Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
I’ll start by making a statement that is probably already known to many, especially bitcoiners: money is a form of energy. We expend energy to do work. Then, an agreed-upon form of remuneration that is commensurate with the amount of work put in is e...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
Today, US Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation to address her concerns surrounding the alleged misuse of digital currencies in illicit activities, citing money laundering, drug trafficking, sanctions evasion, and more.The bill, supported b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
This piece is an entirely and deeply serious parody.& Bitcoin mines aren’t just thirsty, it turns out they’re starving for air, too. The air consumption tied to a single Bitcoin transaction, on average, could be enough for a DINK couple to breath...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
The “bitcoin uses fossil fuels” argument has been increasingly breaking down in the face of new data from Bloomberg Intelligence showing the network is in fact the most sustainable-energy backed industry on the planet with 53% energy coming from sust...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
In a subtle yet significant move, Google has quietly adjusted its Crypto Ad Guidelines, ahead of the anticipated launch of a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) in the US.& Beginning& January 29, 2024, the search giant's revised policy will pe...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
Pro-Bitcoin candidate Javier Milei. Pro-Bitcoin president elect Javier Milei. Those sentences have been repeated all over by several outlets, content creators, or social media accounts focused on the Bitcoin space, all encouraging that Argentina’s ne...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
Pro-Bitcoin candidate Javier Milei. Pro-Bitcoin president elect Javier Milei. Those sentences have been repeated all over by several outlets, content creators, or social media accounts focused on the Bitcoin space, all encouraging that Argentina’s ne...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
BlackRock and Grayscale recently met with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), presumably to discuss the approval requirements for their spot Bitcoin ETF applications.Coinbase, which offers both Bitcoin custody and Bitcoin brokerage products...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
What do prostitutes, blackmailers, slumlords, and Bitcoin miners who censor transactions all have in common? What if I told you that they are modern-day heroes of the free market economy, bravely providing their economic services despite facing unive...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
In an era desperate for financial literacy, Cash App has taken a “kneaded” step with the launch of "BREAD," a free zine that fuses financial education with culture. The inaugural issue, aptly titled the "Bitcoin Issue," promises to demystify the worl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
Like most things, it’s hard to talk about the solution if we don’t properly define the problem first. So, let’s start there. Last week, Elon Musk and Andrew Ross Sorkin conducted an hour-long interview full of awkward and strange moments. For people...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Primary Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription.I always find it funny when I am attending a Bitcoin event like Bitcoin 2023 — or next year’s Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville —...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
SunnySide Digital, a global distributor of enterprise data center infrastructure, has announced a new partnership with Rosseau, to offer high-performance computing (HPC) and bitcoin mining clients immersion cooling technology. This collaboration prom...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
In a move aimed at democratizing access to self-custody for Bitcoin, Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ), led by CEO Jack Dorsey, has finally launched the pre-order for its new self-custody wallet, Bitkey, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. Th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine's premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
JAN3, a leading Bitcoin technology company, has unveiled its latest venture, JAN3 Financial, aimed at onboarding nation-states and high net worth individuals to Bitcoin, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. This move attempts to add...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
This article is featured in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Primary Issue”. Click here to get your Annual Bitcoin Magazine Subscription.“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”― H.L. MenckenVoting is sometimes fake, sometimes real....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
Testifying before the U.S. Congress today, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, stirred controversy by expressing his negative opinions on the Bitcoin and crypto market. The renowned banking executive stated that if he held a position in the gover...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
Satoshi Nakamoto is God and Bitcoin’s design is perfect. Or is it? There's one feature of the protocol that keeps bugging me: the Halvening (halving, whatever). I'm sure Naka thought this over. His first Bitcoin must have had an incremental reduction...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
The nature of money is tragically one of the most unexamined and vital questions in modern society. Over the course of history, different monetary systems have risen and fallen as technology progressed and new forms of money emerged that were superio...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
Last Monday, November 27, Whinstone Inc.’s private security entered the Rockdale, TX-based premises of Rhodium Enterprises in order to remove employees to cease operation of their 125MW Bitcoin mining facility. The legal battle that culminated in thi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
Last Monday, November 27, Whinstone Inc.’s private security entered the Rockdale, TX-based premises of Rhodium Enterprises in order to remove employees to cease operation of their 125MW Bitcoin mining facility. The legal battle that culminated in thi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
CrowdHealth, a crowdfunding platform for paying medical experiences in lieu of an insurance policy, is integrating Lightning payments with Breez’s Lightning SDK. The United States spends more than twice the average amount of money on healthcare in co...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
Marx tells us the revolution will be decentralized. The Have-nots will tire of the great inequity of capitalism, and the few thousand Haves will suffer from the worldwide rebellion they encouraged through their greed.Building central banks and contro...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 6 months ago
“It’s hard,” Harry Turtledove declared in 2001, in his Introduction to The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century, “to write about the effects of technology before there’s much in the way of technology to write about.” Two decades on, fut...