Amazing Crypto

Category: Cryptocurrency

  • Unboxing And Review: Hodlr Disk

    Unboxing And Review: Hodlr Disk

    In this Bitcoin Magazine unboxing, Christian Keroles took a look at the brand new and very impressive Hodlr Disk by Hodlr Swiss. The Hodlr Disk is a very impressive, robust and complete Bitcoin seed-back device. The team at Hodlr Swiss clearly thought through the main ways that a user would want to back up their…

  • Bitcoin-Based Lending And Savings Platform Ledn Raises $2.7 Million

    This morning, Toronto-based bitcoin lending and saving company Ledn announced a $2.7 million financing round led by White Star’s Digital Asset Fund, with participation from Darrow Holdings, Coinbase Ventures, Global Founders Capital, CMT Digital and Kingsway.  The Toronto-based company serves clients in over 100 countries by offering interest-paying savings accounts for bitcoin and USDC, as…

  • Chinese Mining Pool Poolin Acquires North American Competitor NovaBlock

    China-based mining pool Poolin, which contributes the second-largest amount of hash rate of any single entity on the Bitcoin network, has acquired NovaBlock, a North American pool with offices in St. Jose, California and Calgary, Canada. The takeover will net Poolin an additional 1,681.83  petahashes per second (PH/s) in mining capacity, per data from BTC.com,…

  • The Legacy Of Bitcoin Casinos Grows With The Technology

    This is a promoted article provided by 1xBit. Online gambling has been a use case for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for almost as long as the technology itself has existed. And as Bitcoin grows as a network, and more people around the world adopt bitcoin, it’s clear that the online casinos that embrace BTC-based gambling…

  • It’s Happening: Tesla Buys $1.5 Billion Of Bitcoin

    Elon Musk’s multi-billion dollar company, Tesla, has purchased an aggregate $1.5 billion of BTC and will begin to accept the cryptocurrency as payment, per a financial performance report filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2020. Per the filing, in January 2021 the company updated its…

  • Bitcoin Investment In 2021: What Should We Expect?

    The bitcoin price has surged about 300 percent over the last 12 months thanks to mainstream adoption and institutional interest. It has rallied massively to surpassing all-time highs of $41,000. At the time of this writing, the price is hovering around $35,000 and it will be interesting to watch traders’ reactions and price behavior for…

  • Bitcoin: A Hedge Against The Dystopian Present

    In a recent interview with Bloomberg, when asked about the potential of Bitcoin, Kenneth Rogoff, an economist and Harvard faculty member, conceded that the cryptocurrency has a future…. but only if the future is “dystopian” in nature. But what if the dystopian future is already here? Without wishing to engage in linguistic inflation, let us…

  • The Advantages And Drawbacks Of Replace By Fee

    The Advantages And Drawbacks Of Replace By Fee

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed replace by fee (RBF). RBF is a trick that lets unconfirmed transactions be replaced by conflicting transactions that include a higher fee. With RBF, users can essentially bump a transaction…

  • Review: “Layered Money” By Nik Bhatia

    “Those willing to accept bills and other forms of deferred settlement demonstrate to us that money is fundamentally hierarchical. If a merchant demanded gold payment upfront for the delivery of goods, it was his right to do so. But if another merchant accepted a bill that represented a promise to pay gold later, his willingness…

  • Interview: Bitcoin And Black America With Isaiah Jackson

    Interview: Bitcoin And Black America With Isaiah Jackson

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast On this episode of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” I had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with Isaiah Jackson to discuss his upcoming book, “Bitcoin And Black America Volume 2.”  Before the interview I read a copy of his first book which laid the…