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Twitter’s board of directors agreed Monday to accept a US$44 billion buyout offer made by billionaire Elon Musk. After the news broke, Musk, who made the surprise offer less than two weeks ago, said he is the right person to “unlock” the social networking company’s “extraordinary potential.” In a meeting late Monday, Twitter’s board voted unanimously to accept Musk’s offer of US$26 billion in cash and stock for each share of Twitter stock, a…

Monero, the privacy-focused cryptocurrency project, announced plans this week to perform a hard fork to implement some improvements to the network. $XRM, Monero’s native coin, has skyrocketed in price since the announcement. Monero developers confirmed Tuesday in a GitHub post that the protocol will undergo an upgrade to implement fee changes and network security improvements. The upgrade will be implemented via a hard fork and is expected t…

Belgrano, Buenos Aires – As the cryptocurrency craze continues to sweep the nation, one construction company is looking to capitalize on the trend. Landium’s new real estate project, called Next Pampa 2.0, claims to have no expenses thanks to a Bitcoin farm that will be located underground. The project seeks to use cryptocurrency mining in order to lower building expenses to zero. While residents would still have to pay utility bills, they w…