Category: Adoption & community
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Video: Connie Gallippi on BitGive and Bitcoin Charity
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdryPVwUll4?feature=oembed&w=640&h=360] Connie Gallippi is yet another example of an accomplished professional who discovered Bitcoin, fell down the rabbit hole, and decided to pursue a new life in which her skills and knowledge generate satoshis instead of U.S. dollars. After attending the inaugural Bitcoin Foundation conference with her brother in 2013, Gallippi came up with…
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On Lightning, Messaging Apps Emerge as Growing Use Case
“Does instant messaging over Lightning have killer application potential?” Lightning Labs developer Joost Jager asked his Twitter followers this rhetorical when he debuted a demo for his Lightning Network messaging application, Whatsat. Does instant messaging over Lightning have killer application potential? The world needs censorship-resistant chatting and with Lightning, compensating the network for message relay…
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LightningCashback Wants to Replace Fiat Change With Sats
As bitcoin grows as a medium of exchange and Bitcoiners become all the more interested in stacking sats as part of their daily activity, services are popping up that merge the worlds of everyday, brick-and-mortar retail and the original cryptocurrency. LightningCashback is the latest iteration of this trend, created specifically to bring bitcoin into the…
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Evercoin 2 Joins the Mobile Hardware Wallet Market
On November 12, 2019, during the Invest: NYC event, bitcoin wallet and exchange Evercoin announced the launch of a new, mobile-first hardware wallet: Evercoin 2. The new product is available for both iPhones and Android devices and was developed in collaboration with influential, security-oriented hardware manufacturer Yubico. Evercoin 2 uses the hardware specifications of the…
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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review
Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review brings you the most critical, interesting and popular news stories affecting Bitcoin this week. BTC Bullion: Three Interpretations of Bitcoin as “Digital Gold” For much of its existence, bitcoin has been compared with gold. Several people have touted the two assets as the most effective investment vehicles for hedging against…
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Bitcoin Magazine Week in Review
Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review brings you the most critical, interesting and popular news stories affecting Bitcoin this week. Darknet Markets Can’t Live With — or Without — Bitcoin When many people think of Bitcoin, they think of the dark web platform Silk Road — one of the world’s notorious digital marketplaces upon which vendors…
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Podcast: Pei CEO Tom Bachar on Changing Cash-Back Rewards With Bitcoin
People will always need banking but now, more than ever, we’re beginning to see that people don’t necessarily need banks. Emerging apps such as Pei offer consumers opportunities to grow their finances without relying on credit card companies. In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Dave Hollerith interviews Tom Bachar, co-founder and CEO of…
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Video: Vitus Zeller on Team Satoshi and Bitcoin Advocacy Through Sports
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQItTifa3do?start=9&feature=oembed&w=640&h=360] German entrepreneur and Bitcoin enthusiast Vitus Zeller began his Team Satoshi athletic initiative in January 2019. By virtue of the #TeamSatoshi hashtag (now popular among Bitcoin sports enthusiasts), a worldwide torch is passed on Twitter between marathon runners who embrace and promote the values of sound money. In this exclusive Bitcoin Magazine interview,…
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Coinkite Publishes Everything You Need to Build Your Own Coldcard Wallet
In a blog post published on October 25, 2019, Coinkite released all of the information needed for users to build their own versions of its hardware wallet, the Coldcard. The post contains the complete circuit diagram of the device, accompanied by a list of off-the-shelf parts that can be purchased to start the DIY project.…
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Why Bitcoin Is the Perfect Haven for Argentines in This Economic Crunch
Between the characteristic Latin American lifestyle, the friendly people and the buzzing nightlife, Argentina is a joy to visit. For locals, however, it’s not an easy place to live in. For the eighth time in its 209-year history and the second time in the past 13 years, the country finds itself entering into billions of…