Bitcoin startup Zap is launching a cash back option for users of its Lightning payment app Strike. The feature called “Cashback by Strike” allows users to earn money back on Strike when they make payments via the Lightning Network.
Strike is a platform created by Zap that enables Lightning payments
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the U.S. made several changes to the new draft of Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return. One of the alternations concerns Bitcoin users, as the agency changed the placement of the controversial “virtual currency” tax declaration section.
The IRS moved the
On August 20th, peer-to-peer exchange platform Bisq shared it had processed its 70,000th trade, after facilitating 20,000 trades in the previous six months.
Bisq hits 70,000 all-time trades. Source: Bisq
Bisq processes crypto-to-fiat and crypto-to-crypto trades without a third party. Bisq’s official GitHub page describes the
On August 20th, peer-to-peer exchange platform Bisq shared it had processed its 70,000th trade, after facilitating 20,000 trades in the previous six months.
Bisq hits 70,000 all-time trades. Source: Bisq
Bisq processes crypto-to-fiat and crypto-to-crypto trades without a third party. Bisq’s official GitHub page describes the
Bitcoin startup Zap is launching a cash back option for users of its Lightning payment app Strike. The feature called “Cashback by Strike” allows users to earn money back on Strike when they make payments via the Lightning Network.
Strike is a platform created by Zap that enables Lightning payments
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the U.S. made several changes to the new draft of Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return. One of the alternations concerns Bitcoin users, as the agency changed the placement of the controversial “virtual currency” tax declaration section.
The IRS moved the
The newly released minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee’s July 28 and 29th meeting has sent shockwaves through the global financial markets, not stopping at Bitcoin’s price action.
The overall tone of the meeting was grim, with committee members expressing concerns over how the ongoing pandemic may
According to the on-chain market analysis firm Glassnode, Bitcoin reserves on exchanges in August fell to a level unseen since June 2019. This indicates that retail investors are not intending to to sell their bitcoin.
When retail investors move to sell their bitcoin holdings, they typically send their funds to
According to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), hedge funds are net short the U.S. dollar for the first time in two years. The decline in demand for the dollar could benefit Bitcoin in the long term as it is increasingly perceived as a store of value.
Conflicts within the Bitcoin Cash development community are resulting in another Bitcoin Cash “coin split” – that is, a segment of the Bitcoin Cash community will unilateraly deploy a hard fork upgrade to create a new forkcoin – striking a heavy blow to the already embattled altcoin.
The Bitcoin Cash community is
Investment firm Grayscale’s assets under management surpassed $6 billion USD for the first time, the firm’s CEO Barry Silbert shared, showing a continuous increase in institutional demand for Bitcoin.
Grayscale operates various regulated publicly-traded investment vehicles that tailor to accredited and institutional investors.
The firm’s most widely-used
