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Namcios

Namcios is a writer and reporter at Bitcoin Magazine covering relevant news and developments in Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin is ultimately an open-source software code run by nodes and computers.
Technical

What Is BIP 119 And Why Did It Fuel Such Heated Discussions In Bitcoin?

By NamciosMay 20, 2022
Feature
Jack Dorsey's Block Bitcoin Initiatives - Blockchain Height
Business

Jack Dorsey’s Block Wants To Create Economic Empowerment With Bitcoin

By NamciosMay 18, 2022
News
Moon Luna
Markets

Luna Foundation Sold 80,000 Bitcoin Amid UST Crash

By NamciosMay 16, 2022
News
Terra Luna
Markets

What Terra’s Collapse Teaches About ‘Crypto’ and Bitcoin

By NamciosMay 12, 2022
Feature
Bitcoin gold coin
Markets

Bitcoin Plunges To Lowest Level Since January 2021

By NamciosMay 11, 2022
Feature
Michael Saylor
Business

MicroStrategy Will Never Sell Its Bitcoin, Saylor Suggests

By NamciosMay 10, 2022
News
Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has invested $250 million dollars into bitcoin, accumulating about 0.1 percent of the total supply.
Markets

MicroStrategy Goes Underwater In Latest Bitcoin Crash

By NamciosMay 9, 2022
News
“At the very least, the IRS should heed Portugal’s prudent policy and treat cryptocurrency transactions like typical currency transfers.”
Business

House Sold In Portugal For 3 Bitcoin In Country’s First-Ever Direct Transaction

By NamciosMay 6, 2022
News
As the Bitcoin hash rate approaches 100 EH/s, it’s important to look at the relationship between the hash rate, price, halving and security.
Markets

Bitcoin Is Halfway To The Next Halving

By NamciosMay 5, 2022
News
Federal Reserve Board Building
Markets

Bitcoin Touches $40,000 As Fed Raises Rates In Biggest Hike In 20 Years

By NamciosMay 4, 2022
News
Transacting in bitcoin will send it to the moon because of its price action and business usage.
Business

Hoseki Partners With Ledn For Easy Proof Of Ownership In Bitcoin-Backed Loans

By NamciosMay 2, 2022
News
A super PAC established for 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, an outspoken proponent of bitcoin, accepts Lightning Network donations.
Business

Synonym Launches Blocktank Service Provider For Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

By NamciosApr 29, 2022
News
Investing - Goldman Sachs Could Have a Crypto Custody Service in the Works
Business

Goldman Sachs Offers Its First Bitcoin-Backed Loan: Report

By NamciosApr 28, 2022
News
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Business

Panama Assembly Passes Bill Regulating Bitcoin, Crypto

By NamciosApr 28, 2022
News
Regulation - Russian Real Estate Firm Experiments With Selling a Luxury Mansion for Bitcoin
Business

Dubai Real Estate Giant To Accept Bitcoin As Payment

By NamciosApr 28, 2022
News
Bills preload image BTC
Business

Bitrefill Now Lets You Pay Your Bills, Taxes With Bitcoin

By NamciosApr 28, 2022
News
Mining - Bitcoin’s Network Hash Rate Has Doubled Since October
Markets

Bitcoin Hash Rate, Mining Difficulty Hit New All-Time Highs

By NamciosApr 28, 2022
News
Bitcoin is often rendered as a gold coin or casascius coin
Business

The Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin As Legal Tender

By NamciosApr 27, 2022
News
The Human Rights Foundation has launched a fund to support development that makes Bitcoin more private. To start, $50,000 will go to the developer of CoinSwap.
Business

Human Rights Foundation Grants 5 BTC To Bitcoin Projects

By NamciosApr 26, 2022
News
A recent report from financial services giant Fidelity captures Bitcoin as an asset class of its own, but fails to recognize its true potential.
Business

Fidelity To Allow Bitcoin Investments In Retirement Plans

By NamciosApr 26, 2022
News
As Taproot, the latest consensus protocol change, approaches activation, Bitcoin developers are asking how exactly the network should be upgraded.
Technical

Bitcoin Core 23.0 Released: What’s New

By NamciosApr 25, 2022
Feature
Bitcoin magazine is creating a Ukraine division to bring sound money to the area.
Markets

Ukraine Bans Bitcoin Purchases With National Currency Amid Martial Law

By NamciosApr 22, 2022
News
Mexican football soccer team Tigres now accepts bitcoin payments for match tickets
Business

Mexican Football Club Tigres Now Accepts Bitcoin For Tickets

By NamciosApr 21, 2022
News
While many see tensions between the U.S. and China as the driving factor behind the bitcoin price surge, whales may be leveraging the upward momentum.
Markets

Australia’s First Spot Bitcoin ETF To Launch Next Week

By NamciosApr 20, 2022
News
Adoption - In the Race for a Bitcoin ETF
Markets

Australia’s First Bitcoin ETF To List Next Week: Report

By NamciosApr 19, 2022
News
Op-ed - Snapcard CEO: 2016 Will Be a Humongous Year for Bitcoin in Brazil
Markets

