The strangest purchases paid for with cryptocurrency. Part 7/7

*ex services

With the quarantine of the whole world, representatives of *ex-professions switched to online platforms and remote work mode. Since they often have problems with bank accounts due to ambivalent laws in different countries regarding their profession, cryptocurrencies have become an excellent way out of the situation.

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The strangest purchases paid for with cryptocurrency. Part 6/7

Oblation

The trade in indulgences went out of fashion in the Middle Ages. Now the church follows new trends in the world of business and technology. If your soul is groaning under the weight of your sins, you can donate cryptocurrency to Fern Creek United Methodist Church and ease the burden on your soul and wallet.

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The strangest purchases paid for with cryptocurrency. Part 5/7

Island

Private Island Inc put up part of the island of Lombok for sale for bitcoins. The crypto community confidently states that they are not against accepting cryptocurrency as payment for any island in their range of offerings.

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A space flight

Virgin Galactic, led by the charismatic Richard Branson, offers travel to space that can be paid for with cryptocurrency. It's no surprise that this madcap business world liked the bold new technology. Rumor has it that 6 trips have already been paid for with bitcoins.

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carnivorous plant

The Predatory Plants company specializes in trading predatory plants that can be purchased from them for digital money. If your lady is not a fan of banal bouquets of 101 roses, you can impress her with an unusual gift for unusual money.

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Citizenship of Vanuatu

Only 44 bitcoins - and the hospitable embrace of the state, whose residents are considered the happiest people in the world, is open to you. “Laying low in Vanuatu” still sounds more romantic than in Bruges.

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Funeral services

Crescent Tide, a funeral service company, offers cremation services and cute urns for the ashes of your departed loved ones. All this can be paid for with cryptocurrency. It doesn’t sound very tempting, but whatever one may say, the service is necessary.

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The BNB Chain team spoke about plans for 2024

The developers of the BNB Chain blockchain ecosystem released a report in which they presented a “comprehensive brand history” and plans for 2024, according to a press release obtained by ForkLog.

In the document “BNB Chain and Plans for Web3,” the team talked about the birth of BSC in September 2020 and the path to becoming one of the largest tier 1 ecosystems.

The report also describes two other community-governed blockchains: the L2 solution opBNB and the decentralized storage network Greenfield.

Among the latest achievements in the project were recalled:

BSC reached a throughput of 2000 TPS and processed 32 million transactions per day;
in opBNB the number of transactions in 2023 was 71 million at 4500 TPS;
The ecosystem has significantly improved security, reducing losses associated with hacking and fraud by 85%.

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Curious cases in the world of cryptocurrencies

1. Every 5 Venezuelans still mine crypto. Today, Venezuela lives in conditions of hyperinflation, which has not spared even the rare species of horse in the Caracas Zoo. The local currency is close to the status of “cut up pieces of paper”; the population lives in hunger and devastation, surviving as best they can. It’s good that he is helped in his life by cryptocurrency and representatives of the fauna, which began to disappear en masse.

2. 2 employees of the Crimean Council of Ministers organized mining at the expense of the department in its basement. Using free energy for them, they collected the crypt for five months (electricity consumption amounted to more than eleven thousand kilowatts). Each of them was fined 30,000 rubles.

3. Australian Camp Simpson purchased 1,400 bitcoins worth about twelve million dollars in 2010 and began storing them on his computer disk. A few months later, he broke up with his girlfriend and decided to throw everything that reminded him of her in the trash. The disk with the cryptocurrency went there. Camp reported that he had converted cryptocurrency into dollar equivalent more than once and had fallen into depression more than once.

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Curious cases in the world of cryptocurrencies part 2/2

Being a suspicious person, he decided to put the words of access to the wallet under his daughter’s pillow in case something happened to the couple, then let the children get the bitcoins. Upon returning home, he did not find the treasured words under his daughter’s pillow and realized that they had cleaned the house and thrown the note in the trash. No matter how hard he tried, Mark couldn’t remember the password.

Faunfelder began to live almost from hand to mouth, lost sleep, and various nightmares came into his head. It took six months to come up with a combination of the cherished words, and during this time three thousand dollars turned into thirty (!). Can you imagine what life was like for Mark during these six months, when Bitcoin was constantly growing and managed to increase ten times in relation to the investment?

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Curious cases in the world of cryptocurrencies part 1/2

US journalist Mark Fauenfelder lost access to the wallet on which he kept three thousand dollars worth of bitcoins purchased in early 2016, a little more than seven bitcoins in total. Seeing that the dollar equivalent of bitcoins was growing immeasurably, he purchased a Trezor hardware wallet to celebrate. To access the wallet, you had to come up with twenty-four words in any order so that you could protect it with a password.

