Roger Ver was among the early cyberpunks and libertarians who gravitated to Twitter while trying to popularize crypto. Ver said in an interview that he’s optimistic Musk will end censorship on the social media platform.  Although he is referred to as an evangelical figure, he hasn’t been a

What is Bitcoin? To the uninitiated, this question sounds rather unexciting. They understand Bitcoin to be a cryptocurrency as it is repeatedly portrayed by the mainstream media. While this is true on a very superficial level, the common Bitcoiner would stress the fact that Bitcoin is more than just a

Citizens School, an educational institution in the UAE, will accept Bitcoin and Ethereum as a form of payment for tuition starting in September 2022. The school decided to adopt Bitcoin and Ethereum payment rails to aid parents by providing flexible payment options. The payment processor the school will use automatically

In a historical first for the Lightning network, Synonym, a Bitcoin-powered service provider, demonstrated the first Tether (USDT) transaction in a Lightning channel. This was the first time a mainnet stablecoin was bridged to Lightning. The transaction was performed using Omni, a platform for creating custom digital assets on the

On March 17th, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee held a hearing titled “Understanding the Role of Digital Assets in Illicit Finance,” which covered a broad range of topics. Issues such as how Russia could use digital assets to avoid sanctions and whether or not they should be allowed to,

A complicated, new crypto tax policy has recently been introduced in India. These new tax policies regarding virtual digital assets will prevent traders from offsetting their losses from trading one digital asset against the profits made with another. The new policy will likely incentivize traders to pick one virtual asset

On March 17th, 2022 Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and a number of her other colleagues introduced the Digital Asset Sanctions Compliance Enhancement Act of 2022. This bill is meant to prevent Russian persons (wealthy oligarchs and banks) from maneuvering around established sanctions with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.  While presenting the

On March 16th, 2022, Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN) and seven other Congress Members sent a formal letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission and Gary Gensler (SEC chair) regarding their investigations on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency companies.  Emmer tweeted a thread stating that his office received word from a number of