Category: Cryptocurrency

  • Interview: Teaching Bitcoin With @AnilSaidSo

    Interview: Teaching Bitcoin With @AnilSaidSo

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast This week on the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” host Christian Keroles sat down with Anil (@AnilSaidSo on Twitter) to discuss his amazing Bitcoin educational content. Anil has made a name for himself in the Bitcoin community because of his informative and simple distillations of very complex and…

  • Decoding The “Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture,” A Cypherpunk Chronometer

    Decoding The “Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture,” A Cypherpunk Chronometer

    Bidding for the artwork covered in this story will be open during a 24-hour, bitcoin-only auction on February 5, 2021 at 3:33 p.m. EST. The Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture is a cypherpunk chronometer, designed to work as a fully-functioning bitcoin full node and block explorer. Modeled after the ancient navigation tool, the astrolabe, it acts…

  • Gemini Launches Interest-Earning Program For Bitcoin

    Today, cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has launched an interest-earning program called Gemini Earn for select customers. With it, users can receive up to 7.4 percent annual percentage yield (APY) on the bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies they hold in their Gemini accounts.  In a release shared with Bitcoin Magazine, Gemini called the program the first cryptocurrency-based, interest-earning…

  • US Resident Operated Illegal Bitcoin Exchange Business – Faces 25 Years in Jail

    US Resident Operated Illegal Bitcoin Exchange Business – Faces 25 Years in Jail

    An Ontario man based in San Bernardino County of the U.S. has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of illegally operating a bitcoin to cash exchange business. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the man, Hugo Sergio Mejia, 49, operated the unregistered exchange business between May 2018 and September 2020. Accordingly, Mejia…

  • Interview: Alejandro De La Torre On Hash Rate-Backed Tokens And Taproot

    Interview: Alejandro De La Torre On Hash Rate-Backed Tokens And Taproot

    Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google This episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Bitcoin In Asia” featured Alejandro De La Torre, vice president at Poolin. De La Torre and Poolin are managing taprootactivation.com to improve on the communication and transparency of the Taproot activation process specifically. Poolin has also recently launched a live-traded, hash rate-backed token,…

  • Elon Musk: “I Am A Supporter Of Bitcoin”

    Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, has publicly confirmed that he has taken the orange pill.  Last week, he added “#Bitcoin” to his Twitter description and set Bitcoin Twitter off on an eruption of good vibes. Now, he has publicly voiced his support for Bitcoin on audio chat app Clubhouse. Late last night,…

  • Marathon Patent Group To Receive 4,000 New Bitcoin Mining Rigs From Bitmain

    This morning, Marathon announced that a shipment of 4,000 new Antiminer S-19 Pro Bitmain miners are en route to its mining facility in Hardin, MT. This is the first of many shipments that Marathon has scheduled for 2021 which will fulfill its order for more than 103,000 additional miners from Bitmain, according to a release…

  • Bitcoin 2021 Is Moving To Miami

    We have heard from the community loud and clear: Bitcoin 2021 has to happen, and it has to be in person. We were building an incredible experience in Los Angeles, and we were pumped to show you everything that we had in store but ultimately, the uncertainty around Los Angeles in the post-COVID world made…

  • r/WallSteetBets Has Exposed The Game, But Bitcoin Is A Contender

    The financial space is a juicy island ruled by a few to serve their own interests, tightly controlled to stay as is. That we already know, and it is more or less commonly accepted, even though we don’t see or acknowledge the mechanisms that are used to keep it this way. What the Reddit community…

  • NFL Player Gets a Myriad of Celebrities to Add the Bitcoin Hashtag to Their Twitter Profiles

    NFL Player Gets a Myriad of Celebrities to Add the Bitcoin Hashtag to Their Twitter Profiles

    Following the day the Tesla founder, Elon Musk, added the Bitcoin hashtag to his Twitter profile, the popular Carolina Panthers offensive tackle, Russell Okung told his social media followers to put the Bitcoin hashtag in their bio. Okung has managed to get hundreds of people to do it, but more recently the NFL player started…