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Paypal is entering the cryptocurrency space: the firm has announced it will allow account holders in the U.S. to buy, sell, and hold bitcoin in their PayPal wallets over the coming weeks. The payments giant will also enable users to spend bitcoin through its network of 26 million merchants
It's closing time for ROOM77; the self-avowed "restaurant at the end of capitalism." The Berlin-based cypherpunk watering hole is among the first-ever bars to embrace Bitcoin - not just as a means of payments, but as a concept too. The news was broken by Bitcoin activist,
Announced on October 23rd, Riccardo Casatta has received a grant of an undisclosed amount by Square Crypto. Square Crypto is the Bitcoin-focused development branch of $80 billion financial technology company Square. Casatta is a Blockstream engineer currently on sabbatical as he intends to work on the Bitcoin Development Kit with
News • Bitcoin • Oct 22, 2020
Announced on October 23rd, Riccardo Casatta has received a grant of an undisclosed amount by Square Crypto. Square Crypto is the Bitcoin-focused development branch of $80 billion financial technology company Square. Casatta is a Blockstream engineer currently on sabbatical as he intends to work on the Bitcoin Development Kit with
News • Bitcoin • Oct 22, 2020
Paypal is entering the cryptocurrency space: the firm has announced it will allow account holders in the U.S. to buy, sell, and hold bitcoin in their PayPal wallets over the coming weeks. The payments giant will also enable users to spend bitcoin through its network of 26 million merchants
News • Bitcoin • Oct 20, 2020
It's closing time for ROOM77; the self-avowed "restaurant at the end of capitalism." The Berlin-based cypherpunk watering hole is among the first-ever bars to embrace Bitcoin - not just as a means of payments, but as a concept too. The news was broken by Bitcoin activist,
Feature • Bitcoin • Oct 18, 2020
Moving in line with other central banks, the Bank of Spain is working to pursue digital currencies further, a new plan released on Friday indicates. The Spanish central bank, also known as Banco de España, released a strategic plan for its operations in the four years ahead. Along with noting
News • Technology • Oct 16, 2020
Bitcoin’s hash rate, a measure of network power, hit its zenith this week, which, according to Max Keiser, could signify the beginning of the end for fiat. Bitcoin's hash rate has annexed approximately 60% to its total hash rate since the halving in May, climbing from a
News • Bitcoin • Oct 14, 2020
The implementation of the Schnorr/Taproot consensus rules has been merged into Bitcoin Core. However, the upgrade's activation method has yet to be determined. The pull request was originally created by Bitcoin Core contributor Pieter Wuille on September 13th and has gone through extensive review and testing over
News • Bitcoin • Oct 14, 2020
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.
News • Bitcoin • Oct 07, 2020
One part of a 40-piece artwork tribute to Bitcoin’s 12.3 million-digit code is going under the hammer at auction house Christie's in New York on October 7th, allowing enthusiasts to purchase and save a symbolic physical piece of the pioneer cryptocurrency forever. Up for sale at
News • Bitcoin • Oct 06, 2020