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Blockstream Launches On-Demand Lightning Node Service
Blockstream Launches On-Demand Lightning Node Service
News  -  Business  -  Jul 20, 2021 by Thomas M

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

EU Commission Seeks to Ban Anonymous Crypto Wallets
EU Commission Seeks to Ban Anonymous Crypto Wallets
News  -  Politics  -  Jul 19, 2021 by Thomas M

The EU Commission has released an extensive set of proposals to tighten its anti-money laundering legislation. The package includes a number of measures, all of which are looking to further increase monetary surveillance in the EU. Aside from an EU-wide ban on cash payments exceeding €10,000, what may interest

Elon Musk Says Tesla Likely to Accept Bitcoin Again in the Future
Elon Musk Says Tesla Likely to Accept Bitcoin Again in the Future

Long-awaited by some members of the Bitcoin space, Elon Musk joined Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood on Wednesday for "the talk" at Square's Bitcoin conference 'The B Word.' The Tesla and SpaceX CEO's discussion with Dorsey and

News  -  Bitcoin  -  Jul 20, 2021
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Elon Musk Says Tesla Likely to Accept Bitcoin Again in the Future
Elon Musk Says Tesla Likely to Accept Bitcoin Again in the Future

Long-awaited by some members of the Bitcoin space, Elon Musk joined Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood on Wednesday for "the talk" at Square's Bitcoin conference 'The B Word.' The Tesla and SpaceX CEO's discussion with Dorsey and

News  -  Bitcoin  -  Jul 20, 2021
Blockstream Launches On-Demand Lightning Node Service
Blockstream Launches On-Demand Lightning Node Service

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

News  -  Business  -  Jul 20, 2021
EU Commission Seeks to Ban Anonymous Crypto Wallets
EU Commission Seeks to Ban Anonymous Crypto Wallets

The EU Commission has released an extensive set of proposals to tighten its anti-money laundering legislation. The package includes a number of measures, all of which are looking to further increase monetary surveillance in the EU. Aside from an EU-wide ban on cash payments exceeding €10,000, what may interest

News  -  Politics  -  Jul 19, 2021
Draft Bill for Legal Bitcoin Framework in Turkey Ready for Parliament: Deputy Finance Minister
Draft Bill for Legal Bitcoin Framework in Turkey Ready for Parliament: Deputy Finance Minister

Turkey's Deputy Minister of Treasury and Finance Sakir Ercan Gül is set to present a draft bill to parliament providing a regulatory framework for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies later this year. Besides setting clear licensing requirements for local exchanges and introducing minimum capital requirements for cryptocurrency companies, the

News  -  Politics  -  Jul 18, 2021
Bitcoin Is the Only Way to Fix Inflation: Mayor of Jackson, Tennessee
Bitcoin Is the Only Way to Fix Inflation: Mayor of Jackson, Tennessee

Scott Conger, the mayor of Jackson in the U.S. state Tennessee, took to Twitter on Thursday to vent what appeared like frustrations that had built up for quite some time. "Every year, our dollar is worth less," he wrote, voicing his concerns about inflation. "6.3%

News  -  Politics  -  Jul 15, 2021
J.P. Morgan Says Bitcoin Is Too Illiquid to Be Legal Tender. Are They Right?
J.P. Morgan Says Bitcoin Is Too Illiquid to Be Legal Tender. Are They Right?

Illiquidity could place a “significant limitation" on Bitcoin's use as a medium of exchange in El Salvador, according to analysts from J.P. Morgan. The banking behemoth's report was released last Thursday and reported on by Bloomberg on Sunday. It references El Salvador's

News  -  Bitcoin  -  Jul 14, 2021
ECB Says Digital Euro Will Be More Climate-Friendly Than Bitcoin
ECB Says Digital Euro Will Be More Climate-Friendly Than Bitcoin

Likely to nobody's surprise, the European Central Bank's (ECB) research on the concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) has now reached its next step: the official launch of a digital euro project. In November last year, the ECB had initially launched a public survey

News  -  Economy  -  Jul 13, 2021
$2 Trillion Investment Firm Takes 12.2% Stake in MicroStrategy
$2 Trillion Investment Firm Takes 12.2% Stake in MicroStrategy

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.

News  -  Business  -  Jul 13, 2021
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