Kyle Torpey

Kyle Torpey
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Kyle Torpey is a freelance writer and researcher who has been following Bitcoin since 2011. His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard, Business Insider, NASDAQ, New York Post,The Next Web, American Banker, and other media outlets. You can view all his work at kyletorpey.com or sign up for his personal newsletter.

Circle Still Uses Bitcoin — But Is Also Building on Ethereum

Circle Chief Evangelist Anders Brownworth, who previously taught blockchain technology at MIT, gave a presentation on day two of the 2017 MIT Bitcoin Expo in which he mainly focused...

Something Odd Is Happening at Bitcoin’s Largest Mining Pool

Blocks on the Bitcoin network have been increasingly full lately, except for some of the ones mined by AntPool, which is the largest mining pool on the network. In...

Bitcoin’s Capacity Increase from Segregated Witness Could Kick in Fast

Segregated Witness (SegWit) is a proposed soft-forking change to the Bitcoin protocol that, among other things, increases capacity of the network. In addition to an estimated doubling of the...

Blockchain Capital Lures Bitcoin Analyst Away from Wall Street Firm

Blockchain Capital, one of the most prolific investment companies in the Bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem, has hired Spencer Bogart to take over as managing director and head of research....

Review: Cryptosteel Is a Great Way to Back Up Bitcoin Private Keys

Cryptosteel is a device that allows bitcoin holders to back up their private keys in a fireproof, waterproof and shockproof manner. The idea is that the Cryptosteel will be...

CHBTC Is Now the World’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange by Volume, But It’s Unlikely to Last

CHBTC has become the world’s largest bitcoin exchange when measured by volume in the aftermath of other China-based exchanges removing their no-fee trading policies. At this time, CHBTC has...

Man Accidentally Makes $1.3 Million Buying a House With Bitcoin

One of the main issues with bitcoin from a mainstream adoption perspective is price volatility, but a man in California recently benefited from short-term bitcoin price volatility in a...

Bitcoin’s Network Hash Rate Has Doubled Since October

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty increased by 16.6 percent over the weekend, signaling that the network’s overall hash rate has also increased by a similar amount over the past two weeks....

Decline in Empty Blocks Has Increased Bitcoin’s Transaction Capacity

Empty blocks have turned into a controversial topic in the Bitcoin community over the past few months. This renewed attention on the topic has been sparked by the number...

Why Financial Privacy Is About More Than Using Bitcoin to Buy Drugs on the Internet

When a random person on the street in the United States is asked about bitcoin, he or she will usually respond that it is some sort of internet currency...

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