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A recent test by Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp revealed that enabling the GLV Endomorphism implementation for Bitcoin Core can make the network faster and more efficient by several notches. Lopp tweeted Monday, “I ran 4 different syncs of Bitcoin Core to benchmark the real-world performance improvements offered by enabling GLV
Underscoring the strength of the Bitcoin market, Austria-based cryptocurrency broker Bitpanda announced on September 29th that it had just concluded a $52 million Series A funding round. The round saw participation from Valar Ventures, a venture fund backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, alongside other known and unnamed investors. Bitpanda
Twitter and Cash App founder Jack Dorsey stirred up controversy in the Bitcoin community after his comments on a recent “mission-driven” policy by crypto exchange Coinbase attracted bouquets from some, and brickbats from others. Dorsey said in a tweet earlier today, “Bitcoin (aka crypto) is direct activism against an unverifiable
News - Bitcoin - Sep 30, 2020Twitter and Cash App founder Jack Dorsey stirred up controversy in the Bitcoin community after his comments on a recent “mission-driven” policy by crypto exchange Coinbase attracted bouquets from some, and brickbats from others. Dorsey said in a tweet earlier today, “Bitcoin (aka crypto) is direct activism against an unverifiable
News - Bitcoin - Sep 30, 2020A recent test by Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp revealed that enabling the GLV Endomorphism implementation for Bitcoin Core can make the network faster and more efficient by several notches. Lopp tweeted Monday, “I ran 4 different syncs of Bitcoin Core to benchmark the real-world performance improvements offered by enabling GLV
News - Bitcoin - Sep 30, 2020Underscoring the strength of the Bitcoin market, Austria-based cryptocurrency broker Bitpanda announced on September 29th that it had just concluded a $52 million Series A funding round. The round saw participation from Valar Ventures, a venture fund backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, alongside other known and unnamed investors. Bitpanda
News - Bitcoin - Sep 29, 2020Cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer now supports cross-border trading on its platform, as per a release shared with the BTC Times. The new feature will give the exchange's European users direct access to one of the largest Bitcoin markets in the world: Japan. Bringing Euros to the Japanese Bitcoin Market
News - Bitcoin - Sep 28, 2020Toffee, an online marketplace for digital goods, is partnering with fiat onramp Wyre to allow merchants to efficiently convert fiat payments into bitcoin - negating costly processing fees and jurisdictional banking restrictions. According to Toffee, the decision to integrate with a fiat onramp came, in part, due to the fact
News - Bitcoin - Sep 28, 2020TDEX, a non-custodial exchange that utilizes the Liquid Network, is now open for early access and aims to tap into the burgeoning peer-to-peer trading space for all Liquid assets, as per a release shared with the BTC Times. Bringing Non-Custodial Trading to the Liquid Network Built by development and consulting
News - Bitcoin - Sep 27, 2020For over four years, OpenBazaar has been servicing the Bitcoin industry by providing a platform that allows users to buy and sell products using bitcoin, without a middleman. While the platform is known by many in the Bitcoin space, OB1, the team behind the project, announced on September 25th that
News - Bitcoin - Sep 27, 2020A new rewards app will pay you in bitcoin for shopping at its online partners - and it’s already live in Poland. The Satsback app is a Bitcoin cash back rewards platform that allows users to “stack sats” - a colloquial term for accumulating satoshis, the smallest unit of
News - Bitcoin - Sep 26, 2020