Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Coinbase, one of the world's largest Bitcoin and crypto exchanges, has received approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to offer Bitcoin buying and selling services to both retail and institutional investors in the country.This milest...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
The story of Ross Ulbricht is one that has captivated the Bitcoin community for years – a brilliant young mind, an entrepreneur with a passion for free markets, and the creator of the Silk Road, an anonymous e-commerce platform that operated on the f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
BTCPay Server has come a long way since Nicolas Dorier first decided to build out a software project with the goal of obsoleting the payment processor BitPay in response to their actions during the 2017 Blocksize Wars. It has blossomed since then int...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
It has officially been a decade since Ross Ulbricht, the man behind the popular online marketplace Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. His crime: enabling free people to freely trade.In the years since, his c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Do We Need CBDCs? Bitcoin Backstage with Cynthia LummisIn the world of digital currencies, two terms frequently come up for discussion - Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and Bitcoin. Both have gained significant attention in recent years, with...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Casey Rodamor, the creator of the Ordinals protocol and reference implementation, recently dropped a proposal for a replacement to the BRC-20 fungible token protocol: Runes. It took roughly seven hours before basic implementations were live and peopl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
One of the biggest challenges Bitcoin faces is scalability. Transactions can be slow and costly, making mainchain settlement less efficient for everyday transactional use. Enter the Lightning Network, an innovative solution that has the potential to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
In the world of finance, Bitcoin has emerged as a game-changer. This novel virtual form of money has the potential to revolutionize the global economy and transform the way the world conducts transactions. However, as with any disruptive innovation,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Andy Flury is founder and CEO of Wyden, a company providing institutional trading technology for digital assets.Over the past nine months, Bitcoin has seen a surge of around 50 percent. Blackrock, the world's largest asset manager, has applied for a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Digital transformation is rapidly shaping the global financial landscape, and bitcoin, the pioneering decentralized cryptocurrency, stands tall as a symbol of this revolution. While bitcoin's global popularity is undeniable, there's an emerging trend...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Three finalists have been selected for the Bitcoin Alpha Competition, a crowd-sourced campaign to find the next top Bitcoin fund manager. The manager with the most promising approach for generating alpha in the bitcoin market will be awarded $1 milli...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Withdrawal Issue”. Click here to subscribe now.A PDF pamphlet of this article is available for download.& Late last month, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators introduced the Financial Technology...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates.______________________________________________________________It's been two year...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Today, Bitcoin only exchange, Swan Bitcoin, welcomed NBA Champion Matthew Dellavedova to its team as Vice President of Business Development, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. Dellavedova is most well known for his illustrious pro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
These days we often wax eloquent about the “early days of Bitcoin” and the great visionaries who participated in the discussions on protocol development. However we often forget that the cypherpunks of olde were human too — that early oversights &...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
“Time-series analysis (Stern, 1993, 2000) shows that energy is needed in addition to capital and labor to explain the growth of GDP. But mainstream economics research has tended to downplay the importance of energy in economic growth. The principal m...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Taking place in Washington, D.C. today, an important policy event is set to delve into the growing geopolitical implications of Bitcoin as a technology for financial freedom, cross-border payments, and wealth protection.A collaboration between the no...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Earlier today, The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced their latest round of philanthropic efforts from their Bitcoin Development Fund. These 15 grants from HRF are focused on worldwide education, Bitcoin Core development, lightning-related DLCs,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
In a strongly-worded letter addressed to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler, a group of prominent U.S. Congressmen are calling for the immediate approval of spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). The bipartisan letter, si...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Casey Rodarmor, the mad genius creator behind Bitcoin Ordinals, has largely avoided the spotlight since March. A month and a half after launch, the Ordinals protocol exceeded any developer’s wildest dreams of adoption, long before it reached the curr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
This piece continues from A Most Ridiculous World: The Politicization of Energy from yesterday.& Feeding the Grown and the GrowingStern, Burke and Bruns (2016)7 concluded in their analysis that access to electricity is not sufficient for economic...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
AnchorWatch, a leading insurer specializing in safeguarding Bitcoin holdings for commercial entities, announced a successful $3 million funding round today. The round was led by Ten31, with notable participation from& Axiom BTC, Bitcoin Magazine...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Alliance Bernstein (AB), a prominent $646 billion asset manager, has predicted that the Bitcoin and crypto fund management industry is poised for remarkable growth, potentially reaching a staggering $650 billion within the next five years.& This...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Withdrawal Issue”.& Click here to subscribe now.A PDF pamphlet of this article is available for download.Chaumian ecash, a privacy-preserving payment system, was conceptualized in the early ’80s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 1 year ago
Many people these days are finally starting to realize the shortcomings and limitations of off-chain channels limited to two participants, i.e. the Lightning Network, and the necessity to start exploring designs for channels with more than two partic...