX