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On Wednesday, the market capitalization of bitcoin exceeded Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company. According to CompaniesMarketCap, a popular leaderboard that excludes many private assets, bitcoin ‘flippened’ the company for a few hours during Wall Street’s lunchtime.  That achievement came mere minutes after bitcoin surpassed a popular albeit imprecise measure of the world’s mined silver: 1,751,000 metric tonnes. Although bitcoin’s retracement to a $1.7 billion market cap on Thursday reinstated the $1.8 trillion Saudi Aramco to its higher rung, bitcoin is still higher than silver and very close to re-flippening Saudi Aramco. In any case, Bitcoiners are already looking past the oil giant and precious metal. Scanning toward the top of the list, they are seeking their next target to flippen . Historic moment: bitcoin's market cap just exceeded that of all the aboveground silver, the noble metal used as money for over 4,000 years. pic.twitter.com/4...

In a landmark development for the tech company, Google has updated its policy to allow Bitcoin and other crypto trust products to be advertised. Indeed, the policy change from the technology behemoth has gone into effect today and could make way for a variety of new crypto-centered ads on the search engine. Currently, BlackRock and VanEck are already advertising their Spot Bitcoin ETFs after the Google policy change. Indeed, the update says it will allow products as” advertisers offering Cryptocurrency Coin Trusts targeting the United States.” All 11 of the approved Spot Bitcoin ETFs are expected to advertise on the platform under the new policy. JUST IN: BlackRock & VanEck are now advertising Spot #Bitcoin ETFs on Google following new policy update. pic.twitter.com/5yysw6N1RV — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) January 29, 2024 Also Read: Spot Bitcoin ETF Google Searches Spike As Industry Confidence Prevails Google Now Allowing Crypto Ads Through New Poli...

Google announced the launch of its latest, most powerful AI model , Gemini. The AI is launch ing Wednesday and competes ag AI nst the popular Open AI alternative AI software, ChatGPT . The AI Model, according to Google, will have three sizes: Gemini Ultra: The largest, most capable category Gemini Pro: Scales across a wide range of tasks Gemini Nano: Meant for specific tasks and mobile devices Also Read: Switzerland City of Lugano Now Accepts Bitcoin & USDT for Taxes Furthermore, Google is planning to license Gemini to customers through Google Cloud for use in their applications. Additionally, it will power consumer-facing Google AI apps like the Bard chatbot and Search Generative Experience. Developers and enterprise customers can access Gemini Pro via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio starting on Dec. 13. Additionally, Android developers will also have access to Gemini Nano. In the company’s announcement, it gave examples including showing Gemi...