Robert Kiyosaki Buying More Bitcoin — Warns SEC Regulations Will Crush Most Cryptocurrencies
2023-01-02
The Rich Dad Poor Dad author has been recommending investors buy gold, silver, and bitcoin for quite some time.Continue Reading
Dutch Bitcoin Exchange Files Preliminary Injunction to Suspend Wallet Verification Rule Enacted by the Netherlands
2021-01-31
Per the bitcoin exchange’s announcement, the additional know your customer (KYC) requirements imposed by the central bank violate users’ privacy. However, the crypto firm clarifies that the legal obligations “are not under discussion” within this case.Continue Reading
Snowden Puzzled by Bitcoin’s Lack of Scaling and Privacy, Says Devs ‘Had Years to Do It’
2020-12-25
Just recently, the film producer and well known Youtuber, Naomi Brockwell, sat down with Edward Snowden and the two discussed a number of subjects including privacy and bitcoin. When Snowden talked about bitcoin, he delved into the protocol’s lack of progressive scaling and privacy. The famous whistleblower said thatContinue Reading
Prediction: Bitcoin to Rival Gold as a Store of Value in the Digital Age Thanks to Halving
2020-02-10
The total market capitalization of gold is estimated to be above $7 trillion, which is over 38 times that of bitcoin at the moment. However, there are those that think that the cryptocurrency is a better store of value for our age than the precious metal. The latest takeContinue Reading
New Regency Television Wins Screen Rights to Onecoin Story – The Missing Cryptoqueen
2020-02-08
The story of Onecoin and cofounder Ruja Ignatova might be seen on television sets in the near future. Reports detail that New Regency Television International participated in a bid for the rights to the BBC Sounds podcast “The Missing Cryptoqueen.” New Regency Television Buys the Rights to The MissingContinue Reading
Bitcoin History Part 16: The First Mt. Gox Hack
2019-08-26
No one remembers the first Mt. Gox hack. It was a small sum, even by 2011’s standards, and the exchange reimbursed all users. The incident was to prove significant, however, for it set in motion a string of attacks on other bitcoin platforms that began the very next day.Continue Reading
Bitcoin History Part 15: Silk Road Is Born
2019-08-23
Silk Road launched in February 2011 as the darknet’s first bitcoin-based marketplace. Within four months, it would be the darknet’s most notorious site whose reputation extended all the way to the U.S. Senate. The origins of the drugs marketplace can be traced back further, however, to a philosophical threadContinue Reading
Samsung Adds Bitcoin Support to Its Blockchain Keystore
2019-08-16
On August 13, Samsung, the South Korean multinational conglomerate, published the company’s new Blockchain Keystore SDK for developers and the latest release supports Bitcoin Core (BTC). The version follows Samsung’s previous Keystore release which only supported ETH and the ERC20 standard. Samsung Quietly Adds BTC Support to Its BlockchainContinue Reading
Upcoming Mobile Payment Trends That You Can’t Afford to Ignore
2019-04-13
It is true that cash and cards are still ruling the fintech infrastructure, but mobile wallets have been gaining traction in the last couple of years. The younger generationis thrilled by the simplicity of mobile payments and can’t get enough of such novel innovations. In 2016, the mobile payment market wasContinue Reading
Bitcoin Cash Fans Start ‘Torch Passing’ Ceremony With a Non-Divisible Token
2019-03-13
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters have been passing around a different kind of ‘LN Trust Chain’ across forums and social media. The social experiment for passing digital value has taken a different path to the Lightning Torch because people can share the non-divisible SLP Torch onchain for fractions of aContinue Reading
Economics Professor on Ripple Board Misrepresents Bitcoin During Stanford Lecture
2019-03-03
A Stanford student has submitted a letter of complaint to the Graduate School Board stating that a resident economics professor grossly misrepresented Bitcoin during a guest lecture on blockchain and the future of finance, while openly promoting Ripple as a better alternative. Questionable Academic Integrity When Stanford student ConnerContinue Reading
Coinbase Reveals Its Procedure for Handling Contentious Forks
2019-02-26
On Feb. 20, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase gave the public an inside look at how the company deals with contentious forks. Coinbase engineer Breck Stodghill specifically discussed how the trading platform dealt with the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) split on November 15, 2018. Also read: ‘Bitcoin Killer’ OnecoinContinue Reading
Bitcoin’s Social Contract Must Be Resilient to the Whims of Future Generations
2019-02-16
Over the last few years, infighting and different visions has led to significant divides within the Bitcoin community, weakening the network effects no matter which chain you support. With all the arguments about scaling, privacy, consensus changes and the various forks, it is amazing that these public networks areContinue Reading
Bitcoin History Part 9: Mt. Gox Is Born
2019-01-27
“Hi everyone, I just put up a new bitcoin exchange. Please let me know what you think.” With those innocuous words, one of the most notorious sagas in Bitcoin’s early history began. The name of the exchange was Mt. Gox and it was to play a pivotal role inContinue Reading