The journalist wrote the words on a piece of paper and placed them in a secluded drawer of his desk. He wanted to engrave these words on a metal plate so as not to lose them. Mark needed to fly to Japan on business, and he took his wife with him.

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Jolly Bitcoin: one of the youngest crypto millionaires part 2

His family soon became interested in cryptocurrency and invested “a couple thousand dollars.” Turley, however, did not mention the amount of BTC or ETH he had, and as the value of his assets rose, Turley sold some of his cryptocurrency for USD Coin (USDC), as it is a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar.

He paid off his student debt, and on Mother's Day, Turley gave his mom a six-figure gift and paid off most of their mortgage.

"Financial freedom isn't the end state; it's just the beginning of being able to do really cool things in the world," Turley says.

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Jolly Bitcoin: one of the youngest crypto millionaires part 1

Cooper Turley is a 27-year-old cryptocurrency millionaire who has started investing not only in Bitcoin, but also in Ethereum (ETH). His early investments began 5 years ago when there weren't many trends in cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin was trading at around $2,000.

“I definitely don't feel like I've 'made it' by any means - there are a lot more people that are a lot better than me at crypto. But I’m really grateful,” Turley told CNBC.

He became very interested in cryptocurrencies, although experts suggested investing money that he could afford to lose, Turley went all-in. He was fascinated by the technology and thought he “could make a name for himself and become an expert in this industry.” generally".

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No Fun Bitcoin: Indian Prime Minister's Bitcoin Scam
Last December, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's account was hacked. Fraudsters spread a rumor that the government bought 500 BTC. Additionally, the now deleted tweet revealed that the Indian government has accepted Bitcoin as legal tender and the amount purchased will be distributed to residents.

The Prime Minister's Twitter account has more than 73 million followers. The tweet included a link asking people to donate Bitcoin to a Covid fund. The tweet said, “India has officially accepted Bitcoin as legal tender.”

“The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to everyone in the country,” the scammers wrote.

Modi is pushing for a ban on cryptocurrencies and has warned his Twitter followers that Bitcoin will “ruin our youth.”

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"The Funniest Bitcoin Story"
BitcoinTalk user Vinz1992 shared a story about a middle-aged couple who were scammed using Bitcoin. He said:

“A middle-aged couple recently bought 1 BTC for $1,000. They were happy beyond words at the good deal they got. So they contacted my friend to see how they could sell it.”

Vinz1992 added: “He sent them links to various articles and blog posts on how to buy and sell Bitcoin. The couple contacted him again and said they had been unable to sell the bitcoin. So my friend went and met them. They then showed him their bitcoins. It was a plastic coin with a Bitcoin symbol on it!”

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Reminder: Bitcoin Pizza Day
May 22, 2010, also known as “Bitcoin Pizza Day,” was the day the first commercial Bitcoin transaction occurred. Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer from Florida, bought two Papa John's pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins, which at the time was worth about $40.

Haniecz told The Sun he doesn't regret it. “I think it’s great that I became part of the early history of Bitcoin in this way.”

He mined these bitcoins using his own program, which used a computer graphics card, and bought these pizzas because, to him, “it was free pizza.”

“I mean, I coded this thing and I mined Bitcoin, and I felt like I was winning on the internet that day,” he added.

Haniecz's pizza made him one of the inductees into the Cryptocurrency Hall of Fame. If he had held these bitcoins until today, they would now be worth about $440 million

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StarCraft gaming competition in 2011.
In February 2011, the military-themed science fiction video game StarCraft hosted the iCCup Star League competition, which attracted 56 players from around the world. BTCsportsbet.com was one of the sponsors and the prize pool was just over $1,000, with the grand prize being $500 and 25 Bitcoin for the 5th to 8th place winners

Bitcoin was trading at $1.65 during the tournament and the total prize was $41.25. In addition, four players under the nicknames Sziky, Koll, Hejek and Jumper won 25 bitcoins each. There are no reports on whether the winners kept their bitcoins or not

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DOGE rate rose to $0.09 due to possible adoption of cryptocurrency by Ferrari

The Dogecoin cryptocurrency rate increased by 4% to $0.09. The growth was fueled by reports of the possible adoption of meme cryptocurrency by car manufacturer Ferrari.

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Circle Stops USDC Support on Tron

Circle has stopped supporting the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin on the Tron (TRX) blockchain. Most options are available until February next year. The TRX cryptocurrency rate continues to grow.

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The Ethereum (ETH) rate immediately exceeded $3,000. Now the figure is slightly lower. The asset remains likely to grow thanks to upcoming updates and possible ETF approval.

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