Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream announced the launch of the AQUA wallet earlier today, as per a release shared with the BTC Times. The wallet marks the second mobile wallet project under Blockstream's umbrella, after the firm acquired GreenAddress in 2016. AQUA will initially be available on iOS and

Today, a patent involving the acceleration of cryptographic operations on elliptic curves has expired. Invented by Gallant, Lambert, and Vanstone, this technique is commonly referred to as GLV Endomorphism and can now be activated in Bitcoin Core in order to improve the speed and efficiency of Bitcoin’s signature verification.

According to Philip Swift, a Bitcoin analyst and the creator of LookIntoBitcoin.com, sufficient technical and fundamental evidence hint Bitcoin is at an early stage of a bull market. Swift cited the Spent Output Profit Ratio (SOPR) indicator of Glassnode to suggest a bullish trend might soon materialize.  The Bitcoin

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor is sold on Bitcoin’s promise of a global hedge against fiat currencies and inflation, he noted in a recent interview with Bloomberg. Saylor said the U.S. Federal Reserve's incessant money printing - it has issued over $2 trillion this year alone -

The Magical Crypto Friends have joined forces with MMO game development company Pixelmatic to host a Bitcoin conference with a virtual reality (VR) twist. The coronavirus pandemic has curbed nearly every Bitcoin conference in 2020. Government restrictions, lockdowns, and travel bans led to a host of events being canceled and

Following a period of two months of consolidation, Bitcoin underwent a strong breakout at the end of July that took it from the $9,000s to a high at $12,500. But since those highs in late August, Bitcoin has undergone a correction that brought it as low as $9,

Three power plants in Iran have been given the green light to provide their surplus energy to Bitcoin miners to ramp up their revenue and ease pressure on the national grid. The head of Iran's Thermal Power Plant Holding Company (TPPH), Mohsen Tarztalab, announced the news yesterday, revealing

The difficulty of mining Bitcoin hit a new all-time high on September 20th, continuing its uptrend since the halving in May this year. PlanB, the creator of the stock-to-flow (S2F) model, commented on the numbers, suggesting Bitcoin is en route to $100,000 with mining difficulty rising "like clockwork.