Marathon Digital January Highlights
* 3.6 EH/s with 32,710 active miners
* 462.1 BTC mined
* 8,595 total BTC on hand as of 1/31
Marathon Digital Holdings just released their bitcoin mining production numbers, noting several large year-over-year increases. The first noted improvement was the production of
Former head of Meta’s cryptocurrency and fintech unit and co-founder of Diem, David Marcus, took to Twitter on Tuesday to vocalize his support for Bitcoin, predicting that it will be the “one asset and L1 still around in 20+ years.” Marcus spent years working on Meta’s Diem, a
On February 8th, OpenNode announced the end of their Series A funding round which was led by Kingsway Capital with additional investments from Twitter, Tim Draper, and Avon Ventures, a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments. Following the investment, OpenNode will focus on building Bitcoin and Lightning Network payments.
“OpenNode has believed
On February 8th, OpenNode announced the end of their Series A funding round which was led by Kingsway Capital with additional investments from Twitter, Tim Draper, and Avon Ventures, a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments. Following the investment, OpenNode will focus on building Bitcoin and Lightning Network payments.
“OpenNode has believed
Marathon Digital January Highlights
* 3.6 EH/s with 32,710 active miners
* 462.1 BTC mined
* 8,595 total BTC on hand as of 1/31
Marathon Digital Holdings just released their bitcoin mining production numbers, noting several large year-over-year increases. The first noted improvement was the production of
Former head of Meta’s cryptocurrency and fintech unit and co-founder of Diem, David Marcus, took to Twitter on Tuesday to vocalize his support for Bitcoin, predicting that it will be the “one asset and L1 still around in 20+ years.” Marcus spent years working on Meta’s Diem, a
The Chivo wallet is a government sponsored Bitcoin wallet for El Salvadoran citizens. Anyone who signed up for an account received $30 worth of bitcoin and could make free transactions in U.S. dollars or bitcoin. Released on September 7th, 2021 during Bitcoin Day, an estimated 500,000 users signed
The blog, published on January 26th, is titled “It’s time to preserve our right to transact privately”. Davidson details the Federal Reserve’s annual Diary of Consumer Payment Choice where the Fed reported that consumers used cash for only 19% of transactions in 2020, which was a 7% decrease
Impervious, the group that released a bundle of APIs last fall built on top of the Bitcoin Lightning Network, announced that they will be publicly releasing the Impervious Browser on April 7th, during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference. According to their newsletter published January 30, 2022, “following an enthusiastic reception of
Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest, a firm focused on disruptive innovation, released their “Big Ideas 2022” report last week. The firm expressed their belief that there are five “innovation platforms” that will generate significant equity market returns over the long term: artificial intelligence, robotics, battery technology, gene sequencing, and blockchain.
On January 28th, 2022, Trezor announced their decision to remove integration for the "Address Ownership Proof Protocol" (AOPP). The protocol was originally intended to help Swiss exchange users withdraw their bitcoin. In their twitter thread from January 27th, they recognize that “regular users can't get their
