{"id":15987,"date":"2022-01-04T18:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=15987"},"modified":"2022-01-04T18:40:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:40:57","slug":"cryptocurrency-news-digest-by-coinscreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/cryptocurrency-news-digest-by-coinscreed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency News Digest by Coinscreed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
From January 1, 2022, till the time of writing, Coinscreed<\/a> will help you keep an eye on the trending cryptocurrency events and news.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Cryptocurrency News Digest by Coinscreed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

South Korea's Top Presidential Candidate Will Accept BTC and ETH as Campaign Contributions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to The Korea Times\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/g>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/clipPath>\r\n <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a>, South Korean politician Lee Jae-Myung, who formally became the progressive Democratic Party's presidential contender in October, will accept Bitcoin<\/a> and Ethereum<\/a>, as well as three other cryptocurrencies to be determined by his election committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month, Lee's cryptocurrency-savvy followers will be able to contribute to the campaign. According to the report, all contributed bitcoin would be converted to cash through a local exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee is attempting to win younger voters with his cryptocurrency campaign. According to a November survey, 40.5 percent of respondents between the ages of 20 and 40 claimed they have invested<\/a> in cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a lecture at Seoul National University last month, he stated that he wants South Korea to take the lead in the global bitcoin scene, calling cryptocurrency an “undeniable reality.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee also advocated for deferring cryptocurrency taxation<\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a> until next year, while also vowing to expand deduction limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bitcoin Hashrate Reaches New Milestone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bitcoin hashrate<\/a> has reached a new record high of 203.5 per second, according to BitInfoCharts<\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a> data. Bitcoin's hashrate has increased by 47.92 percent from January 3, 2021, when it was 141.55 EH \/ s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Bitcoin Hashrate Reaches New Milestone. Image by bitinfocharts.com<\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Bitcoin network's processing power and security have never been higher, and the network hit a significant milestone in early 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diagram of hashrate<\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a> On Coinwarz, the BTC hashrate peaked at 209.39 EH \/ s on January 1, 2022. The hashrate is still at 203 EH \/ s at the time of writing, while the network briefly hit 224.32 EH \/ s on Saturday, according to the 30-day stats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Bitcoin Hashrate Reaches New Milestone. Image by OLDo black<\/em><\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk Makes Hilarious Remark About Bitcoin's Genesis Block<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Elon Musk Makes Hilarious Remark About Bitcoin's Genesis Block <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a response to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeting the code that marked the beginning of the world's first blockchain, Tesla CEO Elon Musk<\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a> noted the 13th anniversary of Bitcoin's genesis block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reminds me of when I hex edited Ultima V to get out of the final maze\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 3, 2022<\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Musk compares it to hexing an edited version of the popular role-playing video game “Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny,” which was released in March 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musk tweeted in August 2016 that Ultima V was one of his favorite childhood games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To enable cheats for PC games, some gamers use a hex editor, which is a program for manipulating fundamental binary data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elon Musk Makes Hilarious Remark About Bitcoin's Genesis Block. Image by twitter.com<\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Eminem buys Bored Ape \u201cEminApe\u201d NFT for $460K<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Eminem buys Bored Ape \u201cEminApe\u201d NFT for $460K <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Eminem\u00a0<\/use><\/svg><\/span><\/a>became a member of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) by acquiring one of the nonfungible token (NFT) Bored Apes on OpenSea\u2019s NFT marketplace for $462,000. Bored Ape has a gold chain necklace and khaki army headgear that Eminem wears in real life and has been added to his portfolio by OpenSea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GeeGazza collaborated with Bored Ape to produce the NFT dubbed the \u201cEminApe.\u201d Six, a digital agency that has previously worked with\u00a0Wu-Tang Clan<\/a>, Tycho, and Galantis, finalized the acquisition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congrats! This aged well https:\/\/t.co\/s82B6sZOAf\u2014 0xFastly.eth (@0xFastly) December 31, 2021<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is not Eminem\u2019s first investment in NFTs. The rapper, who was born in Missouri, presently controls multiple OpenSea NFTs under the moniker \u201cShady Holdings.\u201d Additionally, Eminem\u2019s portfolio includes a number of Lil Baby Doodles X NFTs, including Ditaggdogg#1, the rapper\u2019s stencil artwork, and Superlative Apes #3880.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From January 1, 2022, till the time of writing, Coinscreed will help you keep an eye on the trending cryptocurrency events and news. South Korea’s Top Presidential Candidate Will Accept BTC and ETH as Campaign Contributions According to The Korea Times , South Korean politician Lee Jae-Myung, who formally became the progressive Democratic Party’s presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":15989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[6270,6327,6328,5701,5949],"class_list":["post-15987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bitcoin-news-2","tag-coinscreed","tag-elon-musk-news-2","tag-regulation-2","tag-south-korea-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Cryptocurrency-News-Digest-by-Coinscreed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}