Bitcoin Opinion Archive

Governor of the Irish Central Bank proposing Crypto Ads ban for under 25’s

As recently reported in the Irish Independent, Gabriel Makhlouf, the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland has been speaking at the Oireachtas Finance Committee about crypto. In particular, he has raised concerns about crypto …

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LassoCoin is Working to Change Sports Ownership Forever

Starting with the English Football League, LassoCoin is creating the first-ever 100% crypto holder controlled sports team. LassoCoin will save a 100+ year old football club on the brink of bankruptcy due to COVID, providing …

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Chai-Yo Restaurant now accepting bitcoin payments for gift vouchers

We’re always happy to hear from local businesses getting into crypto, and the team at Chai-Yo Restaurant on Dublin’s Baggot Street has recently got in touch. The restaurant is well known for its Teppanyaki …

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The 7 richest Bitcoin owners

While people from Ireland are starting to hold investment and earn profit from Bitcoin, you’ll be hard-pressed to find many, if any, Irishmen or Irishwomen who have as much of the popular cryptocurrency as these …

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Why not to mine coins on your laptop – a €600 lesson

May 2018 update – This article was originally written in 2015, and remains valid when discussing bitcoin/BTC mining. However, in the meantime a variety of altcoins and forks of bitcoin can use GPU mining, although …

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Ten different Bitcoin/Blockchain Groups now exist

As time moves on, an increasing number of bitcoin and blockchain groups are emerging in Ireland. We thought we’d count them to uncover just how many are out there, and to our surprise there have now …

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If you're just getting started with cryptocurrency, there are several methods to get your first couple of euro of cryptocurrency to put in your wallet.

Did you know that the Crypto part of Revolut has a section called Learn? You can earn around €10 in free crypto from doing some lessons (and they've recently finally added the option to withdraw your bitcoin from your account to an external wallet address! )

Want to use your computer to mine cryptocurrency? Cudominer lets you mine a variety of cryptocurrencies. Read our Cudominer Review to see how it works. Note, this could potentially cause damage to your machine as we learned the hard way so do it at your own risk.

If you want to try a faucet to earn small amounts of crypto which pay out when you reach a certain threshold of bitcoin, you can roll the dice and potentially get up to $100 in bitcoin once an hour by registering with Free Bitco.in and doing their roll. Once you earn 0.0003 bitcoin, this is transferred to your nominated wallet.