Will Heasman

Within an open letter to global tech companies, the governments of seven countries demanded a paradoxical request: to put a stop to end-to-end encryption while upholding user privacy. The pleas, emerging from the UK, the U.S., New Zealand, Canada, India, Japan, and Australia, came in an apparent effort to

BlueWallet, a Bitcoin-based mobile wallet, just shipped its latest update. Among a litany of fixes, the wallet now allows users to mix coins, conferring additional transaction privacy. The inbuilt mixer, known as PayJoin, is a CoinJoin variant occurring between two parties that obscures transaction origins, making them harder to trace.

Square, the payments platform pioneered by Twitter CEO and Bitcoin evangelist Jack Dorsey, has purchased $50 million worth of bitcoin as part of its new investment strategy. Amounting to precisely 4,709 bitcoin, the purchase represents an aggregate 1% of the firm's total assets. "Square believes that

100x Group, holding company of embattled crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX operator HDR Global Trading Limited, has announced the replacement of CEO Arthur Hayes,  following CTFC charges of money laundering and illegally operating an unlicensed exchange. Within a blog post issued earlier today, BitMEX's parent company noted that Hayes&

Users of Bitcoin derivatives platform BitMEX have withdrawn over 32,200 bitcoin (approximately $337 million at press time) following CFTC charges of anti-money laundering violations and the arrest of the firm's CTO. As a result of the allegations, anxieties boiled up over potential BitMEX asset seizures, with many

Toffee, an online marketplace for digital goods, is partnering with fiat onramp Wyre to allow merchants to efficiently convert fiat payments into bitcoin - negating costly processing fees and jurisdictional banking restrictions. According to Toffee, the decision to integrate with a fiat onramp came, in part, due to the fact

The Magical Crypto Friends have joined forces with MMO game development company Pixelmatic to host a Bitcoin conference with a virtual reality (VR) twist. The coronavirus pandemic has curbed nearly every Bitcoin conference in 2020. Government restrictions, lockdowns, and travel bans led to a host of events being canceled and

Three power plants in Iran have been given the green light to provide their surplus energy to Bitcoin miners to ramp up their revenue and ease pressure on the national grid. The head of Iran's Thermal Power Plant Holding Company (TPPH), Mohsen Tarztalab, announced the news yesterday, revealing