The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…
Why the crypto world needs to build an…
When Satoshi Nakamoto released the whitepaper for Bitcoin, his vision was simple: Creating a form of electronic cash that enables payments to be sent without a bank’s involvement. Few could have anticipated how popular the cryptocurrency…
Bitcoin Miners Strain Under Semiconductor Supply Crunch, Second-Hand…
Bitcoin mining rig manufacturers are dealing with a semiconductor supply crunch according to regional reports stemming from China. There’s been a global semiconductor supply shortage and it’s affecting nearly every type of business in the…
Bitcoin gets physical: Art or digital heresy?
Since 2011, a group of enthusiasts and collectors have been obsessed with the physical manifestation of Bitcoin. On the face of it, physical Bitcoin seems like a contradiction to the key terms that define it,…
Mark Cuban: Crypto ‘Exactly’ Like Dot-Com Bubble —…
Billionaire Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban sees cryptocurrency “exactly” like the dot-com bubble. He says bitcoin and a few other cryptocurrencies are analogous to those dot-com stocks, like Amazon and Ebay, that survived the bubble…
Analysts say Bitcoin price drop to $30K was…
The euphoria in the cryptocurrency market was quelled on Jan.11 as the majority of altcoins saw their prices decline by more than 20% as Bitcoin price sold off sharply. After falling below the $40,000 support…
Coinsbee Lets You Buy Gift Cards for More…
Coinsbee is a platform for buying gift cards with more than 50 cryptos from all your favorite brands and shops, as well as get payment cards and phone top-ups. You can use it to purchase…
Bitcoin’s Rise Causes Shortage of Mining Rigs, Most…
While the bitcoin economy has swelled in value, the overall network hashrate has gradually climbed higher as miners are making a lot of money confirming blocks. However, obtaining bitcoin mining rigs isn’t so easy these…
Last Month Casascius Owners Redeemed the Highest Number…
On November 30, 2020, bitcoin crossed an all-time price high on a few global exchanges and between spot and derivatives markets there’s been a lot of action. One metric people didn’t notice was the fact…
Bitcoin And Crypto Black Friday 2020 Deals And…
Today is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, also known as Black Friday – a day when retailers everywhere offer the year’s best deals and discounts. The day is no different in the…
How DeFi can improve the e-commerce sector
Decentralized finance and shopping seem like an unusual combination at first. How can liquidity pools help you save money at the till? But scratch a little deeper and some compelling use cases for DeFi emerge.…
S9 Resurrection: Higher Bitcoin Prices Allow Miners to…
With bitcoin prices hovering over a certain handle, a great number of old ASIC mining rigs manufactured years ago are starting to become profitable again. Reports indicate that in China, where the average electricity cost…
StormX Unveils New $1,000 Rewards Program
The popular crypto cashback platform, StormX is now offering users up to $1,000 in rewards for each new person they invite to the platform in its newly introduced referral program. StormX users now have more…
First Mover: Bitcoin Steady as Trump Tweets and…
Chinese tech companies were once seen as copycats of their Western peers: Alibaba was a knockoff of eBay and Baidu imitated Google. More recently, Chinese firms like TikTok and Huawei have established such dominant international…
First Mover: Bitcoin Steady as Trump Tweets, and…
Chinese tech companies were once seen as copycats of their Western peers: Alibaba was a knockoff of eBay and Baidu imitated Google. More recently, Chinese firms like TikTok and Huawei have established such dominant international…
Amid US-China Tech War, Can Neo’s DeFi Stack…
Chinese tech companies were once seen as copycats of their Western peers: Alibaba was a knockoff of eBay and Baidu imitated Google. More recently, Chinese firms like TikTok and Huawei have established such dominant international…
The Long and Winding Story of Silk Road,…
This article originally appeared in Bitcoin Magazine‘s 10th anniversary print edition. Silk Road, the online marketplace named for the historic network of trade routes established during the Han Dynasty, went live in February 2011. Its…
How Do Blockchain Projects Cultivate a Star-like Following?
Some crypto projects fail to lift off. Others generate enormous traction and turn into industry’s rock stars. How do they do it? Leading crypto start-ups don’t get into community-building for the warm, fuzzy feelings. They…
Ecological Sanity Is Compatible With Human Freedom
In the early days, Bitcoin proposed a simple model of how the world could be transformed: The free market was going to produce inflation-proof money with strong privacy features, which could be used to avoid…
The Bitcoiners Who Live ‘Permanently Not There’
Katie Ananina is building her citadel, and selling others on the dream. For the past year, the Russian emigre has jumped among the U.S. cities of Miami, Houston, San Francisco and Denver, plus Puerto Rico,…
$424 Million and Numismatic Value: There’s Only 20,000…
For many years now physical bitcoins have been a very popular trend, but one specific type called the Casascius physical bitcoin collection has intrigued people for years. Last December, someone redeemed a 100 BTC Casascius…
The COVID-19 E-Commerce Boom Hasn’t Trickled Down to…
Despite the COVID-19 e-commerce boom, bitcoin is hardly seeing more merchant usage as a transactional currency than it was five years ago. “We’ve been doing this for six years and it’s still very rough around…
Why Binance.com.au is Now Delivering Flowers
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has lost a dispute over the domain name ‘binance.com.au’ to an Australian florist trading under the name Binancé. On June 17, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) denied a complaint filed…
21 Million BTC: How PayPal Active Users Underscores…
An over 300 million active register accounts on PayPal highlights just how important digital scarcity is to Bitcoin’s value. The enormous installed userbase suddenly having access to cryptocurrencies could be a major boost to adoption.…
‘Risky’ Tokenized Real Estate Platform Hits New Heights…
U.S. tokenized real estate platform RealT hit record highs in sales and new users after it turned to crypto-only transactions, following a ban by payments platform Paypal in April. The Ethereum-based startup tokenizes and sells…
Blockchain Bites: Hyperledger Makes Inroads, Bitcoin Gets ‘Harder’…
There's a lot of action happening in enterprise-grade blockchains. Big Blue's preferred chain, Hyperledger, is being tapped by three energy grid operators, a new consortium to establish digital identities for public and private organizations and…