Will Heasman
Will is a freelance journalist and copywriter based in London. He's covered the crypto industry in various roles for several years after becoming enamored with the space in 2014.
Many of us dabble with Bitcoin but seldom actually get our hands dirty in the nitty-gritty - yet that's often where the benefits lie. Hosting your own Bitcoin node, for example, not only steadies and decentralizes the network, but it can confer greater user privacy and security. For
News • Bitcoin • Nov 04, 2020MicroStrategy can't get enough of Bitcoin. After accumulating 38,250 bitcoin between August and September, the firm wants more. “You should expect that we will purchase additional bitcoin as we generate cash beyond what we need to run the business on a day to day basis,” MicroStrategy President
News • Bitcoin • Oct 27, 2020Last week, peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform Hodl Hodl unveiled Lend, a Bitcoin-centric lending platform promising to recast Bitcoin's lending sector by scrapping fiat, KYC, and custody. Capitalizing on the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi), Lend opts for a peer-to-peer, non-custodial paradigm, in which users can collateralize bitcoin to
News • Bitcoin • Oct 25, 2020Paypal is entering the cryptocurrency space: the firm has announced it will allow account holders in the U.S. to buy, sell, and hold bitcoin in their PayPal wallets over the coming weeks. The payments giant will also enable users to spend bitcoin through its network of 26 million merchants
News • Bitcoin • Oct 20, 2020It's closing time for ROOM77; the self-avowed "restaurant at the end of capitalism." The Berlin-based cypherpunk watering hole is among the first-ever bars to embrace Bitcoin - not just as a means of payments, but as a concept too. The news was broken by Bitcoin activist,
Feature • Bitcoin • Oct 18, 2020Bitcoin’s hash rate, a measure of network power, hit its zenith this week, which, according to Max Keiser, could signify the beginning of the end for fiat. Bitcoin's hash rate has annexed approximately 60% to its total hash rate since the halving in May, climbing from a
News • Bitcoin • Oct 14, 2020Spanish crypto investors may soon be required by law to disclose their holdings along with any profit gained following newly passed regulation. According to Maria Jesus Montero, the Spanish minister of finance who unveiled the news on Tuesday, crypto disclosure comes as part of a larger legislative package trained at
News • Bitcoin • Oct 12, 2020