Last month, the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) pertaining to the integration of Taproot and Schnorr signatures were merged into the Bitcoin Core Github. As the BTC Times reported, 150 Bitcoin Core developers approved the merge after seven weeks of review following a merge request first created by Pieter Wuille.   Schnorr

Many of us dabble with Bitcoin but seldom actually get our hands dirty in the nitty-gritty - yet that's often where the benefits lie. Hosting your own Bitcoin node, for example, not only steadies and decentralizes the network, but it can confer greater user privacy and security.  For

Starting early October, the number of unique addresses on the Bitcoin blockchain has seen a significant surge.  Number of uniquely identifiable Bitcoin wallet users. Source: Willy Woo, Glassnode Square's Bitcoin Purchase Sped Up Adoption Analyst Willy Woo describes unique Bitcoin addresses with a balance above zero as “Bitcoin

PayPal made waves in October when the global financial technology giant made public that it would begin supporting Bitcoin alongside a number of other cryptocurrencies. Now it appears that the firm's involvement in the space may be more nuanced than first announced, statements from executives indicate.  When PayPal

In the four years since the previous U.S. presidential election, Bitcoin has appreciated by nearly 2,000%.  On November 8th, 2016, the day of the election that made Donald Trump president, Bitcoin traded at approximately $700, while today, one coin goes for $14,300 - a gain of more

As European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde confirmed the institution is considering the launch of a digital euro, the ECB has launched a public survey for consumers to express their preferences with regards to a central bank-issued digital euro. The revelation comes after U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome

Underscoring Bitcoin's recent rally are strong on-chain trends, according to a number of analysts.  On-chain Bitcoin specialist Willy Woo noted that while BTC is still far from its $20,000 all-time high, his NVT Price metric recently set a new all-time high.  The NVT (Network Value to Transactions

Lightning Network development startup Lightning Labs is rolling out a new product: dubbed Lightning Pool, the new tool seeks to bring together node operators to trade access inbound and outbound Lightning channel capacity with each other. With the launch, Lightning Labs tackles one of the Lightning Network's major