Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, announced the company has purchased an additional 480 BTC for its treasury holdings. The company now holds a total of 129,699 BTC with a total cost basis of $3.8 billion. Saylor recently provided a list of 10 t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
This is an opinion editorial by Anita Posch, founder of Bitcoin For Fairness. Recently, one of my followers from Zambia asked, "Why has the price of bitcoin gone down in the last few months?" While I usually don't talk about price movements, because...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
The idea of sidechains as a scaling and feature extension mechanism for Bitcoin is a very old concept. A kind of basic "ancestor" idea of sidechains, merge mined chains, even goes back to before Satoshi disappeared. That proposal was simply the idea...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
The below is a direct excerpt of Marty's Bent Issue #1231: “BIP 324 would bring encryption to bitcoin's P2P layer and it needs some review.” Sign up for the newsletter here. Visualizing how encrypting data can obfuscate network connections...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
This is a recording of a recent Twitter Spaces conversation about the Australian baseball team, Perth Heat, moving to a bitcoin standard. Listen To This Twitter Spaces: Transcript [0:06] Perth Heat: We had a great experience of credit to the whole...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
This is an opinion editorial by Marie Poteriaieva, a Ukrainian-French crypto industry observer and educator, following the space since 2016. Bitcoin is routinely treated as an environmental pariah: its energy consumption is quite simple to track and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
This is an opinion editorial by Leon Wankum, one of the first financial economics students to write a thesis about Bitcoin in 2015. As I walk through the ruins of Machu Picchu, an Incan citadel built in the heights of the Andes Mountains in Peru and...
