Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream is launching an on-demand Lightning node service to support users looking to set up a node with little effort. The company announced the new all-in-one service on Wednesday via a press release shared with the BTC Times. Called Greenlight, the service is built on top of

Another multi-trillion asset manager has entered the Bitcoin game: Capital International Investors, a division of Capital Group, which itself is an investment firm with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management, has purchased 953,242 shares in business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, according to an SEC filing released last week.

Bitcoin miner HIVE Blockchain Technologies has added 3,019 new MicroBT WhatsMiner M30S machines to its fleet. The new additions will boost HIVE's hash rate by around 46%, the company said in an announcement on Monday. The high-performance machines have an aggregate hash rate of 264 petahashes per

Circle seeks to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) that would place its valuation at $4.5 billion. The news became public on Thursday, when Circle announced the planned merger with Concord Acquisition Corp., making the firm the latest in a list of cryptocurrency

German neobank N26 is working to enable Bitcoin and other cyptocurrency purchases for its seven million customers by the end of the year. The move comes although N26 co-founder Valentin Stalf is not exactly a Bitcoin fan, as German finance magazine Finance FWD reports. However, "the customers want crypto,

Bitcoin privacy wallet Wasabi has set out on a mission to make Bitcoin privacy more user-friendly. As the BTC Times reported last year, the developers behind Wasabi seek to make certain privacy best practices "effortless" — the pursuit tackles what some see as a major pain point in the

Last weekend saw a wave of new restrictions come crashing down on cryptocurrency exchanges throughout the world.   The primary crackdown targets were leveraged trading and other risky derivative products, although major exchanges were also barred from operating in certain jurisdictions altogether. Binance and Huobi, two of the largest exchanges in

MicroStrategy now holds more than 100,000 bitcoin, currently worth over $3 billion in value.  The business intelligence firm has long become the largest publicly listed HODLer. Less than a year after its initial $250 million purchase, MicroStrategy has now cracked the 100,000 bitcoin mark, meaning just under 5%