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Last week, the BTC Times reported that Bitcoin was strongly outperforming altcoins as it passed $12,000. On the day of our report, the leading cryptocurrency gained approximately 2% as the price of Ethereum fell by approximately 3%. One theory of Bitcoin's strong performance versus altcoins is based
Today marks the Bitcoin white paper's 12th birthday: on October 31st of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published to the Cryptography Mailing List the nine pages that made history. Since then, the world’s first peer-to-peer electronic cash system has come a long way. Since Satoshi sent the first 50
Lightning Network development startup Lightning Labs is rolling out a new product: dubbed Lightning Pool, the new tool seeks to bring together node operators to trade access inbound and outbound Lightning channel capacity with each other. With the launch, Lightning Labs tackles one of the Lightning Network's major
News • Bitcoin • Oct 30, 2020
Lightning Network development startup Lightning Labs is rolling out a new product: dubbed Lightning Pool, the new tool seeks to bring together node operators to trade access inbound and outbound Lightning channel capacity with each other. With the launch, Lightning Labs tackles one of the Lightning Network's major
News • Bitcoin • Oct 30, 2020
Last week, the BTC Times reported that Bitcoin was strongly outperforming altcoins as it passed $12,000. On the day of our report, the leading cryptocurrency gained approximately 2% as the price of Ethereum fell by approximately 3%. One theory of Bitcoin's strong performance versus altcoins is based
News • Bitcoin • Oct 30, 2020
Today marks the Bitcoin white paper's 12th birthday: on October 31st of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published to the Cryptography Mailing List the nine pages that made history. Since then, the world’s first peer-to-peer electronic cash system has come a long way. Since Satoshi sent the first 50
News • Bitcoin • Oct 29, 2020
Non-custodial Bitcoin desktop wallet Wasabi Wallet has gained considerable traction since its launch as a preferred tool for bitcoiners seeking increased transactional privacy. Wasabi is possibly best known for its integrated CoinJoin solution, a privacy-enhancing technology that obfuscates the origin of UTXOs. On Thursday, the developers behind Wasabi Wallet announced
News • Bitcoin • Oct 29, 2020
Iranian media outlet Iran Daily reports that the Iranian cabinet has amended regulations to allow Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to be used to fund imports. Citing IRNA, Iran Daily notes that this new legislation will allow the central bank of Iran to acquire digital assets directly from miners within the
News • Bitcoin • Oct 29, 2020
Avanti has received a bank charter from the Wyoming State Banking Board with a unanimous 8-0 vote. The approval allows the Bitcoin- and crypto-focused bank the same authority as national banks in the U.S. The First Digital Asset-Focused Bank in the U.S. Caitlin Long, CEO of Avanti who
News • Bitcoin • Oct 28, 2020
MicroStrategy 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, 2020
In August and September, MicroStrategy made headlines when it deployed $425 million into Bitcoin over the span of tens of thousands of buying orders. In total, the business services company acquired more than 38,250 bitcoin, for an overall cost basis of $11,111 per coin. This investment represented a
News • Bitcoin • Oct 27, 2020