Obi Nwosu is the CEO and co-founder of Coinfloor, the UK's longest-running Bitcoin exchange. He has over 20 years’ experience building online marketplaces and bringing virtual currencies to tens of millions of people. Obi writes The Road to Bitcoin Hegemony, a weekly recap of some of the most

The difficulty of mining Bitcoin hit a new all-time high on September 20th, continuing its uptrend since the halving in May this year. PlanB, the creator of the stock-to-flow (S2F) model, commented on the numbers, suggesting Bitcoin is en route to $100,000 with mining difficulty rising "like clockwork.

The Los Angeles-based domain registrar service Namecheap on September 17th announced that it will be supporting Bitcoin payments made through BTCPay, an open-source, self-hosted cryptocurrency payment processor focused on security, privacy, and censorship-resistance. Namecheap chief executive Richard Kirkendall revealed the move in a tweet: This is not the company'

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

As of the morning of September 16th, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has the approval to become "America's first crypto bank." Kraken's Chief Legal officer Marco Santori broke the news in a Twitter thread, outlining what this means for the long-time Bitcoin startup. Kraken is launching

Bakkt, 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,

On Wednesday, Lightning Labs announced the addition of an accounting feature as part of the latest release of Faraday, a management tool for node operators using LND, Lightning Labs' implementation of the Lightning Network. According to Lightning Labs, the accounting tools were developed in response to feedback from business

Aviatrade, a private airplane sales company, unveiled a new payment platform last week that allows the well-heeled to purchase multimillion-dollar private jets using bitcoin, according to a report by Business Insider. First on the catalog is a six-year-old Gulfstream G650ER, a private jet with a $40 million sticker price and