Andrew Yang

On September 11th, MicroStrategy notified the SEC that it had adopted a new Treasury Reserve Policy. In Item 8.01 of the filing, the company noted that its bitcoin holdings “may increase beyond the $250 million investment that the Company disclosed on August 11, 2020.” The notification comes after the

Throughout the history of Bitcoin, games have played a recurring role in the leading cryptocurrency’s adoption. Online dice-based betting game Satoshi Dice was one of the earliest and most popular game applications that gained traction in the Bitcoin space. Just three weeks after its official launch on bitcointalk.org

Bitcoin Core has taken a significant step forward in implementing Schnorr signatures by merging BIP340 support into the libsecp256k1 library. The update introduces an experimental module named “schnorrsig” that implements the signing and verification of Schnorr signatures as well as test vectors and a benchmarking tool. Although this does not

Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream announced that it has joined the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a day after the non-profit organization was launched by Square.  According to its official website, COPA seeks to prevent “patent lockups” of cryptocurrency technologies, which may hinder smaller companies from leveraging technological developments, stifling growth

Lightning-based Bitcoin derivatives trading platform LN Markets announced it has closed a pre-seed funding round with investors such as Bitfinex, Fulgur Ventures, and Arcane Crypto. LN Markets told the BTC Times that since launching their alpha in March earlier this year, it had aggregated over $10 million in total volume,

On Saturday, the team behind open-source privacy wallet Wasabi disclosed a vulnerability that could have been exploited to perform a denial-of-service (DOS) attack. The vulnerability had previously been disclosed by Trezor’s  Ondrej Vejpustek on May 10th via a PGP-encrypted message with a detailed explanation of the bug.  Although according

Colorado resident Bryan Conner Herrell has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for moderating disputes on the now defunct darknet marketplace AlphaBay.  AlphaBay formally launched on December 22nd, 2014, a month after the Silk Road was shut down by the FBI and Europol. It allowed the sale of similar

Swiss health insurance company Atupri Health Insurance announced on Monday that its customers will now be able to make payments using bitcoin or ether. According to the firm, users can set up the new payment method on their dashboard and start making cryptocurrency payments at no additional cost other than