Speaking remotely at theB Word Conferencetoday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric car company is ‘likely’ to resume accepting payment for its vehicles in the cryptocurrency, after pausing the option in May. “I wanted a little bit more due diligence to confirm that the percentage of renewable energy usage is most likely at or above 50%, and that there is a trend towards increasing that number, and if so Tesla would resume accepting Bitcoin,” said Musk, echoing a statement he’d tweeted in June....

Update (13:15PM CET, July 27, 2021):Added response from Amazon that denied reports that it plans to soon accept Bitcoin payments. Bitcoin soared 12.5% to nearly $40,000 on Monday amid speculation that Amazon plans to start accepting cryptocurrencies for payments. Bitcoin briefly surged above $39,000, its highest price since mid-June, while Ether and other digital currencies also rose. The rally followed mounting rumors about Amazon’s crypto plans, triggered bylast week’s discoveryof a job ad for a “Digital Currency and Blockchain Product Lead” at the company....

Bitcoinis a peer-to-peer currency with no centralized authority, that provides some level of anonymity to its users. Those behind it claim that it has the potential to change the way our economies work. But you already knew all of that: Bitcoin has been around for quite a few years, but in the last few months it has received more attention and discussion than in its whole lifespan. This attention, in tandem with the limited supply of currency, has seen huge, leaping increases in the value of each Bitcoin in USD....

According to areport by AdAge,Bitlyhas pushed out new reputation monitoring and social search features for its popular link shortening and analytics service. Since Twitter has decided to take control of short URL’s to do its own analytics service, Bitly has been forced to look elsewhere for growth and customers. The company has decided to focus on real-time reputation monitoring, so companies knows exactly who is talking about them, what they are saying, and where they are saying it....

After a year and a half in testing, domain shortening serviceBitlyhas moved its Bitly Pro service out of beta and straight into its core offering, now providing domain shortening and link analytics completely free of charge. The service notes in anofficial blog postthat it now powers over 10,000 custom short domains but will allow any new user to register their own URL for free and without a waiting period. All that a user needs to do is change the DNS settings to point to Bit....