Within an open letter to global tech companies, the governments of seven countries demanded a paradoxical request: to put a stop to end-to-end encryption while upholding user privacy. The pleas, emerging from the UK, the U.S., New Zealand, Canada, India, Japan, and Australia, came in an apparent effort to

While it's unclear if Tesla is looking to get involved in Bitcoin at a corporate level, Tesla employees can apparently dollar-cost average into the leading cryptocurrency at Bitcoin automated teller machines (ATM) inside its first Gigafactory.  Will Reeves, CEO of payments app Fold, noted on October 10th that

The number of bitcoin on cryptocurrency exchanges has been rapidly declining, indicating a significant drop in selling pressure. Bitcoin reserves of exchanges often indicate whether there is selling pressure as bitcoin holders typically deposit to exchanges to sell their holdings. When Bitcoin exchange reserves substantially drop over an extended period

Samuel Reed, the former Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX, was released after a $5 million appearance bond had been approved by U.S. courts last week, according to court documents. Reed was required to pay a $500,000 security on the unsecured bond, the document

According to data from the on-chain market analysis firm Glassnode, whales appear to be actively accumulating Bitcoin. Bitcoin addresses holding over 1,000 bitcoin. Source: Glassnode Since the March 13th crash, when the Bitcoin price briefly dropped below $3,600, the number of Bitcoin addresses holding over 1,000 bitcoin

On October 8th, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released a cryptocurrency enforcement framework in response to the "emerging threats" associated with the continued adoption of Bitcoin and related technologies. Attorney General William Barr, who runs a Cyber-Digital Task Force, commented on the publication:  Cryptocurrency is a

BlueWallet, a Bitcoin-based mobile wallet, just shipped its latest update. Among a litany of fixes, the wallet now allows users to mix coins, conferring additional transaction privacy. The inbuilt mixer, known as PayJoin, is a CoinJoin variant occurring between two parties that obscures transaction origins, making them harder to trace.

Square, the payments platform pioneered by Twitter CEO and Bitcoin evangelist Jack Dorsey, has purchased $50 million worth of bitcoin as part of its new investment strategy. Amounting to precisely 4,709 bitcoin, the purchase represents an aggregate 1% of the firm's total assets. "Square believes that