Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Botanix Labs, a Bitcoin development startup based in New York and founded at Harvard, has announced a significant funding of $11.5 million in a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.This funding round, led by prominent investors including UTXO Manag...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
It is often said that Bitcoin allows anyone to be their own bank. If you know anything about Bitcoinâs ethos and underlying tech, youâve likely heard of this concept before. But do you know exactly how that works and why Bitcoin is more suitable as a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Metaplanet, a decades-old Japanese Public company providing hospitality and technology-related services, recently announced a major strategic pivot - embracing Bitcoin as a core corporate treasury asset.Last month, Metaplanet revealed it acquired ove...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
You know how the dodo bird became extinct? It became too fat to fly. In fact, the name âdodoâ likely originated from the Portuguese word, âsimpletonâ. The dodo bird lived very comfortably for much of its existence on an isolated island that lacked an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
A little under a year ago, I announced on Twitter the idea of the Bitcoin Script Project. To say it was well received would be an understatement. Bitcoiners were craving something they could hang onto in the middle of the bear. Glimmers of hope were...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
The Bitcoin network has reached a major milestone, processing its one billionth transaction yesterday, an achievement comes 15 years and 4 months after Bitcoin's genesis block was mined on January 3, 2009.JUST IN: #Bitcoin has officially processed ov...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
âThe institutions are coming.âAnyone whoâs been in the Bitcoin space for any significant period of time has heard some prominent figure within the space utter this phrase.In August 2020, when MicroStrategy, an American-based business software company...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Fidelity, a major financial services firm, says pension funds are starting to explore investing in Bitcoin, particularly after the approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds earlier this year.BREAKING: Wall Street giant Fidelity says pension fund...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
In a Keynote address at MicroStrategy World: Bitcoin for Corporations, MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor delivered a masterclass on corporate finance and the power of bitcoin to supercharge corporate balance sheets. Saylor made a point...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
The last six months or so have seen several proposals for improvements to Bitcoin Script: CAT, 64-bit arithmetic, as well as some older ideas (CTV) and far-future ideas (Chialisp and Simplicity). This activity has largely overshadowed some revolution...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Microstrategyâs annual Bitcoin for Corporations conference has kicked off its second day, featuring conversations with leading finance, regulatory and fintech professionals on the future of corporate Bitcoin adoption.Discussions will center around th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
UPDATE: Additional blockchain analysis indicates this purchase was the result of a for-profit "sat hunting operation" that was programmatically buying and withdrawing Bitcoin from Binance. The article has been revised accordingly.One of just four rar...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Asset management giant BlackRock says it is seeing growing interest in Bitcoin ETFs from institutional players like sovereign wealth funds and pension funds. This comes after a hugely successful debut for BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF, iShares IBIT, which...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
BNP Paribas, the second largest European bank, has purchased exposure to Bitcoin via a spot ETF, per recent 13F filings with the SEC . The filings show BNP Paribas bought BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT).JUST IN: ???????? Second largest E...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Korok Ray, Bitcoin researcher and Associate Professor at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, announced plans to launch The Bitcoin Research Institute to drive academic research at the intersection of Bitcoin and artificial intellige...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
MicroStrategy revealed its latest innovation today, a decentralized identity (ID) platform built on the Bitcoin network, named MicroStrategy Orange, at the MicroStrategy World: Bitcoin for Corporations 2024 event.JUST IN: MicroStrategy launches an en...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Company Name: DEMANDFounders: Alejandro De La Torre and Filippo MerliDate Founded: 2023Location of Headquarters: Lisbon, Portugal and Florence, ItalyAmount of Bitcoin in Treasury: âCurrently being bootstrappedâNumber of Employees: 2Website: https://w...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
MicroStrategy, a leading enterprise business intelligence firm that has emerged as a pioneering Bitcoin advocate among public companies, is hosting its Bitcoin For Corporations conference starting today. The event is taking place May 1 - May 2, 2024...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Is OP_CAT happening? The covenants proposal was just assigned BIP number #347. But before we delve deeper, letâs explore what covenants are and why Bitcoiners may want them.Is Bitcoin an ideal state of digital e-cash or do we want more from our coins...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Hoseki, a leader in Bitcoin and blockchain verification solutions, has unveiled Hoseki Verified, a new verification product aimed at enhancing transparency and trust in the cryptocurrency industry, with a focus on spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (E...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Major global bank Standard Chartered believes the Bitcoin price could see further downside to around $50,000, according to recent comments. Geoffrey Kendrick, head of forex and digital assets research at Standard Chartered, told The Block: "BTC's pro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Roger Ver, a prominent early investor in Bitcoin and famously dubbed âBitcoin Jesus,â has been indicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on charges of mail fraud, tax evasion, and filing false tax returns. Ver was arrested over the weekend in Spain...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Remember that movie where Sandra Bullock crosses the entire country blindfolded because peaking outside means youâre basically facing a certain death? That must be how it feels to build anything in Bitcoin right now. Everyone is just moving blind. Th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 4 months ago
Bitcoin and crypto exchange Coinbase has integrated Bitcoin's Lightning Network, enabling faster and cheaper BTC transactions for its users in the United States (with the exception of New York). As the largest Bitcoin exchange globally by users, trad...