We asked for your craziest crypto story. These are the winners

The winners of a contest to find the craziest stories in crypto have been named — and they feature a Russian grandmother and a Counter-Strike tournament with a big BTC prize.

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Winz.io Launches Rewarding Bitcoin Mining Adventure with 1 BTC Grand Prize

With bitcoin mooning and surpassing all of its previously-set records, people worldwide are rushing to obtain profits. Miners are also keen on solving the proof-of-work problem in exchange for a chance to add the next block and reap their bitcoin reward.

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Meme Token Baguette Token Set for Listing on ProBit Exchange

ProBit Exchange will be listing Baguette token on October 16 at 16:00 KST with a trio of trading pairs including KRW, USDT, and BTC across liquid markets. A special BGTT trading competition replete with a booster feature will start on October 19 at 11:00 KST with a prize pool of 150,000 BGTT and 250 USDT. […]

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Enter the Phemex Trader’s Arena to Compete for a 100 BTC Prize

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Traders Walk Away With $1.27M Prizes at Bybit’s Trading Competition

Cryptocurrency traders competed for a combined prize pool of $1. 27 million at Bybit’s World Series of Trading (WSOT) tournament, which concluded on August 31. The world’s largest cryptocurrency trading event drew massive participation and saw a 100 BTC prize split, mostly between three winning teams.

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1xBit’s New Live Casino Tournament: INSTANT ROULETTE

1xBit launches a new tournament with a prize fund of 1000 BTC to honor the announcement of the newest live casino game by Evolution Gaming. Leading crypto casino 1xBit has launched the most exhilarating Instant Roulette tournament, which is scheduled to start on August 21, 2020, at 00:00 GMT and end on September 13, 2020, […]

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Big Brother Nigeria Housemates Participate in Bitcoin Quiz, Get $500 BTC as Reward

Eighteen housemates of Nigeria’s version of Big Brother took part in a bitcoin quiz with each participant getting $500 worth of BTC as prize money. Big Brother Naija (BBN) reportedly agreed to this unusual step as part of moves to offer more than just entertainment to its audience.

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Bybit’s WSOT Competition Launches with 12,000 Traders Gunning for 100 BTC Prize

The world’s largest cryptocurrency trading competition has kicked off in a blur of publicity. Bybit’s World Series of Trading (WSOT) has captivated the cryptosphere on account of its 100 BTC prize pool, currently worth over $1.

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Bybit Will Donate 5% of Its 200 BTC Trading Event Prize to Charity

Bybit has made a generous gesture ahead of its August trading event, World Series of Trading. The derivatives exchange has promised to donate 5% of the prize pool to UNICEF to help combat the effects of Covid-19.

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Bybit Pledges up to 10 BTC Charitable Donation from WSOT Prize Pool to UNICEF

Crypto derivatives exchange Bybit has dipped into its bitcoin reserves and pledged up to 10 BTC to Covid-19 relief. The benevolent gesture will support humanitarian efforts made by UNICEF, who will receive the donation, while further raising the profile of Bybit’s World Series of Trading (WSOT) competition.

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Bybit presents World Series of Trading (WSOT) – 200 BTC Prize Pool up for Grabs

While movie theaters may be unusually empty this time of the year, a different kind of summer blockbuster is coming soon, one that promises to bring back the exhilaration of competitive crypto trading with up to 200 bitcoins (BTC) prize pool, up to 20% off trading fees and up to $9,400 in USDT bonuses.

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World Series of Trading (WSOT) – Monstrous 200 BTC Prize Pool up for Grabs

While movie theaters may be unusually empty this time of the year, a different kind of summer blockbuster is coming soon, one that promises to bring back the exhilaration of competitive crypto trading with up to 200 bitcoins (BTC) prize pool, 20% off trading fees and up to $9,400 in USDT bonuses. A Blockbuster Competitive […]

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World Series of Trading (WSOT) - Monstrous 200 BTC Prize Pool up for Grabs

While movie theaters may be unusually empty this time of the year, a different kind of summer blockbuster is coming soon, one that promises to bring back the exhilaration of competitive crypto tradingThe post World Series of Trading (WSOT) - Monstrous 200 BTC Prize Pool up for Grabs appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bybit Announces “World Series of Trading” Contest with Prize Fund Worth 200 BTC

Bybit has announced it is launching a brand-new series of trading contests called the “World Series of Trading. ” Targeted at traders of all levels, Bybit will allocate prizes from a pool worth 200 BTC or over $1.

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Treasure Hunters Race to Claim BTC Prize Hidden in New Music Album

One techie music artist has hidden Bitcoin in his new album, and it's up for grabs to whoever solves the associated puzzle.

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Lottery Winner in Illinois Uses Half of His Prize, Worth $250,000 to Buy Bitcoin (BTC)

A resident of Illinois won half a million dollars in a state lottery and later claimed that he invested half of it in Bitcoin. The story went public recently when the Redditor Joxnlol who won the lottery posted an image of himself with the check. He affirmed that he invested half of the prize in […]

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Bitcoin.com Launches Games Stars Leaderboard – Win BTC Every Week

To introduce a new flavor to the ever exciting online gaming experience at games. bitcoin. com, we are launching a fresh new promotion where you can win BTC worth $200 every week. The Games Stars promotion sets the stage for 10 players to win from a prize pool of $1000 each week.

