Twitter to Begin Cryptocurrency Payouts for Creators. This Week’s Top Bitcoin and Crypto News

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Our lead story this week is Twitter signing on as the first company to use Stripe’s new cryptocurrency payments feature.

The value of the USDC stablecoin is pegged to the US dollar, which makes the value less volatile than that of other cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin.

Twitter will draw on Stripe’s cryptocurrency payments feature by offering it as an option to creators who sell premium content to their followers, such as those who receive earnings from Twitter’s paid Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows features.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on Wednesday released the beta version of a feature that’ll allow users to buy and sell NFTs on its platform.

A battle over how and if cryptocurrency mining should be allowed to operate is heating up in New York, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Buying enough electricity to mine cryptocurrency is expensive, and crypto miners need uninterrupted access to power around the clock.

In an odd turn of events, a hacker stole $1 million in crypto from a decentralized finance protocol called Zeed, then failed to get it out.

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