Category: Cryptocurrency

  • Bitcoin Is The Move

    Why A Bitcoin Investment Is A Massively Underrated Opportunity In Today’s Macro Landscape Torres del Paine, Torres de Paine, Chili. Photo by Marc Thunis on Unsplash Preface We live in interesting times. With the advances in technology and the proliferation of the internet  —  software is eating the world. Coming out of the Great Recession…

  • Video: The Early Days Of Bitcoin With Vake

    In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Meet The Taco Plebs,” I was joined by my good friend, “a man of the people,” Vake. He has been on the Bitcoin scene for a lot longer than many and provided some quality insight into what was going on around BTC in 2013 and 2014. Vake is a…

  • Scarce City’s Lightning Auctions Debut Fetches 1 Bitcoin For BTC-Themed Art

    At Scarce City, a marketplace for fine, Bitcoin-based goods, we’ve just sold a piece of artwork for 1 bitcoin in our debut Lightning Auction. Lightning Auctions is a first-of-its-kind online marketplace that instantly and anonymously collateralizes bids on goods with minimal fees using the Lightning Network. Participants pay a Lightning invoice with each bid that…

  • Scarce City’s Lightning Auctions Debut Fetches 1 Bitcoin For BTC-Themed Art

    At Scarce City, a marketplace for fine, Bitcoin-based goods, we’ve just sold a piece of artwork for 1 bitcoin in our debut Lightning Auction. Lightning Auctions is a first-of-its-kind online marketplace that instantly and anonymously collateralizes bids on goods with minimal fees using the Lightning Network. Participants pay a Lightning invoice with each bid that…

  • Video: RSK, Federated Sidechains And Powpeg

    Video: RSK, Federated Sidechains And Powpeg

    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 RSK’s shift from a federated sidechain model to the project’s new Powpeg solution. RSK is a merge-mined, Ethereum-like Bitcoin sidechain developed by IOVlabs. Bitcoin users can effectively move their coins…

  • In A Socially-Distant World, Bitcoin Is Common Ground

    Bitcoiners have a unique ability to immediately hit it off with other Bitcoiners. This may not sound extraordinary on the surface, but this powerful interpersonal quality of instant connection is a vastly underrated feature of the Bitcoin network. Especially in an increasingly polarized and socially-distanced world.  Outside of Bitcoin, the only thing humans seem to…

  • Clever DeFi Launches 888 Cycle Challenge

    Clever DeFi Launches 888 Cycle Challenge

    PRESS RELEASE. Decentralized finance protocol CLEVER (CLVA) launches its latest program called “Will you take the 888 cycle challenge’’. The program offers a guaranteed interest model that enables users to earn compound interest paid fortnightly to all CLVA token holders. This is achieved by placing all CLVA token holders on a pre-programmed routine cycle schedule…

  • MassMutual Buys $100 Million Worth Of Bitcoin

    The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has jumped on the Bitcoin hype train with the announcement of its purchase of $100 million in BTC for its general insurance account, which totaled almost $235 billion as of September, according to the Wall Street Journal. This continues an ongoing trend of companies and institutions diving headfirst into…

  • MassMutual Buys $100 Million Worth Of Bitcoin

    The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has jumped on the Bitcoin hype train with the announcement of its purchase of $100 million in BTC for its general insurance account, which totaled almost $235 billion as of September, according to the Wall Street Journal. This continues an ongoing trend of companies and institutions diving headfirst into…

  • Video: Breaking Down The STABLE Act With Pierre Rochard

    Listen To The Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast On this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host BranBTC sat down with everyone’s favorite Bitcoin maximalist Pierre Rochard to discuss the STABLE Act that was recently introduced to the public by members of the U.S. Congress. Rochard initially took a broad view on the topic,…