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Libra Confident, France Angry, Domino’s BTC Prize: Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 9–15

In this week’s Hodler’s Digest, Libra gets confident, France gets angry, and Domino’s Pizza fans get excited

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Bitcoin [BTC] and other cryptocurrencies should be shut down, claims Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is of the opinion that cryptocurrencies should be “shut down. ” While contending that digital payment systems are the way of the future, the economist does not believe that decentralized currency is part of this trend.

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Satoshi’s Treasure to add side quests on top of $1 million Bitcoin prize

A million-dollar Bitcoin scavenger hunt began only two weeks ago, but one player has already built software to help others co-ordinate their detective efforts. Satoshi’s Treasure works like this: game organizers split keys to $1 million worth of BTC into 1,000 “shards.

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Satoshi’s Treasure: The Chase Is on for a $1 Million Bitcoin Prize

A treasure hunt for $1 million worth of bitcoin is officially underway. In a cryptic, rambling message broadcasted to the Blockstream Satellite on April 13, 2019, an anonymous user challenged the rest of the Bitcoin community to a million dollar hunt for what they called “Satoshi’s Treasure,” a contest which will “test the resolve, courage, intelligence, and savvy [sic] of would-be hunters,” the game master claimed.

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BitMart Lists The World’s First Collaborative Investment Marketplace – HUDDL

BitMart Exchange, a premier global digital asset trading platform, recently announced the listing of Huddl (HUDDL). HUDDL/BTC and HUDDL/ETH trading pairs will be available starting at 9:00 AM (EDT) on April 3.

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Elon Musk: “Whoever Owns the Early BTC Deserves a Nobel Prize in Delayed Gratification”

Entrepreneurial giant and maverick Elon Musk has a thing or two to say about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, having spoken… The post Elon Musk: “Whoever Owns the Early BTC Deserves a Nobel Prize in Delayed Gratification” appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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Tesla Creator Elon Musk Reveals His Crypto Holdings

CoinSpeaker Tesla Creator Elon Musk Reveals His Crypto Holdings Elon Musk is well-known for his enthusiasm about Bitcoin, recently he unveiled his crypto balances and even proposed to give the Nobel Prize for BTC HODLers.

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Elon Musk: Bitcoin HODLers ‘Deserve A Nobel Prize’

Tesla founder Elon Musk became the center of attention for the Bitcoin community again February 21 after revealing he still only owned 0. 25 BTC. Musk: I Still Have 0. 25 BTC, No Altcoins Following coverage of his describing Bitcoin as “brilliant” in a podcast by disruptive investment firm ARK Invest earlier this week, Musk tweeted that despite his enthusiasm, he had marginal amounts of the cryptocurrency.

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Binance Expands Fiat-to-Crypto Exchange Into Europe Via Jersey

Binance’s cryptocurrency exchange platform has expanded into the European market with its entry into the Island of Jersey, a self-governing dependency of Great Britain.

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Minting the Future of Cryptocurrencies - [BTC Media Sponsor]

In 2009, Bitcoin was ushered in as an alternative to fiat currency, promising to revolutionize the future of peer-to-peer spending. Since then, it has spawned scores of other cryptocurrencies with various value propositions and potential.

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Bitcoin Puzzle’s $1.9M Prize Purportedly Won in a Week

Last week, a bitcoin picture puzzle appeared online in which players were challenged to uncover the private key to a BTC wallet. The game sparked major interest, for its 310 BTC prize was magnitudes greater than anything previously offered by a game of this nature.

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Bitcoin Is Replacing Bolivar As Venezuelan Economy Crashes

Whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is, he/she might be deserving of the Nobel Prize in economics for inventing Bitcoin (BTC), the nascent digital coin that is currently rescuing crypto-adopting Venezuelans from the abyss.

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Paul Krugman: Bitcoin Will “Set the Monetary System Back 300 Years”

Bitcoin (BTC)–Bitcoin is again in the headlines being criticized by a Nobel Prize winning economist. Paul Krugman, one of the most accoladed and celebrated economists of our time, has again written in his contribution to The New York Times that Bitcoin fails to constitute money, but could also be responsible for erasing much of the […] The post Paul Krugman: Bitcoin Will “Set the Monetary System Back 300 Years” appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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Bitcoin [BTC] vs Warren Buffet: A battle for the ages with a $1.2 billion prize

Fourth-generation Australian bookmaker [bookie], Tom Waterhouse announced on Twitter earlier this week about a bet placed with him. This bet is comparable to John McAfee’s ‘Bitcoin [BTC] will hit $1 million by 2020 or I eat my dick’ bet.

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Bitcoin [BTC] may drop to $100: Nobel Prize Laureate

Joseph Stiglitz, the former Chief Economist of the World Bank has given a signal to all cryptocurrency enthusiasts that central banks are yet to pass stringent laws on cryptocurrency and that all is not rosy yet.

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Bitcoin [BTC] phenomenon is generational and geographical, says Robert Shiller

In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Robert Shiller, a prominent economist, Yale University economics professor and Nobel economics prize winner Robert Shiller said that Bitcoin [BTC] is a generational and geographic phenomenon.

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Robert Schiller says bitcoin is “epidemic of enthusiasm”!

Beyond economics, Bitcoin (BTC) is a “social movement” that runs along “generational and geographic” lines, Nobel economics prize winner Robert Shiller told Bloomberg Tuesday, June 26. Silicon Valley is really into it… It’s a social movement.

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