Through the Bitcoin Development Fund, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has given 20 BTC (around $475,000) to 10 international projects. With a focus on Africa and Southeast Asia, the funding will assist initiatives including censorship-resistant communication, Bitcoin education in authoritarian regimes, core development, and building local communities.
$100,000
For $43.6 million, CleanSpark Inc. has acquired 20,000 brand-new Antminer S19j Pro+ units and will pay $32.3 million after coupons.
Once deployed, the new set of miners will increase the company’s mining capacity by 37%, or 2.44 exahashes per second (EH/s). With 15,000
BlueWallet, a Bitcoin wallet available for both iOS and Android devices, has announced that their custodial Lightning wallet services will be discontinued by April 30th, 2023.
The company noted in a blog post that Lndhub.io, the Lightning node where BlueWallet offers Lightning wallets for its users, is sunsetting. Users
BlueWallet, a Bitcoin wallet available for both iOS and Android devices, has announced that their custodial Lightning wallet services will be discontinued by April 30th, 2023.
The company noted in a blog post that Lndhub.io, the Lightning node where BlueWallet offers Lightning wallets for its users, is sunsetting. Users
Through the Bitcoin Development Fund, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has given 20 BTC (around $475,000) to 10 international projects. With a focus on Africa and Southeast Asia, the funding will assist initiatives including censorship-resistant communication, Bitcoin education in authoritarian regimes, core development, and building local communities.
$100,000
For $43.6 million, CleanSpark Inc. has acquired 20,000 brand-new Antminer S19j Pro+ units and will pay $32.3 million after coupons.
Once deployed, the new set of miners will increase the company’s mining capacity by 37%, or 2.44 exahashes per second (EH/s). With 15,000
The state of Wyoming has approved legislation that protects its residents from being required to disclose their private keys. It now just needs the Governor’s signature to become law after being passed by the state Senate and House of Representatives.
The bill reads:
No person shall be compelled to
After operating for more than ten years, the Finland-based peer-to-peer (P2P) Bitcoin platform LocalBitcoins, is shutting down operations. On February 9th, LocalBitcoins announced that the company was ceasing operations due to challenging market conditions.
LocalBitcoins CEO Nikolaus Kangas stated that “regardless of our efforts to overcome challenges and turn our
According to a UK court, Craig Wright cannot assert any copyright claims regarding Bitcoin’s code.
Wright was unable to provide evidence of what is known as “fixation,” in order to support his claim that the formatting of Bitcoin blocks is his intellectual property. Fixation describes the capacity to present
Bitcoin miner Hut 8 and US Bitcoin Corp. have agreed to merge. Under the newly formed Hut 8 Corp., both companies are now wholly owned subsidiaries.
The press release states that “the transaction is expected to establish [Hut 8 Corp.] as a large-scale, publicly traded Bitcoin miner focused on economical
Just days after the UK announced the next stages of its plan to regulate Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, Australia seems to have followed suit.
In a new announcement, Australia’s government has unveiled the first step of what is being called a “multi-stage plan” to regulate Bitcoin and crypto.
“The multi‑
