Amazing Crypto

Category: Cryptocurrency

  • How Large-Scale Bitcoin Mining Is Driving Clean Energy Innovation

    Energy consumption from Bitcoin mining is massive, and people are taking notice. The increases have been scaling fast, with mining energy usage quickly surpassing the totals of small countries. And many see this ever-increasing carbon footprint as a threat to climate change. But it’s no threat. In fact, increasing energy usage might save the plant. …

  • Interview: Faith In Bitcoin With Saint Bitcoin

    Interview: Faith In Bitcoin With Saint Bitcoin

    For this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by a longtime friend in the space, Saint Bitcoin (@Saint_BITCOIN). Saint is the host of the “Pleb Talk Podcast,” which is one of my personal favorites. Unfortunately, it is on hold at the moment until travel restrictions lighten up, and then Saint…

  • Strike Is Bringing The Lightning Network To More Than 200 Countries

    Today, Strike announced a global initiative to bring its Lightning Network payments application worldwide.  After a successful U.S. launch in 2020 and the announcement of its payday solution last week, Strike is rolling out its services to 200-plus countries. Through a partnership with Bittrex, Strike will onboard the exchange’s more than one million customers across…

  • SkyBridge Capital Says That “Bitcoin Is Better At Being Gold Than Gold”

    This week, Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital announced the launch of its investment thesis, presentation and full website for its new Bitcoin Fund LP. Unlike other investment firms, it went a step further in explaining why it is actively choosing bitcoin over gold. SkyBridge Capital’s main fund, with $9.3 billion in assets under management (AUM), has…

  • Bitcoin Sets New All Time High Spiking Over $35,000

    Bitcoin Sets New All Time High Spiking Over $35,000

    Bitcoin’s record-breaking start to the new year continued on January 5 after the top crypto set another new all-time high (ATH) of $35,879. Based on this new milestone, the top cryptocurrency has now surged by more than 20% in just the first of five days of the new year. Record-Breaking Start to 2021 Interestingly, the…

  • Onboarding Institutional Crypto Investors- Coinbase Helps Execute ‘One of the Largest Digital Asset Trades in History’

    Onboarding Institutional Crypto Investors- Coinbase Helps Execute ‘One of the Largest Digital Asset Trades in History’

    Over the last year, institutional investors have been flocking toward crypto assets like bitcoin and after Microstrategy’s initial bitcoin purchase, the trending institutional demand for crypto started swelling. On Tuesday, the San Francisco trading platform Coinbase published a study that details how the company helped the firm One River Asset Management make “one of the…

  • BIP 2021: Bitcoin’s Path Toward Reserve Currency Status Is Set

    BIP 2021: Bitcoin’s Path Toward Reserve Currency Status Is Set

    2020 was unforgettable, especially for Bitcoin. To help memorialize this year for our readers, we asked our network of contributors to reflect on Bitcoin’s price action, technological development, community growth and more in 2020, and to reflect on what all of this might mean for 2021. These writers responded with a collection of thoughtful and…

  • Interview: Sovryn Bitcoin With Edan Yago

    Interview: Sovryn Bitcoin With Edan Yago

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast In this week’s episode of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” host CK sat down with Edan Yago of the Sovryn project to discuss this initiative and how it is building decentralized infrastructure for Bitcoin.  Sovryn is like a company, except that it runs completely on bitcoin and…

  • Bitcoin’s Killer Application: “Skin In The Game”

    Bitcoin has soared in 2020 and everyone is talking about the price. But I want to talk about how Bitcoin is actually being used and the new capabilities it enables.  Sure, bitcoin is the hardest form of money that exists and the best store of value. But it is also the most practical form of…

  • Why 2021 Will Be A Big Year For Bitcoin

    2020 was unforgettable, especially for Bitcoin. To help memorialize this year for our readers, we asked our network of contributors to reflect on Bitcoin’s price action, technological development, community growth and more in 2020, and to reflect on what all of this might mean for 2021. These writers responded with a collection of thoughtful and…