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.
Hardware wallet firm Ledger has rolled out its latest update for its mobile companion Ledger Live, rendering an additional layer of privacy controls for Bitcoin transactions. The new feature, dubbed "Coin Control," allows users of Ledger Live to manually select which addresses and which portion of funds to
News • Bitcoin • Sep 16, 2020Bakkt, the Bitcoin derivatives brainchild of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), reported a new all-time high for its Bitcoin futures offering yesterday, with an equivalent of $200 million swapping hands. With 15,955 futures contracts traded in a single day, Bakkt marks a 36% advance on its previous record of 12,
News • Bitcoin • Sep 15, 2020Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has all but doubled down on its initial $250 million bitcoin bet by loading up on a further 16,796 BTC, worth around $180 million at press time. Relaying the news, MicroStrategy's CEO Micheal Saylor explained, in no uncertain terms, the addition of thousands
News • Bitcoin • Sep 14, 2020Kazakhstan's new digital development minister Bagdat Mussin plans to reinforce the country's economy by expanding its crypto mining sector with a 300 billion tenges (approximately $715 million USD) investment. Talks of expansion are already underway. On Wednesday, Mussin made the case that fueled by the country&
News • Bitcoin • Sep 03, 2020The canton of Zug, Switzerland, colloquially known as "Crypto Valley," has taken an enormous stride toward cryptocurrency adoption by enabling tax settlement in bitcoin and ether. Zug will accept tax payments in both cryptocurrencies as early as 2021. Following a pilot expected to take place within the next
News • Bitcoin • Sep 02, 2020This article was updated with additional information on September 4th after the BTC Times received a response from SatoshiLabs. According to a developer of hardware wallet ShiftCrypto, an attack vector affecting KeepKey and Trezor devices could allow hackers to hold crypto funds ransom. The developer goes by Marko and writes
News • Bitcoin • Sep 02, 2020A "serious" ransomware attack on Tesla's Gigafactory was derailed after one plucky employee resisted a million-dollar bitcoin bribe from a Russian hacker. According to a complaint published by the Department of Justice last week, a Russian national was arrested for allegedly attempting to introduce malware to
News • Bitcoin • Sep 01, 2020