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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
On October 8th, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a cryptocurrency enforcement framework in response to the "emerging threats" associated with the continued adoption of Bitcoin and related technologies. Attorney General William Barr, who runs a Cyber-Digital Task Force, commented on the publication: Cryptocurrency is a
News • Bitcoin • Oct 07, 2020
On October 8th, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a cryptocurrency enforcement framework in response to the "emerging threats" associated with the continued adoption of Bitcoin and related technologies. Attorney General William Barr, who runs a Cyber-Digital Task Force, commented on the publication: Cryptocurrency is a
News • Bitcoin • Oct 07, 2020
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.
News • Bitcoin • Oct 07, 2020
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
News • Bitcoin • Oct 07, 2020
Real Vision Group CEO Raoul Pal foresees an impending “big move” for Bitcoin in the near term. On his Twitter account, Pal shared a tweet showing that Bitcoin's historic 30-day volatility has dropped to 20% a total of seven times since 2016. Every time Bitcoin’s 30-day volatility
News • Bitcoin • Oct 07, 2020
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&
News • Bitcoin • Oct 07, 2020
Meet Woleet Sign, a refreshingly different newcomer in the eSignature world. The new web application is developed by Woleet, a French startup created in 2016 that specializes in using Bitcoin as a global public notary to store digital proofs of signed documents at scale. Woleet initially started as a time-stamping
Press Release • Bitcoin • Oct 06, 2020
Bitcoin sidechain Rootstock (RSK) has integrated MakerDAO's DAI through the RSK-Ethereum Token Bridge, as per an announcement on October 6th. The dollar-pegged stablecoin is now accessible to all Bitcoin-backed applications on RSK. RSK is a federated sidechain aimed at enabling Ethereum-like smart contract capabilities for Bitcoin. RBTC, the
News • Bitcoin • Oct 06, 2020
One part of a 40-piece artwork tribute to Bitcoin’s 12.3 million-digit code is going under the hammer at auction house Christie's in New York on October 7th, allowing enthusiasts to purchase and save a symbolic physical piece of the pioneer cryptocurrency forever. Up for sale at
News • Bitcoin • Oct 06, 2020