Category: Crypto News

The blockchain truly is a marvelous piece of technology. A mechanism to timestamp the order of digital information without needing to depend on a centralized operator. A decentralized mechanism with no one in charge, that provides undeniably cryptographic guarantees around what data was added to the temporal record in...

Introduction Names can be both liberating and confining. When mankind gives something a name, we mark it with a label that helps us discuss our shared environment and experience. At the same time, a label can obscure something in preconceived notions. Labels can make it more difficult for us...

El Salvador, the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender, and to adopt a Bitcoin investment strategy for its national treasury, has now accumulated over $400 million worth of Bitcoin. President Nayib Bukele led the effort to pass a law making Bitcoin legal tender in 2021. Since then, the...

Nilam Resources, Inc., a precious metal mining company with principal assets in Peru, has announced it is entering into a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Xyberdata Ltd. to acquire 24,800 bitcoin. This agreement involves acquiring 100% of the common stock of a special purpose entity named MindWave, to be established in Mauritius,...

In the wake of ongoing peer-to-peer (P2P) clampdowns in Nigeria, the country’s Bitcoin community took a remarkable step towards empowerment by dedicating International Women’s Day to educating and uplifting women through Bitcoin education. On March 16, 2024, hundreds of women from diverse backgrounds ranging from students and entrepreneurs to...

The London Stock Exchange has announced that it will accept applications for the admission of Bitcoin Crypto Exchange-Traded Notes (ETNs) starting from April 8, 2024. This decision follows the Exchange’s earlier notice on March 11, indicating its intention to allow the trading of Crypto ETNs in the second quarter...

How will governments function in a world that has transitioned from fiat to hyperbitcoinization? This is a question that I have thought about recently, and I wanted to think through what happens to governments on a Bitcoin standard. The questions I have are the following: how will governments fund...

In a fireside chat today at the Bitcoin Investor Day by Reflexivity Research, Robert Mitchnick, the Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock, shared insights into the asset manager’s approach to Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the future of the crypto market. Mitchnick emphasized that Bitcoin remains, overwhelmingly, the top priority for BlackRock’s...

FTX’s collapse demonstrated the wisdom of segregating the activities of market making on the one hand (Alameda) from those of running an exchange (FTX) and a custodian (FTX again) on the other. However, the question of whether to segregate the activities of operating an exchange and a custodian is...

Bitcoin is a completely decentralized system, there is no ability to reverse payments, and there is no customer support line where you can call for help if you mess something up. When you take self-custody of your own Bitcoin, you and only you are responsible for the safety of...