How to Use Bitcoin in a Sentence

Bitcoin

noun
  • Bettmann Archive Why did Bitcoin come to be?
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Still, the price of Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, has risen in the past year.
    Kevin Collier, NBC News, 2023-11-21
  • Now the Bitcoin creator is getting the big-screen treatment.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Similar claims were made with the advent of Bitcoin with respect to banks and the state.
    IEEE Spectrum, 2023-11-19
  • The scammers convinced the victim to withdraw money and use it to buy Bitcoin and gift cards.
    cleveland, 2023-07-22
  • The price of Bitcoin was largely unaffected by the Fed rate hike pause.
    Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 2023-06-14
  • Blackrock has been in the news lately over its proposal for a spot Bitcoin ETF.
    Byjustin Doom, Fortune Crypto, 2023-07-24
  • What’s next for Bitcoin? Is the Apple Heart the next great innovation?
    Quartz, 2024-06-06
  • The largest cryptocurrency is Bitcoin, but others exist like Ethereum and Solana.
    Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 2024-12-21
  • The proof of impact has already been shown — 60% of sports fans have purchased NFTs and Bitcoin.
    Michael Schreiber, Rolling Stone, 2023-04-21
  • Callers will claim to detonate a (nonexistent) bomb in a store unless staff pay a ransom, usually in Bitcoin or gift cards.
    Byalan Murray, Fortune, 2023-06-26
  • Connor also told the couple that transferring their money into Bitcoin would be the most secure way to protect their savings.
    Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 2025-05-15
  • In 2022, a new Bitcoin mining facility made its home in Granbury, a small rural Texas town.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 2024-07-25
  • In many ways, the race for Bitcoin mining superiority has caused some countries to head directly towards calamity.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2023-10-30
  • Fidelity, the asset manager, has a pending application for a Bitcoin fund.
    David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 2023-11-16
  • The two efforts have begun to overlap, with Trump Media recently announcing plans to raise funds to purchase Bitcoin.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-05-31
  • But in 2023, another industry moved in: Bitcoin miners.
    Ryan Weeks, Bloomberg.com, 2024-06-13
  • President Bukele says El Salvador is now making a profit on Bitcoin investment.
    Daniel Dana, ABC News, 2023-12-13
  • Sasser paid for the order through Bitcoin purchases over the span of several months, totaling about $9,750, the complaint states.
    Tina Burnside, CNN, 2023-06-10
  • Red Dog Casino accepts Bitcoin among other payment methods, the site is easy to navigate, and there are over 150 games in total.
    Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 2024-04-10
  • Genoot said the new firm would accumulate the cryptocurrency through both mining and buying, and Hut 8 will lease data centers to American Bitcoin.
    CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Answer: The idea of owning cryptocurrency in a 401(k) is a tempting one, especially given Bitcoin's rally last year.
    Amy Wagner, The Enquirer, 2025-07-02
  • Last year, Germany shut down the servers for the infamous Russian darknet marketplace Hydra and seized around seizing €23 million worth of Bitcoin.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 2023-05-02
  • To remove our least expensive and most accessible coin in the new age of Bitcoin, the exclusive currency of the wealthy few, would send a terrible message to ordinary Americans.
    Harold Holzer, New York Daily News, 2025-02-13
  • Cryptocurrency French chipmaker Sequans is the latest company aiming to build a corporate Bitcoin treasury.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The intention is to ensure students worldwide interested in Bitcoin get the relevant resources and opportunities to contribute to the Bitcoin space.
    Abubakar Nur Khalil, Forbes, 2025-01-09
  • The central bank is moving to bring down interest rates, rather than raising them, and last week its chair, Jerome Powell, compared Bitcoin to gold as an investment asset—an argument that many promoters of cryptocurrencies have made.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2024-12-09
  • Alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, the agency published data on Tron, Avalanche, Stellar, and Ethereum layer-2 networks, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In Atlanta, hackers demanded $51,000 in Bitcoin, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in 2018.
    Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025
  • During his panel, the American businessman and former reality TV presenter also showered praise on Simon Gerovich, president and CEO of Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025

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