Category: Cryptocurrency

  • CoinSpot Is Ideal Starting Point for Australian Investors to add Crypto to Portfolios in 2021

    CoinSpot Is Ideal Starting Point for Australian Investors to add Crypto to Portfolios in 2021

    PRESS RELEASE. As the most trusted platform to buy, sell and exchange Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 230 other cryptocurrency tokens for Australian investors, CoinSpot encourages people who have not yet explored the investment opportunities surrounding crypto to make this new year the time they get involved. Of the four largest crypto tokens, which include…

  • New Bitcoin Quest Contest Gives People a Chance to Locate Crypto Seeds Hidden in Pictures

    New Bitcoin Quest Contest Gives People a Chance to Locate Crypto Seeds Hidden in Pictures

    There’s an online-sleuthing contest starting on January 21st called “Bitcoin Quest,” where individuals can leverage their crypto-analytical skills to hunt for mnemonic bitcoin seed phrases hidden in artwork. Winners who drain the artwork’s crypto holdings will be able to win a Bitcoin Quest analyst certificate, 13 prizes worth $150 each, and three Satochip hardware wallets.…

  • Winning Hearts And Minds For Bitcoin

    We often encounter Bitcoiners who assert that Bitcoin is unstoppable and has already “won.”  We happen to agree with them. But the endgame has yet to play out, and it still has two potential paths. One is easy; the other is hard. On the easy path, positive narratives about Bitcoin outweigh negative ones. We experience…

  • Six-Digit Bitcoin Prices: Stock-to-Flow Creator Says BTC Value Model ‘On Track Like Clockwork’

    Six-Digit Bitcoin Prices: Stock-to-Flow Creator Says BTC Value Model ‘On Track Like Clockwork’

    Bitcoin prices have gone parabolic and the value is seemingly following along with the controversial stock-to-flow (S2F) model, according to the price model’s creator. This week, the Twitter handle dubbed “Plan B” said the “bitcoin stock-to-flow model [is] on track… like clockwork.” Stock-to-Flow Author Is Confident in the S2F Price Model Back in November 2020,…

  • The Lightning Network Basics

    The Lightning Network Basics

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss the basics of the Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s Layer 2 protocol for cheaper, faster and potentially more private transactions. Starting at the beginning, van Wirdum and Provoost explained that the Lightning…

  • Bitcoin And The Printing Press

    How Information-Freeing Innovation Shapes Society This is the story of two disruptive innovations, which arrived several centuries apart with remarkable similarities. It’s about the largely invisible technological forces that alter incentives of obedience and steer the evolution of how societies are organized. The Mistrust Of Institutions Trust is the key ingredient that enables us to…

  • Pass The Baton Already: Why Bitcoin Is Poised To Replace Gold

    There is a constant war of ideas being fought between gold bugs, like Peter Schiff, and supporters of bitcoin. In order to accurately compare and contrast gold and bitcoin, we will need to weigh each asset against the various attributes that make a given form of money good money. We will also need to dive…

  • Bitcoin Price Taps $41,970, Morgan Creek Partner Says ‘BTC Is a 10x Improvement on Gold’

    Bitcoin Price Taps $41,970, Morgan Creek Partner Says ‘BTC Is a 10x Improvement on Gold’

    Bitcoin’s price continues to move northbound, as the crypto asset’s value has touched another all-time high (ATH) this week reaching $41,970 per coin on Friday morning (EST). The digital asset bitcoin is now the 7th most valuable asset worldwide with an overall market valuation of around $778 billion today. Cryptocurrencies across the world have seen…

  • Could NFTs Become 2021’s Biggest Crypto Trend?

    Could NFTs Become 2021’s Biggest Crypto Trend?

    Even at this point in Bitcoin’s evolution, it’s still relatively rare for cryptocurrencies to hit mainstream news headlines unless volatility reaches dramatic extremes. It’s even more extraordinary for blockchain apps to get picked up by the global media. Cryptokitties is one of those rare exceptions. When it launched in December 2017, at the peak of…

  • Eligma Raises Additional €4 Million Equity Investment at €50 Million Valuation

    Eligma Raises Additional €4 Million Equity Investment at €50 Million Valuation

    PRESS RELEASE. Crypto payments startup Eligma has announced it recently completed a new funding round of €4 million at a €50 million valuation. The latest investment was funded by Roger Ver through Bitcoin.com, and was mainly initiated due to Eligma’s ongoing efforts to comply with any and all regulations. This approach to regulations has made…