El Salvador has big plans for Bitcoin: the Central American country seeks to become the first to declare Bitcoin legal tender and pave the way for wider adoption of Bitcoin among its population of 6.5 million. The efforts are led by Nayib Bukele, a Salvadorian businessman and the country&

Bitcoin proponents have long pushed back against frequently resurfacing concerns surrounding Bitcoin's carbon footprint. Now, a new collaborative effort might just deliver an argument Bitcoin mining critics will find themselves struggling to refute. Bitcoin infrastructure firm Blockstream has partnered with Jack Dorsey-led Square to build and open-source, solar-powered

Square is considering building a Bitcoin hardware wallet to encourage non-custodial bitcoin storage, as Square chief executive and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed in a Twitter thread on Friday. While the firm has not yet decided if and when it will introduce such a wallet to the market, Dorsey wants

Besides their first real-life Bitcoin get-together in over a year, 12,000 bitcoiners attending the Bitcoin 2021 Conference in Miami this week can look forward to a weekend filled with games and a prize pool of 1 bitcoin, worth just under $39,000 at press time. Hosted by gaming startup

A new Taproot signaling period has begun, and activation looks likely. Although it is only one day into the two-week signaling period, 97.92% of mined blocks have signaled readiness for Taproot deployment. The activation process follows the rules specified in Speedy Trial, which requires that 90% of blocks mined

Elon Musk and Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor have come under fire after announcing the formation of a Bitcoin Mining Council to promote sustainability initiatives. The Bitcoin Mining Council is the result of a meeting between North American Bitcoin miners who have committed to publishing the details of their renewable energy

Bitcoin mining firms BTC.TOP and Huobi Mall have reacted to recent developments surrounding Bitcoin mining in China. The move comes after a statement was published by the Financial Stability and Development Committee of China's State Council summarizing a State Council meeting held by Vice Premier Liu He

Like clockwork, China has released a number of statements over the past few days that shook the markets and, in part, the public perception of Bitcoin. Why like clockwork? Because among many long-time HODLers, the announcement has invoked memories from the past few years, which have seen numerous warnings, restrictions,