Bitcoiners spend a lot of time thinking about how a malicious actor could attack the network. We tend to assume that the adversary is attacking for monetary incentives, but what if the attacker is not economically rational? What if the attacker is not motivated by financial gain, but narcissistic tendencies
The recently released “Bitsneaks” is a project that Bitrefill and NBA Star Spencer Dinwiddie collaborated on in order to release the world’s most high-tech sneaker. The shoes are able to display the live Bitcoin price, block height, and other metrics on a sleek flexible LED-matrix screen. Free cellular data
On April 14th, 2022 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced on their quarterly earnings call that the company was able to hit their target of $7 billion in net profit and explained that there is still a high demand for electronics. However, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining was not mentioned during
On April 14th, 2022 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced on their quarterly earnings call that the company was able to hit their target of $7 billion in net profit and explained that there is still a high demand for electronics. However, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining was not mentioned during
Bitcoiners spend a lot of time thinking about how a malicious actor could attack the network. We tend to assume that the adversary is attacking for monetary incentives, but what if the attacker is not economically rational? What if the attacker is not motivated by financial gain, but narcissistic tendencies
The recently released “Bitsneaks” is a project that Bitrefill and NBA Star Spencer Dinwiddie collaborated on in order to release the world’s most high-tech sneaker. The shoes are able to display the live Bitcoin price, block height, and other metrics on a sleek flexible LED-matrix screen. Free cellular data
The founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao otherwise known as CZ, spoke highly of France’s recent regulations on Wednesday at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit. "France has some very pro-business, pro-crypto regulations and also just (the) government's attitude towards this industry ... has been phenomenal." Despite recent
Crusoe Energy is a Bitcoin mining company that takes advantage of flared gas that would have otherwise been wasted energy to power their Bitcoin mining equipment.
The explosive incident occurred near one of Crusoe's mining operations, but was luckily far enough away to effect anyone or any mining
Bitcoin 2022 wrapped up the third day of a robust lineup of speakers and panels. Here's a quick recap of some of the interesting panels and announcements so far.
Legislation and Bitcoin
A large component of day 3 was the discussion around politics and Bitcoin. Grant McCarthy, one
Jack Mallers, CEO of Strike, announced at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference in Miami that his company has partnered with Shopify, NCR, and Blackhawk Network. These payment providers work with the majority of major U.S. companies like McDonald’s, Walmart, Walgreens, Home Depot, Best Buy, Chipotle, Starbucks, Whole Foods, and
Merchants that leverage BitPay's payment processing platform can now receive payments from lightning wallets which enables cheaper and faster transactions.
BitPay has served as a Bitcoin payment processor for merchants since 2011. Naturally, since BitPay is one of the oldest companies in the space, they have accrued one