Brazil Is Now One Step Closer To Regulating Bitcoin

By NamciosApr 13, 2022
News
Bitcoin Lightning Network has dual channels and competing implementations of two or more.
Technical

Core Lightning: How Blockstream’s Implementation Rebrand Speaks To Its Long-Term Vision For Bitcoin

By NamciosApr 13, 2022
Feature
Printing money from the Federal Reserve causes inflation, and bitcoin fixes this.
Markets

Bitcoin Price Nears $41,000 as U.S. Inflation Jumps to 8.5%

By NamciosApr 12, 2022
News
As surveillance efforts in our society intensify, Bitcoin offers a pseudonymous, even potentially anonymous, lifeline for privacy.
Technical

Federated Chaumian Mints: The Future of Bitcoin Privacy?

By NamciosApr 8, 2022
News
Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino talks about the challenges and expectations for the exchange’s recent integration of Lightning Network deposits and withdrawals.
Technical

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Not Private, Yet

By NamciosApr 8, 2022
News
Knapsack mixing offers efficiency and privacy improvements over equal-amount bitcoin mixing.
Technical

How CoinJoin, CoinSwap Enable Basic Bitcoin Privacy

By NamciosApr 8, 2022
News
Op Ed: In China, It’s Blockchain and Tyranny vs Bitcoin and Freedom
Culture

Yeonmi Park, Political Activists On How Bitcoin Enables Freedom

By NamciosApr 7, 2022
News
Bitcoin Optech was founded in 2018 to bridge the worlds of open-source development and companies.
Technical

Are There Downsides To Bitcoin Soft Fork Upgrades?

By NamciosApr 7, 2022
News
Bitcoin’s iconic logo is known the world over. But there's more to its design than meets the eye.
Culture

Nick Szabo: Bitcoin Secures Itself And Doesn't Ask For Permission

By NamciosApr 6, 2022
News
Payments - Hyperloop: A New Concept by Lightning Aiming to Solve Liquidity Problems
Technical

What Implementation of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Should You Pick?

By NamciosApr 6, 2022
News
River Financial doesn’t want to be just another exchange: It wants to be the world’s first Bitcoin financial institution.
Business

River Financial Announces Managed Bitcoin Mining Product

By NamciosApr 5, 2022
News
As Taproot, the latest consensus protocol change, approaches activation, Bitcoin developers are asking how exactly the network should be upgraded.
Technical

How Taro Brings Assets To Bitcoin Through Taproot And Lightning

By NamciosApr 5, 2022
Feature
Payments - Hyperloop: A New Concept by Lightning Aiming to Solve Liquidity Problems
Business

Lightning Labs Announces $70 Million Series B Raise

By NamciosApr 5, 2022
News
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Business

Intel Launches New Bitcoin Mining Chip, Blockscale

By NamciosApr 4, 2022
News
Mining - Bitcoin’s Network Hash Rate Has Doubled Since October
Markets

The 19 Millionth Bitcoin Has Been Mined: Why It Matters

By NamciosApr 1, 2022
News
Regulation - Report: Cryptocurrencies Should Be Governed by Current EU Financial Laws
Markets

EU Parliament Votes For Bitcoin Privacy-Busting Rules

By NamciosMar 31, 2022
News
Investing - Kraken Advances U.K. Expansion With the Acquisition of Futures Platform
Business

Kraken Exchange Integrates Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

By NamciosMar 31, 2022
News
With 40 million tons of e-waste generated each year, the unique incentives created by bitcoin miners offer a solution to a growing problem.
Business

Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Signs 200-MW Power Agreement

By NamciosMar 31, 2022
News
Bitcoin mining relies on a system called proof of work.
Markets

Greenpeace, Ripple Lobby to Move Bitcoin Away From Proof-of-Work

By NamciosMar 29, 2022
News
Law & justice - Tether Partly Backed by Bitcoin
Business

USDT Pilot Brings Tokens To Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

By NamciosMar 25, 2022
News
Chinese regulators in Inner Mongolia have issued a notice calling for a stop to bitcoin mining operations in the region.
Business

After Buying $500 Million Of Bitcoin, What Will Luna Do With It?

By NamciosMar 25, 2022
Feature
With its rapid bitcoin miner deployment at North Dakota operations, Great American Mining shows Bitcoin’s potential to solve energy crises.
Business

Exxon Is Mining Bitcoin With Excess Gas: Report

By NamciosMar 24, 2022
News
Adoption - Russia's Crypto-Winter Shows Signs of a Thaw in Saint Petersburg
Markets

Russia Is Open To Selling Natural Gas For Bitcoin

By NamciosMar 24, 2022
News
A non-profit project is establishing micro Bitcoin economies in villages in Peru to grant financial opportunity to unbanked communities.
Culture

Bitcoin Is Empowering Marginalized Communities In Peru

By NamciosMar 24, 2022
Feature
Adoption & community - From Wall Street to Bitcoin
Business

Wall Street Bank Cowen To Offer Spot Bitcoin Trading

By NamciosMar 23, 2022
News